Last Saturday's interesting melange included Ernst Toch, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Richard Yardumian and a brief excerpt from a new `` space '' opera by the Swedish composer, Karl-Birger Blomdahl.

Karlheinz Stockhausen in the Electronic Music Studio of the Westdeutscher Rundfunk | WDR, October 1994

Yet conflicts between the so-called Darmstadt school, which included composers like Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Karel Goeyvaerts, Luciano Berio and Gottfried Michael Koenig, soon arose, receiving explicit expression in Adorno's 1954 lecture, " The Aging of the New Music ", where he argued that atonality's freedom was being restricted to serialism in much the same way as it was once restricted by twelve-tone technique.

* Karlheinz Stockhausen

* August 22 – Karlheinz Stockhausen, German composer ( d. 2007 )

* 1981: Donnerstag aus Licht by Karlheinz Stockhausen

* 1984: Samstag aus Licht by Karlheinz Stockhausen

* 1988: Montag aus Licht by Karlheinz Stockhausen

Edgar Froese's guitar style was inspired by Jimi Hendrix, while Chris Franke contributed the more avant garde elements of Karlheinz Stockhausen and Terry Riley.

Momente ( 1962 – 64 / 1969 ), one of the most important works of Karlheinz Stockhausen, is often described as a cantata.

* Pole ( Stockhausen ) a 1970 composition by Karlheinz Stockhausen

A large number of avant-garde composers have attended and given lectures there, including Olivier Messiaen, Luciano Berio, Milton Babbitt, Pierre Boulez, Luigi Nono, John Cage, György Ligeti, Iannis Xenakis, Boris Porena, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Mauricio Kagel.

* Karlheinz Stockhausen: Vibra-Elufa, for vibraphone ; Strahlen, for vibraphone ( optionally with glockenspiel ) and ten-channel electronic music ( 2002 )

Karlheinz Stockhausen notates the use of the wah-wah mute in his Punkte ( 1952 / 1962 ) in terms of transitions between open to close using open and closed circles connected by a line ( Erickson 1975, p. 73 ).

* Donnerstag aus Licht ( Thursday from Light ) is an opera by Karlheinz Stockhausen.

By the middle decades of the 20th century, composers like Henry Cowell, Earle Brown, David Tudor, La Monte Young, Jackson Mac Low, Morton Feldman, Sylvano Bussotti, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and George Crumb, re-introduced improvisation to classical music, with compositions that allowed or even required musicians to improvise.

Karlheinz Stockhausen was one of the first, with Stimmung in 1968.

Karlheinz Stockhausen dedicated his Klavierstück VI ( 1955 ) to Tudor.

His mature works, using Arnold Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique, have a textural clarity and emotional coolness which greatly influenced composers at Darmstadt, such as Pierre Boulez, Luigi Nono, and Karlheinz Stockhausen.

Boulez was in contact with many composers who would become influential, including John Cage and Karlheinz Stockhausen.

Starting with such early pioneers as Luigi Russolo, Pierre Schaeffer, Pierre Henry, Edgard Varèse, Karlheinz Stockhausen and others, music technology has been and is being used in many modernist and contemporary experimental music situations to create new sound possibilities.

* Karlheinz Stockhausen

Some avant-garde composers of the 20th century include Arnold Schoenberg, Charles Ives, Igor Stravinsky, Harry Partch, Olivier Messiaen, Elliott Carter, John Cage, and Karlheinz Stockhausen.

* July 11 – July 22 – The Darmstädter Ferienkurse are held in Darmstadt with a series of lectures by Theodor W. Adorno, two public discussions of the new medium of electronic music, and world premieres of works by ( amongst others ) Richard Rodney Bennett, Pierre Boulez, Jacques Calonne, Aldo Clementi, Luc Ferrari, Alexander Goehr, Bengt Hambraeus, Hans Werner Henze, Bruno Maderna, Henri Pousseur, and Karlheinz Stockhausen.

