The Darmstadt School refers most commonly to the composers who attended the summer courses in new music in Darmstadt, Germany, in the early 1950s, and who wrote music in the style known as serialism . Some of the principal composers associated with the school are Boulez , Stockhausen, and Nono.
In 1945, at the end of World War II and amid the warravaged ruins of Darmstadt, the critic Wolfgang Steinecke (1910–61), asked the city authorities for housing in order...