Karlheinz Stockhausen

Germany, 1950–2007

Avant-garde composer and pioneer of electronic and aleatoric music.

Influenced by

• John Cage
• Olivier Messiaen
• Pierre Schaeffer
• Anton Webern

Influenced

• Eduard Artemiev
• Jean-Michel Jarre
• Björk
• Kraftwerk
• The Beatles
• Brian Eno
• Cabaret Voltaire
• Andrei Volkonsky
• Pink Floyd
• György Ligeti
• Tangerine Dream
• Can
• Faust
• Klaus Schulze
• Cornelius Cardew
• Throbbing Gristle
• Delia Derbyshire
• Else Marie Pade
• Conrad Schnitzler