This composer experimented with early forms of electronic music in works like Gesang der Jünglinge and with chance in his Klavierstücke series. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this experimental German composer known as the father of electronic music. His other works include Gruppen, Stimmung, and the “Helicopter Quartet.”
ANSWER: Karlheinz Stockhausen
[10h] Like Stockhausen, American composer Pauline Oliveros experimented with electronics and chance while studying in this city, and later at its Tape Music Center where she worked with composers like Steve Reich and Terry Riley.
ANSWER: San Francisco [or SF]
[10e] Stockhausen’s music was both admired and criticized by this composer who described his “alternation of note-clumps and silences” as monotonous. This Russian composer’s neoclassical period contrasted with his earlier works like The Rite of Spring.
ANSWER: Igor Stravinsky [or Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky]
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