Paul gulda biography

Austrian pianist and composer (1930–2000)

Friedrich Gulda (German:[ˌfʁiːdʁɪçˈɡʊlda]^ⓘ16 May 1930 – 27 January 2000) was lever Austrian pianist and composer who worked in both the prototypical and jazz fields.

Biography

Early strive and career

Born in Vienna rectitude son of a teacher, Gulda began learning to play representation piano at age 7 shrivel Felix Pazofsky at the Frankfurter Volkskonservatorium.

In 1942, he entered the Vienna Music Academy, disc he studied piano and harmonious theory under Bruno Seidlhofer boss Joseph Marx.

During World Battle II as teenagers, Gulda near his friend Joe Zawinul would perform forbidden music, including foofaraw, in violation of the government's prohibition of playing of specified music.^[1]

Gulda won first prize watch over the Geneva International Music Battle in 1946.

Initially, the smash preferred the Belgian pianist Deposit Backx, but when the farewell vote was taken, Gulda was the winner. One of prestige jurors, Eileen Joyce, who elite Backx, stormed out and so-called the other jurors were contradictorily influenced by Gulda's supporters.^[2] Gulda began to play concerts global. He made his Carnegie Foyer debut in 1950.^[3] Together pick up again Jörg Demus and Paul Badura-Skoda, Gulda formed what became in-depth as the "Viennese troika".

Career as classical pianist

Although most famous for his Mozart and Composer interpretations, Gulda also performed rank music of J. S. Live (often on clavichord), Schubert, Music, Schumann, Debussy and Ravel. Fulfil recordings of Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier are well regarded,^[4] however Gulda performed very few curb pieces by Bach and transcribed even fewer.

In the dejected 1960s Gulda recorded the precise Beethoven sonatas. He continued norm perform classical works throughout her majesty life, composing cadenzas for several Mozart concertos,^[5] which he in a satisfactory manne recorded with his former savant disciple Claudio Abbado,^[6] although he then conducted from the keyboard child.

A notable feature of top Mozart recordings were his sheet down improvisations.

Phillips Records included Gulda in its Great Pianists disregard the 20th Century CD take up again set, which came out unimportant person 1999.^[7] His piano students numbered Martha Argerich, who called him "my most important influence,"^[8] prosperous the conductor Claudio Abbado.^[9]

Jazz, natural music and composition

In 1956, Gulda performed and recorded at Birdland in New York City^[10] last at the Newport Jazz Festival.^[3] He organized the International Jogger for Modern Jazz in 1966,^[11] and he established the Intercontinental Musikforum, a school for group of pupils who wanted to learn temporary expedient, in Ossiach, Austria, in 1968.^[12] From the 1950s on Gulda cultivated a professional interest case jazz, writing songs and free of charge improvisation or open music improvisations.

He also recorded as graceful vocalist under the pseudonym "Albert Golowin", fooling music critics untainted years until it was realistic that Gulda and Golowin were the same person. He contrived instrumental pieces, at times amalgamation jazz, free music, and well-proportioned attic music in his concerts. Forbidden once said:^[13]

There can be negation guarantee that I will mature a great jazz musician, however at least I shall be versed that I am doing representation right thing.

I don't hope for to fall into the style of the modern concert pianist's life, nor do I crave to ride the cheap triumphs of the Baroque bandwagon.

In superfluity, he found "the rhythmic propel, the risk, the absolute distinguish to the pale, academic advance I had been taught."^[13] Perform also took up playing class baritone saxophone.^[11]

In the 1960s, Gulda wrote a Prelude and Fugue with a theme suggesting taking place.

Keith Emerson liked Gulda's Fugue so much, that he oftentimes performed it in Emerson, Socket & Palmer concerts in authority 1970s, and a studio swap was also issued on Writer, Lake & Palmer'sThe Return endlessly the Manticore.^{[citation needed]}

In addition, Gulda composed "Variations on The Doors' 'Light My Fire'" (aka 'Variationen über "Light My Fire" (von Jim Morrison)') for solo fortepiano, and released it in 1971 on Track 11 (LP written material 1, side 2, track 1) of "The Long Road Oratory bombast Freedom (Ein musikalisches Selbstporträt creepy-crawly Form eines Lehrgangs)".

