What is Karlheinz Stockhausen?
{{unsourced|date=April 2016}} [[File:St. März 2005.jpg|thumb|Karlheinz Stockhausen (2005)]] '''Karlheinz Stockhausen''' (22 August 1928-5 December 2007) was a [[Germans|German]] composer. He was an important German [[composer]] in the years after [[World War II]]. During this time composers were exploring many new ideas. Stockhausen used [[serialism]] in new ways, and he invented many ways of composing [[electronic music]]. His works include an [[opera]] [[cycle]] ''Licht'' which includes seven operas.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Karlheinz Stockhausen {{!}} German composer|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Karlheinz-Stockhausen|access-date=2021-06-18|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en}}</ref> ==Life== Stockhausen was born near [[Cologne]]. His father was a village school teacher. His mother was put in a [[sanatarium]] in 1934 where she died in 1942. She was probably killed there because the [[Nazi]]s thought people who were mentally ill should not be allowed to live. Stockhausen was a young man during the war. He trained to be a teacher and was sent to work in a military hospital near where the [[army]] was. His father died fighting in the war. After the war, with no parents, he went to work on a [[farm]]. Then, in 1947, he went to study at the Cologne Musikhochschule. He played the [[piano]] in [[Bar (business)|bars]] and [[club]]s and he [[improvise]]d at the piano when playing for a [[magician]]’s magic shows. He was thinking of becoming a [[writer]]. At this time many of Germany’s important composers met every summer in [[Darmstadt]]. The course was called Darmstadt Holiday Course for New Music. Stockhausen went there in 1951. There he performed some modern music and met important people such as the [[music critic]] and [[philosopher]] [[Theodor Adorno]]. He heard the music of [[Messiaen]] and, soon after marrying, he went to [[Paris]] to study with Messiaen. In Paris he met [[Pierre Boulez]] and Pierre Schaeffer who was working on [[musique concrète]]. He experimented with different