Fritz Pauer
Fritz Pauer (born October 14, 1943 in Vienna ; † July 1, 2012 ) was an Austrian jazz pianist , band leader and composer .
Life
As a child, Pauer received classical piano training. He worked for Fatty George from 1960 and made his first record with Hans Koller in 1962 . In 1964 he moved to Berlin, where he met the trio of Joe Nay in the Jazz Gallery of Herb Geller as an accompanist of Art Farmer , Leo Wright , Carmell Jones , Don Byas , Gordon Dexter and other worked. In 1968 he went back to his hometown as a teacher at the newly established jazz department of the city of Vienna; there he played in Erich Kleinschuster's sextet and founded his own trio with Jimmy Woode and Erich Bachträgl . Pauer had been a member of the ORF Big Band since 1970 . After this orchestra was dissolved in 1982, he worked for two years as the director of the Swiss Jazz School in Bern . Since then he has lived in Zurndorf in Burgenland , but from 1984, over a period of 18 years, repeatedly retreated to a village of Indios in the Peruvian jungle , where he dealt with shamanism . After a period as a freelance artist, he was appointed to the Department of Jazz at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz in 1989, where he taught interpretation and accompaniment and was involved as a répétiteur in developing the jazz singing course.
Pauer played with George Gruntz and his Piano Conclave , with Ray Brown , Jay Clayton , Kurt Edelhagen's Big Band (for whom he also arranged in the early 1970s), Johnny Griffin , Sheila Jordan , Red Mitchell , Mark Murphy and Joe Zawinul . In the last decades he has accompanied international greats such as Eddie Lockjaw Davis , Harry Edison , Frank Rosolino , Albert Mangelsdorff , Benny Carter , Harry Allen , Warren Vaché , Attila Zoller , Chico Freeman , James Moody and Zipflo Weinrich in Vienna's Jazzland . Until his death he performed with his trio (Johannes Strasser b and Joris Dudli dm, or Steve Woods b and Howard Curtis dm), the singer Cornelia Giese , the Apollon string quartet , the group Polyphone-X and the lyricist and singer Laurie Antonioli on. He has also played solo concerts since 2004. Pauer is documented on numerous records and CDs, also under his own name. Friedrich Gulda recorded the LP Fata Morgana in 1971 with Pauer compositions.
Prizes and awards
In 1966, Pauer won the first prize in the piano category at the International Competition for Modern Jazz initiated by Gulda in Vienna, worth 400 pounds and an instrument of the artist's choice, where Zawinul was one of the jurors. He received the Golden Merit of the Republic of Austria in 2003; in 2004 and 2005 he was also nominated for the Hans Koller Prize . In 2008 he received the State Prize for Improvised Music . In 2009, in recognition of his musical work, he was awarded the 2008 Music Prize and the professional title of Professor . On April 4, 2013 a memorial concert for Fritz Pauer took place in the Musikverein in Vienna, in which exclusively his compositions by Sheila Cooper and Heidi Krenn voc, Daniel Nösig tp, Andy Middleton sax, Markus Gaudriot, Benjamin Schatz and Oliver Kent p, Karl Ratzer g, Hans Strasser b and Joris Dudli dm.
Web links
- Entry on Fritz Pauer in the Austria Forum (biography)
- Portrait in Der Standard , November 26, 2008
Obituaries
- Ljubiša Tošić: Jazz pianist Fritz Pauer has died , Standard , July 2, 2012
- Mourning for Fritz Pauer , University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, July 2, 2012
Individual evidence
- ^ Ron Simmonds : Berlin Newsletter ( Memento of November 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), 1966
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pauer, Fritz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pauer, Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian jazz pianist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 14, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna , Austria |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 1, 2012 |