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Friedrich Gulda

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Born in Vienna as the son of a teacher, Gulda began learning to play the piano from Felix Pazofsky at the Wiener Volkskonservatorium, aged 7. In 1942, he entered the Vienna Music Academy, where he studied piano and musical theory under Bruno Seidlhofer and Joseph Marx. He won first prize at the Geneva International Music Competition in 1946. Initially, the jury preferred the Belgian pianist Lode Backx, but when the final vote was taken, Gulda was the winner. One of the jurors, Eileen Joyce, who favoured Backx, stormed out and claimed the other jurors were unfairly influenced by Gulda's supporters.[1] Gulda began to play concerts worldwide

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Returned to Forever: The Chick Corea's Songbook, Part 1

Read "Returned to Forever: The Chick Corea's Songbook, Part 1" reviewed by Ludovico Granvassu


We celebrate the legacy of the late Chick Corea with his countless recordings as a leader or sideman, a body of compositions that have already expanded the jazz canon and will continue to do so in the coming years. In this first part of the programme we'll focus in particular on his “Spanish Heart" and his ...

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Article: SoCal Jazz

Chick Corea: In The Present Tense

Read "Chick Corea: In The Present Tense" reviewed by Jim Worsley


This article was originally published at All About Jazz on November 12, 2020. RIP, Chick. What can you say about music icon Chick Corea that hasn't already been said? His past, his career has been honored, dissected, and revered. As it should be. A composer and pianist of unparalleled skills and accomplishments, Corea's place ...

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Article: Talkin' Blues

Talkin' Blues with Barbara Dennerlein

Read "Talkin' Blues with Barbara Dennerlein" reviewed by Alan Bryson


If there were a Guinness World Records prize for jazz artist with the biggest organ, it could very well go to Barbara Dennerlein. No doubt, her Hammond B3 was a disc-crushing bane for countless roadies over the past three decades, but a B3 pales in comparison to what she's been playing lately. Imagine five organs with ...

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Video

Light My Fire

Featuring the music of Friedrich Gulda
Duration: 8:03

Friedrich Gulda's variation on the Doors' classic, one of his most successful and most frequently played compositions.
Album

Fata Morgana - Live At The Domicile

Label: Pirouet
Released: 2003

Album

The Meeting

Label: Pirouet
Released: 1991

Album

Mozart No End And The Paradise Band

Label: Sony Music
Released: 1991
Track listing: Piano Concerto No. 26 In D Major, K. 537 "Coronation" - II. Larghetto; Fantasia For Piano In C Minor, K. 475; Piano Sonata No. 14 In C Minor, K. 457; Le Nozze Di Figaro, K. 492 - Recitativo And Aria: "Giunse Alfin Il Momento" - "Deh Vieni, Non Tardar"; Aria; Exercise 9; Stormy Weather Blues; Opus de Funk; For Paul; Du Und I; General Dance;

Album

Music For Two Pianos

Label: Pirouet
Released: 1988


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