Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1933
- Works
- 3
Top works
- Meditation and dance
- Poems, portraits, ballades, and blues
- The contemporary contrabass
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Bertram Turetzky (b. Connecticut, United States, 1933) is a contemporary American double bass soloist, teacher, and author of The Contemporary Contrabass (1974, 1989), a book that looked at a number of new and interesting ways of playing the double bass including featured it as a solo performance vehicle with no other instrumental accompaniment. Turetzky has performed and recorded more than 300 pieces written by and for him. He is a composer whose music has achieved some prominence <a href="http
Key dates
- Born
- 14 February 1933
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Bertram
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Norwich
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- University of Hartford
- Genre
- jazz
- Instrument
- double bass
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