On 22 August 2012 the Company performed the world premiere of Karlheinz Stockhausen's Mittwoch aus Licht, the last opera of the Licht cycle to be staged, as part of the London 2012 Festival.

* August 25 – September 5 – Darmstädter Ferienkurse held in Darmstadt, with lectures by Włodzimierz Kotoński, György Ligeti, Andrzej Markowski, Yoritsune Matsudaira, Werner Meyer-Eppler, Luigi Nono, Henri Pousseur, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Bo Wallner, and world premieres of Claude Baillif's Mouvements pour deux, Sylvano Bussotti's Piano Pieces for David Tudor, Cornelius Cardew's Two Books of Study for Pianists and Piano Piece 1959, Niccolo Castiglioni's Cangiati per pianoforte, Roman Haubenstock-Ramati's Interpolation: Mobile pour flûte, Mauricio Kagel's Transición II, Angelo Paccagnini's Canti brevi: secondo libro, and Stockhausen's Zyklus.

Karlheinz Essl ( born August 15, 1960 ) is an Austrian composer, performer, sound artist, improviser and composition teacher.

* 1928 – Karlheinz Böhm, Austrian actor

Karlheinz Zöller ( 1928 – July 29, 2005 ) was a German flutist, and principal in the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra between 1960 – 1969 and 1976 – 1993.

Karlheinz Böhm ( sometimes Carl Boehm, and sometimes Karl Boehm ) ( born 16 March 1928 ) is an Austrian actor.

* 1950 – Karlheinz Subklewe, German footballer

* 1924 – Karlheinz Deschner, German researcher and writer

* 1934 – Karlheinz Schreiber, Canadian industrialist, lobbyist and arms dealer

* 2003 – Karlheinz Essl („ Gold. Berg. Werk “) for string trio and live-electronics

* Karlheinz Stockhausen's Zeitmaße for flute, oboe, clarinet, English horn and bassoon ( 1955 – 56 )

Other pupils included Karlheinz Stockhausen in 1952, Alexander Goehr in 1956 – 57, György Kurtág in 1957, Tristan Murail in 1967 – 72 and George Benjamin during the late 1970s.

Schneider's breakthrough came with her portrayal of Empress Elisabeth of Austria, in the romantic biopic Sissi ( 1955 ) and its two sequels, Sissi – The Young Empress ( 1956 ) and Sissi – Fateful Years of an Empress ( 1957 ), all with Karlheinz Böhm, who became a close friend.

Xenakis's compositions from 1949 – 52 were mostly inspired by Greek folk melodies, as well as Bartók, Ravel, and others ; after studying with Messiaen, he discovered serialism and gained a deep understanding of contemporary music ( Messiaen's other pupils at the time included, for example, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Jean Barraqué ).

* November 15 – Musik für die Beethovenhalle in Bonn, a multi-auditorium retrospective concert of the music of Karlheinz Stockhausen, with the world premiere of his Fresco presented in four different foyer spaces continuously over a span of four-and-a-half hours.

* March 1 – American premiere of Karlheinz Stockhausen's Momente, by Martina Arroyo ( soprano ), the Crane Collegiate Singers of SUNY Potsdam ( Brock McElheran, chorus master ), and members of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra ( Lukas Foss, music director ), conducted by the composer, in Kleinhans Music Hall in Buffalo, New York.

* October 31 – The original version of Karlheinz Stockhausen's Jahreslauf is premièred at the National Theatre of Japan in Chiyoda, Tokyo, by the Imperial Gagaku Ensemble.

Simultaneous playing of tape loops to create phase patterns and rhythms was developed and initially used by musique concrète and tape music composers, and was most extensively utilized by Steve Reich for his " phasing " pieces such as " Come Out " ( 1966 ) and " It's Gonna Rain " ( 1965 ), and by Karlheinz Stockhausen in Gesang der Jünglinge ( 1955 – 56 ) and Kontakte ( 1958 – 60 ).