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Karlheinz Stockhausen

German composer.

Born August 22nd, 1928 in Mödrath castle. [ref]

Died December 5th, 2007 at 79 years old in Kürten (heart failure). [ref]

Occupations
composer, music teacher, music theorist, musician, musicologist, university teacher

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forget life, to be at peace. Oscar Wilde