Editing Karlheinz Stockhausen (section)

====Family and home====
[[File:St. im Garten Mai 2005 RGB.jpg|thumb|Stockhausen in the garden of his home in Kürten, 2005]]
On 29 December 1951, in Hamburg, Stockhausen married [[Doris Stockhausen|Doris Andreae]].{{sfn|Kurtz|1992|loc=45}}{{sfn|Maconie|2005|loc=47}} Together they had four children: Suja (b. 1953), Christel (b. 1956), [[Markus Stockhausen|Markus]] (b. 1957), and Majella (b. 1961).{{sfn|Kurtz|1992|loc=90}}{{sfn|Tannenbaum|1987|loc=94}} They were divorced in 1965.{{sfn|Rathert|2013}} On 3 April 1967, in San Francisco, he married [[Mary Bauermeister]], with whom he had two children: Julika (b. 22 January 1966) and [[Simon Stockhausen|Simon]] (b. 1967).{{sfn|Kurtz|1992|loc=141, 149}}{{sfn|Tannenbaum|1987|loc=95}} They were divorced in 1972.{{sfn|Rathert|2013}}<ref name=biography />

Four of Stockhausen's children became professional musicians,{{sfn|Kurtz|1992|loc=202}} and he composed some of his works specifically for them. A large number of pieces for the trumpet—from ''[[Sirius (Stockhausen)|Sirius]]'' (1975–77) to the trumpet version of ''[[In Freundschaft]]'' (1997)—were composed for and premièred by his son Markus.{{sfn|Kurtz|1992|loc=208}}{{sfn|M. Stockhausen|1998|loc=13–16}}{{sfn|Tannenbaum|1987|loc=61}} Markus, at the age of 4 years, had performed the part of The Child in the Cologne première of ''[[Originale]]'', alternating performances with his sister Christel.{{sfn|Maconie|2005|loc=220}} ''Klavierstück XII'' and ''Klavierstück XIII'' (and their versions as scenes from the operas ''Donnerstag aus Licht'' and ''[[Samstag aus Licht]]'') were written for his daughter Majella, and were first performed by her at the ages of 16 and 20, respectively.{{sfn|Maconie|2005|loc=430, 443}}{{sfn|Stockhausen ''Texte''|loc=5:190, 255, 274}}{{sfn|Stockhausen ''Texte''|loc=6:64, 373}} The saxophone duet in the second act of ''Donnerstag aus Licht'', and a number of synthesizer parts in the ''Licht'' operas, including ''Klavierstück XV'' ("Synthi-Fou") from ''[[Dienstag aus Licht|Dienstag]]'', were composed for his son Simon,{{sfn|Kurtz|1992|loc=222}}{{sfn|Maconie|2005|loc=480, 489}}{{sfn|Stockhausen ''Texte''|loc=5:186, 529}} who also assisted his father in the production of the electronic music from ''[[Freitag aus Licht]]''. His daughter Christel is a flautist who performed and gave a course on interpretation of ''Tierkreis'' in 1977,{{sfn|Stockhausen ''Texte''|loc=5:105}} later published as an article.{{sfn|C. Stockhausen|1978}}

In 1961, Stockhausen acquired a parcel of land in the vicinity of [[Kürten]], a village east of Cologne, near [[Bergisch Gladbach]] in the [[Bergisches Land]]. He had a house built there, which was designed to his specifications by the architect Erich Schneider-Wessling, and he resided there from its completion in the autumn of 1965.{{sfn|Kurtz|1992|loc=116–117, 137–138}}