Peter Ratzenbeck
Peter Ratzenbeck (born October 10, 1955 in Graz ) is an Austrian guitarist , composer and music teacher .
Life
At the age of 16, Peter Ratzenbeck received his first guitar from a mail order company. He learned his first songs and the first guitar fingerings from his friend Xao Seffcheque from Graz , and Peter Ratzenbeck has remained an autodidact to this day . His secondary "music school" was the street, where in the 1970s he earned his living as a street musician in underpasses and on town squares in numerous cities in the Federal Republic of Germany , England , Scotland and Ireland . In 1976 Peter Ratzenbeck had his first public concert as a newcomer in Bregenz , a year later he was already playing in the main program. At this time the first record with 16 tracks was produced. At that time he was inspired by Leo Kottke on the twelve-string guitar , but also by pieces such as Angi by Davey Graham and Eleanor Rigby by Werner Lämmerhirt , with whom he also worked for a while and played the second guitar on stage.
Before Ratzenbeck began to appear more and more as a solo artist, he played with established greats in Austropop , such as STS , Wilfried and Boris Bukowski . In 1980 he became friends with the Irish folk musician, singer and songwriter Andy Irvine , with whom he continues to perform together to this day.
In 2005 Peter Ratzenbeck celebrated a triple anniversary: his 50th birthday, the 30th anniversary on the stage and his 20th record. In August of this year Peter recorded his CD Resonances on the British island in Carlisle , Cumbria , with the English guitarist and songwriter Michael Chapman , where musical greats such as Andy Irvine, Dougie MacLean and Michael Chapman performed as guest musicians , the latter also as a producer co-responsible for the CD.
In 2007 Ratzenbeck was invited by Reinhard Mey to play on his CD Bunter Hund . He took over the guitar part on various pieces.
When Peter Ratzenbeck is not on tour , where he only plays his own compositions apart from a few pieces from other origins, he retires to his remote home in the northern Waldviertel and writes on new compositions. About the creation of his compositions, Ratzenbeck said in an interview in the spring of 2013: “I'm just the antenna, set to receive. This catches something, or it doesn't, you can't force it. It can happen that a composition takes a year. "
His music itself cannot be clearly classified. Musically, his focus is on Irish music , but he is also familiar with New Age , folk , blues , baroque and lute music . He plays around 60 to 70 concerts a year and holds guitar workshops in between.
Others
Peter Ratzenbeck mainly plays acoustic guitars made by Martin Guitars , but also a model made by the Santa Cruz Guitar Company, founded in 1976 by Richard Hoover in California . The two renowned guitar makers Larrivee and Stevens Custom Guitars each brought out their own signature model , built according to Peter Ratzenbeck's specifications. In 2013, the traditional American brand Martin Guitars honored Peter Ratzenbeck's life's work with a signature guitar, which was presented to the public in March 2014. The label in this guitar, a special model based on the OM 28 V, bears the handwritten signature of both Peter Ratzenbeck himself and Christian Frederick Martin IV.
Peter Ratzenbeck is also known by his nickname Mr. Fingerpicking . He is married and has three grown children (Oliver, Jasmin and Simon).
Discography
The musical oeuvre now includes ten CDs, a few samplers and six long-playing records , the latter being traded as rarities with collector's prices. The album Peter's Fancy, which was recorded on Stockfisch Records in 2000, is considered to be one of the highlights of his musical output .
