15 Facts About Klaus Schulze

Klaus Schulze was a German electronic music pioneer, composer and musician.

Klaus Schulze 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.

Klaus Schulze's father was a writer, and his mother a ballet dancer.

Klaus Schulze met Edgar Froese from Tangerine Dream in the Zodiac Club in what was then West Berlin.

In 1972, Klaus Schulze released his debut album Irrlicht with organ and a recording of an orchestra filtered almost beyond recognition.

Since this point, Klaus Schulze's career was the most prolific, such that he could claim more than 40 original albums to his name since Irrlicht.

Some of his lighter albums are appreciated by new-age music fans, despite the fact that Klaus Schulze has always denied connections to this genre.

Klaus Schulze had a more organic sound than other electronic artists of the time.

Klaus Schulze developed a Minimoog patch that sounds uncannily like an electric guitar.

Klaus Schulze often takes German events as a starting point for his compositions, a notable example being on his 1978 album "X", subtitled "Six Musical Biographies", a reference to such notables as Ludwig II of Bavaria, Friedrich Nietzsche, Georg Trakl, and Wilhelm Friedemann Bach.

Klaus Schulze's next studio-based album was Angst.

In 1989, German band Alphaville released their album The Breathtaking Blue, on which Klaus Schulze was both a contributing musician and the album's producer.

Klaus Schulze died on 26 April 2022 following a long illness.

An intensive reissue program of Klaus Schulze CDs began in 2005, with most releases having bonus tracks, and sometimes additional discs.

Between 1993 and 2002 Klaus Schulze released several limited edition boxed sets, all composed of non-album material.