Edgar Froese

Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Country

DE

Active from

1944-06-06

Active to

2015-01-20

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Listeners · Last.fm

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Edgar Froese (born Edgar Wilmar Froese on 6 June 1944; died 20 January 2015) was a German musical artist and electronic music pioneer, best known for founding the electronic music group Tangerine Dream in 1967. Froese was the only continuous member of the group until his death. While his solo and group recordings prior to 2003 name him as "Edgar Froese", his later solo albums bear the name "Edgar W. Froese". Froese was born in Tilsit, East Prussia (now Sovetsk, Russia) during World War II. <a

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Academic profile · OpenAlex

Works

67

Cited by

698

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. G*Power 3: A flexible statistical power analysis program for the social, behavioral, and biomedical sciences

   · 2007 · cited 53,027x

2. MUSCLE: multiple sequence alignment with high accuracy and high throughput

   · 2004 · cited 37,700x

3. Statistical power analyses using G*Power 3.1: Tests for correlation and regression analyses

   · 2009 · cited 30,147x

4. Search and clustering orders of magnitude faster than BLAST

   · 2010 · cited 18,797x

5. Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

   · 2020 · cited 15,320x

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Music

Quotes

• “We are using electronic instruments both in the studio and on stage but we are not living in an ivory tower, banned from any kind of popularity doing just intellectual research on electronics. So we really like to entertain people in the best way possible to show how modern, sophisticated equipment can be used today in order to create a futuristic sound.”
• “To work on stage these days with all the advanced tools developed by the electronic industry, you can’t sit down like in the old days and start noodling around on a three-chord basis. Today you need a kind of structure or even a very complex composition for communicating properly between a bunch of people. Nevertheless, there is still room for musical freedom and even improvisation.”
• “Writing music for a picture means you have to compromise with a given reference to a movie or the advice coming from the director and producer. Working on your own material, you have to be just authentic with yourself, following your subjective perspectives and ideas. There is no-one who will judge what you are doing as long as you are in the composing process. Both ways are very different but can support your input learning about the musical universe immensely.”
• “Your thoughts about life and music have changed within the 45 years of the existence as a band and so it still can be seen as a burning process in order to transform the entire picture of everything you came in touch with.”
• “The essence of what I have learned about writing and performing music is the authenticity you are faced with in your day-to-day work. No matter what other people or even critics will say, you have to follow your own direction which not necessarily has to be a straight line to success; sometimes it will be a curly, dramatic curve you have to go, but that’s the only way to leave a little landmark of brave respect to others and to the dimensions of your own capability.”

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Key dates

Born

6 June 1944

Died

20 January 2015

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Edgar

Gender

male

Citizenship

Germany

Place of birth

Sovetsk

Place of death

Vienna

Occupation

lyricist

Languages spoken

German

Genre

electronic music

Instrument

electronic keyboard

Record label

EMI Records

Official website

www.edgarfroese.com

Image

Tangerine-dream-ebw-2 (cropped).jpg

Work location

Berlin

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