OTHER children had teddy bears and dolls; but Karlheinz Stockhausen had a little wooden hammer. As he toddled round the run-down family farm in the hills near Cologne, he would hit things with it to ...

Reporting from BOCHUM, Germany — As a phenomenon, the 1960s, argues British critic D.J. Taylor in a recent issue of the Times Literary Supplement, have had “more significance extracted from them than ...

Karlheinz Stockhausen, one of the most important and controversial postwar composers who helped shape a new understanding of sound through his pioneering electronic compositions, died at his home in ...

In 1991, Karlheinz Stockhausen, the mystical showman of the musical avant-garde, was commissioned to write a string quartet for the Salzburg Festival. Being Stockhausen, he offered up the “Helicopter ...

Karlheinz Stockhausen has arguably done more to transform 20th- and 21st-century music than any other single composer: from serialism to electronic music, from consciousness-expanding musical ...

What do we mean when we say ‘opera’? Full-bodied women in viking helmets bellowing throatily with arms outstretched? Stuffed tuxedos in over-priced boxes braying bravos with champagne flowing? An ...

Karlheinz Stockhausen, who died today aged 79, was the leading pioneer of electronic music and of the new uses of physical space in the performance of music; he was regarded by many avant-garde ...

KARLHEINZ Stockhausen, who has died aged 79, was one of the great visionaries of 20th-century music. He was fond of quoting Blake's lines "He who kisses the joy as it flies, lives in Eternity's ...