Friedrich Gulda: Öffentliche Musikmeditation

Austrian pianist Friedrich Gulda was one of the most intriguing musical figures of the second half of the 20th century. He was piano prodigy, for whom the path towards a conventional career as virtuoso seemed pre-ordained. But Gulda was far from conventional, his musical appetites far wider than such a career could satisfy. And in 1981 he initiated the Munich Klaviersommer, in which he set out to explore his love for jazz, for musical experimentation and boundary-crossing. Few musical events capture that ethos more than this free-form “public music medition” from the festival’s first year, in which Gulda sings and performs on a variety of instruments.

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Friedrich Gulda (Piano)