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Karlheinz Stockhausen was a German composer and theorist who fundamentally reshaped postwar classical music through radical experimentation with electronic sound, spatial composition, and serialist technique. His works for synthesizer, tape, and orchestra rejected conventional harmonic structure in favor of granular control over timbre, duration, and spatial distribution of sound across multiple speakers and concert spaces. He developed innovative notation systems to represent his compositional ideas and established the electronic music studio at Cologne's West German Radio in the 1950s, influencing generations of avant-garde composers. His aesthetic extended to multimedia performance and conceptual frameworks that treated composition as a total artistic system.