Peter Pichler
Peter Pichler (born 1967) is a German musician, composer, and music producer. He specializes in playing the Trautonium, composes for this instrument, and performs live.
Life
Peter Pichler grew up in Munich and founded the Punk band Condom at the age of 14. The band's first single led to charges against him for "insulting the authorities," but due to his young age, he was only sentenced to community service.[1] Pichler studied classical guitar and Renaissance lute at the Mozarteum Salzburg, the Leopold Mozart Conservatory Augsburg, and the Karlsruhe University of Music.[2]
He is a recipient of the Bavarian Arts Promotion Prize and the Music Scholarship of the City of Munich.[3]
In the 1990s, he toured Europe with his avant-garde pop band No Goods under the independent label Trikont.[4]
Trautonium
Peter Pichler had heard the sound of the Trautonium when he was a young man and was fascinated by its emotional impact and dynamic range. Pichler found he could not forget the unique sound; he searched obsessively for anyone who could help him understand the instrument and he finally tracked down Oskar Sala. In 1996 the two met in Sala's studio in Berlin, and the result was the preservation of much of Sala's knowledge.[citation needed]Pichler became aware of the Trautonium in 1988 and personally met the Trautonium player and co-developer Oskar Sala in 1996. He studied the instrument intensively to incorporate it into his music.[5]
Pichler was transformed by the experience but he had to wait fifteen years before he could afford to commission his own Mixturtrautonium from the company Trautoniks.[6] He wrote a musical theater piece about the fathers of the Trautonium, "Wiedersehen in Trautonien", which was performed at the German Museum in Munich, for the 100th birthday of Oskar Sala in 2010. }[7]
Since then, Pichler has been making regular appearances with the Mixturtrautonium in various musical genres. The classical music composed for this instrument by Paul Hindemith, Harald Genzmer and Oskar Sala, for instance, is extremely challenging for even an experienced musician to play.[citation needed][8]
Pichler is one of the very few musicians in the world who has mastered this instrument and is also composing for it.[9]
Selected Theater Works
2021: Die Verurteilung des Lukullus, Staatsoper Stuttgart
2024: Als lebten wir in einem barmherzigen Land, Münchner Kammerspiele
References
- ↑ Wagner, Dirk (2019-12-19). "Das wilde Leben der Punk-Pioniere". sueddeutsche.de (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2024-04-23.
- ↑ "Bio". peterpichler-trautonium.com (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2021-03-01.
- ↑ "Music Scholarships". muenchen.de (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2021-03-01.
- ↑ "NO GOODS". trikont.de (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2021-03-01.
- ↑ "Premiere "Als lebten wir in einem barmherzigen Land" – Peter Pichler und das Trautonium". merkur.de (in Deutsch). 26 January 2024. Retrieved 2024-03-16.
- ↑ JH. "Trautoniks Produkte". www.trautoniks.de. Retrieved 2018-03-21.
- ↑ "Wiedersehen in Trautonien" (PDF). 18 December 2023.
- ↑ CD booklet "Works for Trautonium by Harald Genzmer", published by Paladino Media, Vienna, 2017
- ↑ "English Menu". Peter Pichler - Trautonium (in Deutsch). Archived from the original on 2018-03-21. Retrieved 2018-03-21. Unknown parameter
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External links
- Official website
- Trautonium in film history on YouTube
- How does the Trautonium work? Peter Pichler explains on YouTube
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