Karlheinz Stockhausen
Stockhausen was a young man during the war.  He trained to be a teacher and was sent to work in a military hospital near where the army was.  His father died fighting in the war.  After the war, with no parents, he went to work on a farm.  Then, in 1947, he went to study at the Cologne Musikhochschule.  He played the piano in bars and clubs and he improvised at the piano when playing for a magician’s magic shows.  He was thinking of becoming a writer.