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Klaus Schulze

1947 - 2022

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Klaus Schulze (4 August 1947 – 26 April 2022) was a German electronic music pioneer, composer and musician. He also used the alias Richard Wahnfried and was a member of the Krautrock bands Tangerine Dream, Ash Ra Tempel, and the Cosmic Jokers before launching a solo career consisting of more than 60 albums released across six decades. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Klaus Schulze is the 338th most popular composer (down from 301st in 2019), the 1,285th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,218th in 2019) and the 49th most popular German Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Klaus Schulze ranks 338 out of 1,451. Before him are Bernard Herrmann, Keith Emerson, Luca Marenzio, Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov, Johann van Beethoven, and Irving Berlin. After him are Georg Benda, Clément Janequin, Ignaz Pleyel, Michael Nyman, Francesco Gasparini, and Sergei Taneyev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Klaus Schulze ranks 103. Before him are Noritaka Hidaka, Malam Bacai Sanhá, Mariska Veres, Lucas Papademos, Ljupko Petrović, and Lee Evans. After him are Halldór Ásgrímsson, Jeffrey DeMunn, Roger De Vlaeminck, David Zucker, Peter Weller, and Walter Röhrl. Among people deceased in 2022, Klaus Schulze ranks 82. Before him are James Lovelock, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Siniša Mihajlović, Ricardo Bofill, Bernard Cribbins, and Fred Ward. After him are Cláudio Hummes, Catherine Spaak, Eric Walter Elst, Evaristo Carvalho, Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela, and Ruggero Deodato.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Klaus Schulze ranks 1,285 out of 7,253. Before him are Ernst Troeltsch (1865), Landgravine Charlotte of Hesse-Kassel (1627), Lorenz von Stein (1815), Rupert of Salzburg (650), John Casimir, Count Palatine of Kleeburg (1589), and Hans Aumeier (1906). After him are Claudia Schiffer (1970), Christian August, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst (1690), Alfred von Waldersee (1832), Luz Long (1913), Adolf Strauss (1879), and Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1721).

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Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Klaus Schulze ranks 49. Before him are Georg Böhm (1661), Johann Jakob Froberger (1616), Johann Mattheson (1681), Johann Kuhnau (1660), Johann Georg Pisendel (1687), and Johann van Beethoven (1740). After him are Samuel Scheidt (1587), Hans Werner Henze (1926), Hans Leo Hassler (1564), Christian Gottlob Neefe (1748), Karl Richter (1926), and Carl Heinrich Graun (1704).

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