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Twenty Minutes: Stockhausen

Stockhausen

02/08/2008

BBC Radio 3 - Twenty Minutes, Stockhausen

Tom Service talks to Stockhausen's associates to find out what marked him out as a pioneer

German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen was an avant-garde icon. Tom Service talks to Stockhausen's family, friends and collaborators to find out what marked him out as a pioneer.

German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, who died in December 2007, was an icon of the avant-garde. Tom Service talks to Stockhausen's family, friends and collaborators - including Pierre Boulez, his son Markus Stockhausen, comedian and writer John Bird and pianist Nicolas Hodges - to find out just what it was that marked him out as such a pioneering and influential figure in 20th and 21st century music.

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