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Karlheinz Stockhausen, notorious German composer of aggressively weird anti-music, premiered his grandest creation yet when he died on Wednesday at the age of 79.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/germany/article/0,,2224071,00.html

This has been a bad year for composers dying. Ligeti, Menotti, Morawetz, Khrennikov, Stockhausen...