Walter Quintus

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Walter Quintus (born April 15, 1949 in Bremen ; † February 20, 2017 ) was a German musician , composer , sound engineer and music producer .

biography

Walter Quintus studied violin from 1955 to 1969 and was concertmaster in youth orchestras as early as 1959. Many tours through Europe as well as radio and television productions followed. At the age of 18 he was supposed to study with David Oistrach in Moscow, but he finished his classical studies and founded the rock band Parzival together with Thomas Olivier and Lothar Siems . They released two long-playing records and a single on Teldec (Telefunken / Decca).

From 1972 he began recording and mixing music himself in Bremen and shortly afterwards in the Rüssl Studio in Hamburg . In the first years he worked with commercial musicians and bands like Rex Gildo , Grobschnitt , Kraan , Kraftwerk , Vicky Leandros , Udo Lindenberg , Lonzo , Jahn Teigen , Otto Waalkes , Roger Whittaker and many others.

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In the late 1970s he produced Rolf and Joachim Kühn . He switched from the commercial to the artistically avant-garde camp. This was followed by records with (in alphabetical order):

With Kurt Renker, Quintus opened the CMP studio in Zerkall in 1982 , where he recorded and mixed music until 2010. In 1984, together with Joachim Kühn, he created the Digital Soundboard , an analog-digital mixer equipped with many electronic effects, which makes it possible to acoustically change and expand music played immediately and directly. The digital soundboard was used live in the ballet productions Time Exposure (Broadway, New York, Carolyn Carlson ), Dark (Théatre de la Ville, Paris, Carolyn Carlson), Get up Early and Citizen Kane (Opera, Cologne, Jochen Ullrich), as well in many concerts with Joachim Kühn, Jean-François Jenny-Clark , John Bergamo , Josep-Maria Balanyà and others.

From 1994 Quintus also worked with Audio-Art , an experimental form of modern radio play .

He produced in Turkey, India and Indonesia with Kudsi Erguner, Shoba Gurtu, KRT Wasitodiningrat , Sruti Laya, among others . Most of his productions of jazz, classical and new music originated in Europe and the United States.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Walter Quintus died - as was not known until the beginning of March - on February 20 at the age of only 67 years. (No longer available online.) In: Kulturradio .de. Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg , March 12, 2017, formerly in the original ; accessed on March 20, 2017 (page no longer available online. However, when you enter the title, the message appears as a headline in Google's search results.).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.kulturradio.de  
  2. ^ Obituary in Jazz newspaper, different date of death: March 2nd
  3. ↑ Communication from the Darmstadt Jazz Institute from March 15, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Quintus, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician, composer, sound engineer and music producer
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen , Germany
DATE OF DEATH 20th February 2017