LPs
- 1977: Straight and Ragged (Roots Records)
- 1978: Fingerprints ( Ariola )
- 1979: Sugar and Spice (Ariola)
- 1980: String Wind (Ariola)
- 1982: Refuge (Ariola)
- 1983: Sensitive (Ariola)
- 1985: Guitarero (Shamrock Records)
- 1985: All Night Long - Live in the Vienna Metropol with Hans Theessink
CDs
- 1987: Blue Balance (The Mill)
- 1989: Saitenblicke ( Compilation , Ariola)
- 1990: Over the Years (Shamrock Records)
- 1994: Nightfall (Shamrock Records)
- 1995: Outremer (Shamrock Records)
- 1996: Travelogue (Shamrock Records)
- 1996: Descanso (Azul Records, released in Brazil )
- 1998: RTL 3 (Ratzenbeck-Theessink-Langer, Blue Groove Records)
- 2000: Peter's Fancy (Stockfisch Records)
- 2005: Resonances (Woodcraft Records)
- 2009: Acoustically, Yours ( Sampler , Woodcraft Records)
- 2009: Stringbound (Woodcraft Records)
- 2012: Spheres (Woodcraft Records)
Sampler with different artists
- Folk Club Atlantis Live (1978, double LP, with the songs Hush Little Baby and Eleanor Robinson )
- Unreinforced - Best auf Austria (1993, with Clairevoyance )
- Dieter Dorners Steirereck (1996, ORF production)
- Celtic - Colors of the World (1998, with Sundays Fantasy, Allegro Records)
- Donaumusik (1999, with Forty Shades of Green, Bruno Records)
- NovaEra, with Waldviertel nights and Broceliande
- Acoustic Special, with Brandenberg Rag
- Alpenpower Edition (2004, with Ka Liad, BMG Ariola )
- Even Santa Gets the Blues, (2009, Stockfisch Records)
- Schrammelklang Festival (2010, with Bachelors Delight, Preiser Records )
Film music
The first three CDs were recorded for the US film scoring market:
- Rustic charm, u. a. with Cannonball Fire (actually The Last Flight of the Frisbee )
- Naturally
- Adult swim pump
- Universum (for various episodes, ORF production)
Participation on records from other musicians
- Werner Lämmerhirt - White Spots (1978, for the piece Oetter’s Blues, Stockfisch Records)
- STS - Gegenlicht (1981, Simply beautiful with you, Amadeo Records; 1988 also released on CD)
- Colin Wilkie - Echoes of Old Love Songs (1990, multiple tracks, Shamrock Records)
- Grainne Hambly - Between the Showers (1995, Shamrock Records)
- Colin Wilkie - I Wish I'd Written That Song (1996, One More City, Shamrock Records)
- Hans Theessink - Blue Grooves from Vienna (1998, on the track Rain, A-Minor Records)
- Reinhard Mey - Bunter Hund (2007, for the play Die liebe Gute Fee and two others, EMI Records )
- Michael Chapman - Happy Birthday (2011, with In the Valley, BGO Records)
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Interview with Gerfried Kleisner for the journal Backstage von Musik Produktiv , 3 / October 2004, online at peter-ratzenbeck.at ( Memento of the original from April 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed October 25, 2011
- ↑ Interview for the journal Akustik , issue 98/03, available online at peter-ratzenbeck.at ( Memento of the original from April 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed October 25, 2011
- ↑ Anna Fischer: Waldviertel nights. The sound painting of Peter Ratzenbeck , in: Raiffeisenzeitung, print edition No. 18, May 2, 2013, p. 24
- ^ Tony Bacon, Paul Day: The Ultimate Guitar Book. Edited by Nigel Osborne, Dorling Kindersley, London / New York / Stuttgart 1991; Reprint 1993, ISBN 0-86318-640-8 , p. 41.
- ↑ on salzburg.com ( Memento of the original from March 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 28, 2014
- ↑ on peter-ratzenbeck.at ( Memento of the original from March 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 28, 2014
- ↑ on musik-hofer.at , accessed on March 28, 2014
- ↑ Announcement on the Wald4tler Hoftheater website ( memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on October 25, 2011
- ↑ Michael Holzinger: "Peters Fancy", online at sempre-audio.at ( memento of the original from October 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed October 25, 2011
- ↑ on YouTube
Web links
- Sound carrier by Peter Ratzenbeck in the catalog of the German National Library
- peter-ratzenbeck.at Own website
- Peter Ratzenbeck on YouTube
- Peter Ratzenbeck on MySpace
- Video Odyssey live
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ratzenbeck, Peter |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mr. Fingerpicking (nickname) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian guitarist and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 10, 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Graz |