David Stubbs’s new book, Future Sounds: The Story of Electronic Music From Stockhausen to Skrillex, depicts the electrification of music as a radical project—even a happily destructive one. The ...

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 ...

BERLIN -- Karlheinz Stockhausen, whose innovative electronic works made him one of the most important composers of the postwar era, has died at age 79. By The Associated Press BERLIN — Karlheinz ...

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

Musicologist and critic James Wierzbicki has titled his illuminating new book on American music of the 1950s “Music in the Age of Anxiety,” revealing a decade uncomfortably like our own. It was a time ...

Karlheinz Stockhausen has influenced everyone from the Beatles and Björk to American classical composers John Cage and Earle Brown. But the German composer, who reached the peak of his fame in the ...

Some iconoclastic artists eventually adapt to the system; others defy it; still others ignore it completely. Karlheinz Stockhausen was the rare composer who made institutions contort to fit his ...

BIRMINGHAM, England — Who would be crazy enough to write an opera called “Wednesday” and require for one scene that four noisy helicopters — real choppers like the ones that drive us to distraction at ...

BERLIN — Karlheinz Stockhausen, whose innovative electronic works made him one of the most important composers of the postwar era, has died at age 79. Stockhausen, who gained fame through his ...

Avant-garde composer Karlheinz Stockhausen died at his home in western Germany on Wednesday. He was 79. To the casual listener, a representative Stockhausen composition might not seem musical. But his ...