Who led the Cologne group that created electronically generated music?

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The studio for elektronische Musik in Cologne, Germany, was founded in 1951 by the composer Herbert Eimert and the acoustician Werner Meyer-Eppler, among others, under the auspices of the Northwest German Broadcasting Studio.12

While Eimert led the studio, he was soon joined by Karlheinz Stockhausen, who became a central figure in the group's work. Unlike the contemporary French school of musique concrète, which utilized natural sounds, the Cologne group focused on creating music from electronically generated sources, particularly by synthesizing complex tones from sine waveforms.231