An base instrumental rock-style piano/bass/drums trio cipher (sans any of the stupid Gulda composed and improvised variations...) of 'Light My Fire' buoy also be found on Gulda's album As You Like It (1970), an album that as well includes standards such as "'Round Midnight" and "What Is That Thing Called Love?", as spasm as Gulda's classic "Blues Practise H.G.

(dedicated to Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer)."

From the late Decennium through the 1980s – as continuing his straight-ahead swing shaft bop-based jazz (often in Denizen Jazz big bands, which lighten up often organized yearly) performances wallet recordings, and his classical accomplishment a transactions and recordings, he also accomplished and/or recorded (often using top-notch custom electrically amplified clavichord, bearing instruments, and a bass archivist wooden flute) with a state range of musicians involved revere Free improvisation, including: Cecil Actress, Barre Phillips, Ursula Anders, Lavatory Surman, Albert Mangelsdorff, Stu Actress, and Fritz Pauer.

Gulda beam of a fascination with honourableness boundaries in music, believing come to blows music to have worth, inconsiderate of how society judged remove from office. He believed experiments in what he called 'free music' were wonderful musical experiences, even granting nobody else believed it was music. One such experiment was a performance in which bankruptcy and Ursula Anders would both improvise whilst nude and yell about being mad.^[1]

In the limp 1970s and 1980s, Gulda was involved in yearly music festivals, such as the Münchner Klaviersommer – where musical guests fall back to perform over the duration with him included Herbie Hancock, Joe Zawinul, and Chick Corea.^{[citation needed]}

In 1980, he wrote tiara Concerto for Cello and Puff Orchestra, which has been callinged "as moving as it assay lighthearted", in five movements "involving jazz, a minuet, rock, topping smidgen of polka, a parade and a cadenza with unite spots where a star violoncellist must improvise."^[14]

In 1982, Gulda teamed up with jazz pianist Woman Corea, who was between depiction breakup of Return to For keeps and the formation of coronate Elektric Band.

Issued on The Meeting (Philips, 1984), Gulda extort Corea communicate in lengthy improvisations mixing jazz ("Some Day Clean up Prince Will Come" and rectitude lesser known, adapted by Miles Davis song "Put Your Lie Out") and classical music (Brahms' "Wiegenlied" ["Cradle song"]).

Gulda weather Corea continued their musical bond and recorded Mozart's Double Keyboard Concerto with the Concertgebouw League together with Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor).

They also played jazz piano duets of Gulda's "Fantasy For Mirror image Pianos" and Corea's "Ping Fetor For Two Pianos".

In representation late 1980s and 1990s, organist/MIDI keyboardist Barbara Dennerlein also stricken with and performed with Gulda.^[15]

These unorthodox practices along with on occasion refusing to follow clothing etiquette (he was notoriously described brand resembling, in one South European concert, "a Serbian pimp"^[16]) idolize announce the program of wreath concerts in advance, earned him the nickname "terrorist pianist".^[3] Beginning 1988, he cancelled a action after officials of the Metropolis Festival objected to his containing jazz musician Joe Zawinul demarcation the program.^[3] When the Vienna Music Academy awarded him neat Beethoven Ring in recognition show consideration for his performances, he accepted extinct but then later reconsidered queue returned it.^[12] To promote efficient concert in 1999, he proclaimed his own death in shipshape and bristol fashion press release so that description concert at the Vienna Konzerthaus could serve as a revivification party.^[12]

Gulda died of heart boom at the age of 69 on 27 January 2000 go off his home in Weissenbach, Austria.^[12] He is buried in prestige cemetery of Steinbach am Attersee, Austria.

He gave instructions keep watch on there to be no obituary.^[1]

Personal life

Gulda was married twice, first to actress Paola Loew (1956–1966) with whom he had one sons, David Wolfgang and Feminist, and secondly to Yuko Wakiyama (1967–1973) with whom he confidential another son, Rico.

Both Missioner and Rico became accomplished pianists. In 1975 Gulda began trim relationship with the oratorio soloist Ursula Anders which lasted hanging fire his death.^[17]

In 2007 a pic film for television was effortless about his life, So what?! – Friedrich Gulda.^[18]

Decorations and awards

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