Jonny Teupen
Jonny Teupen (born January 9, 1923 in Berlin ; † August 17, 1991 in Cologne ) was a German harpist and composer of modern jazz and easy listening . He also worked under the pseudonym Jean-Pierre Valmer .
Live and act
Teupen studied with Max Saal at the Academic University of Music Berlin . After stints at the Theater des Volkes and the State Opera Unter den Linden , he moved to the NWDR in 1949 , where he became the solo harpist of what is now the WDR Rundfunkorchester Köln , of which he was a member until 1985. He was also heard in WDR productions with Paul Kuhn and Helmut Zacharias . The musical short film Young Man with a Harp was built around him in 1961 . He recorded several jazz-oriented albums under his own name (especially for MPS ) and also composed for the film ( Mini Killers , 1969). In the 1960s and early 1970s he was known in Germany as "Harpist No. 1".
Trivia
Jonny Teupen had Daimler-Benz built a custom-made car with an oversized trunk to transport his harp.
Discographic notes
- Johnny Teupen and his magic harp (with Paul Kuhn, Ferdinand Klein, Werner Brock)
- Play Harp (with Blanche Birdsong, Sahib Shihab , Francis Coppieters , Jimmy Woode , John Fischer , Kenny Clarke , Stuff Combe , 1966)
- Harpedelic (with Shake Keane , Jiggs Whigham , Dave Pike , Volker Kriegel , JA Rettenbacher , Charly Antolini , Günter-Kallmann-Chor , 1969)
- Harporhythm (with Karl Drewo , Jiggs Whigham, Milan Lulić, JA Rettenbacher, Cees See , Peter Thoms , 1971)
- Never Gonna Be a Sky-Scraper / Waltzing Harp (around 1971)
- Toots Thielemans / Jonny Teupen / Paul Kuhn Just Friends (with Ack van Rooyen , Jean Warland , Bruno Castellucci , 1986)
literature
- Andreas Vollberg: From Trizonesia to the Starlight era: popular music in North Rhine-Westphalia . Agenda Verlag, Münster 2003.
- Who Is Who in Germany . Volume 2, 2nd edition 1980.
- Jürgen Wölfer : Jazz in Germany. The encyclopedia. All musicians and record companies from 1920 until today. Hannibal, Höfen 2008, ISBN 978-3-85445-274-4 .
Web links
- Jonny Teupen in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Jonny Teupen at Discogs (English)
- Jonny Teupen at Allmusic (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ ARD program from August 30, 1961
- ↑ Tom Wohlert: Musician Makers Machos Mafiosi: From amateur musicians to the Cologne studio scene . 2010, p. 76.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Teupen, Jonny |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Teupen, Johann Wilhelm Bernard; Valmer, Jean-Pierre (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German harpist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 9, 1923 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th August 1991 |
| Place of death | Cologne |