MUSIClassical ALLEGRO
Topic: MILESTONESJun-Dec07
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 Germany. He was 79. Stockhausen, who gained fame through his avant-garde works in the 1960s and '70s and later composed works for huge theaters and other projects, died in the town of Kuerten on Wednesday, 5 DEC 2007, his publisher, the Stockhausen Verlag, said. No cause of death was given. 
