Last week, at the age of 79, composer and great inventor of electronic music, Karlheinz Stockhausen has passed away. He was born in a small village in Germany, and started to learn music when he was 7. His career was extremely successful but controversial - he was the most famous composer of the so-called contemporary music which was often described as leaving the audience completely. In contrary, Stockhausen had the greatest influence on lots of experimental pop musicians of the seventies who made the ground for 90s' and 2000s' electronic pop music.

One of his last public words on the terror attack of the WTC, 2001 caused serious scandal - he found some similarities between art and terror.

We took our picture from Wikipedia - if you want to read more check Stockhausen's article there.