Editing Karlheinz Stockhausen (section)

===Education===
From 1947 to 1951, Stockhausen studied music [[pedagogy]] and piano at the [[Hochschule für Musik Köln]] (Cologne Conservatory of Music) and [[musicology]], philosophy, and [[German studies]] at the [[University of Cologne]]. He had training in [[harmony]] and [[counterpoint]], the latter with [[Hermann Schroeder]], but he did not develop a real interest in [[Musical composition|composition]] until 1950. He was admitted at the end of that year to the class of Swiss composer [[Frank Martin (composer)|Frank Martin]], who had just begun a seven-year tenure in Cologne.{{sfn|Kurtz|1992|loc=28}} At the [[Darmstädter Ferienkurse]] in 1951, Stockhausen met Belgian composer [[Karel Goeyvaerts]], who had just completed studies with [[Olivier Messiaen]] (analysis) and [[Darius Milhaud]] (composition) in Paris, and Stockhausen resolved to do likewise.{{sfn|Kurtz|1992|loc=34–36}} He arrived in Paris on 8 January 1952 and began attending Messiaen's courses in aesthetics and analysis, as well as Milhaud's composition classes. He continued with Messiaen for a year, but he was disappointed with Milhaud and abandoned his lessons after a few weeks.{{sfn|Kurtz|1992|loc=45–48}} In March 1953, he left Paris to take up a position as assistant to [[Herbert Eimert]] at the newly established [[Studio for Electronic Music (WDR)|Electronic Music Studio]] of [[Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk]] (NWDR) (from 1 January 1955, [[Westdeutscher Rundfunk]], or WDR) in Cologne.{{sfn|Kurtz|1992|loc=56–57}} In 1963, he succeeded Eimert as director of the studio.{{sfn|Morawska-Büngeler|1988|loc=19}} From 1954 to 1956, he studied phonetics, acoustics, and information theory with [[Werner Meyer-Eppler]] at the [[University of Bonn]].{{sfn|Kurtz|1992|loc=68–72}} Together with Eimert, Stockhausen edited the journal ''[[Die Reihe]]'' from 1955 to 1962.{{sfn|Grant|2001|loc=1–2}}