Eberhard Schoener (born 13 May 1938, Stuttgart) is a German musician, composer, conductor, and arranger. His activities combine many styles and formats. Originally a classical violinist and conductor of chamber music and opera, he was one of the early adopters and popularizers of the Moog synthesizer in Europe. In the 1970s he traveled to Indonesia and incorporated musical elements from Asia into his own work. [1] He has collaborated with rock musicians such as Jon Lord and The Police and also with Electronic Music German Pioneer band Tangerine Dream on an orchestral arrangement for the "Mojave Plan" track for a live performance on a German TV show. He has composed film scores, videos, music for television, and an opera to be broadcast via the Internet. [2] He has won numerous awards, including the 1975 Schwabing Art Prize for music, the 1992 Bambi Award for creativity and a lifetime achievement award at the Soundtrack Cologne Festival of Music and Sound in Film and the Media in November 2014. [3] [4] [5]
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Date | Award |
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1975 | Schwabing Art Award for Music |
1977 | Nominated for the German Album Award |
1977 | Ministry of the Interior Award for the Script "Rita or the Goldopera" |
1992 | BAMBI for Creativity |
1993 | TELESTAR of German Television |
Album | Release date | Notes |
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The Box | 1969 | |
Destruction of Harmony | 1971 | Electronic Music based on Bach |
A Day's Lullaby | 1971 | |
Meditation | 1973 | |
Windows | 1974 | Collaboration with Jon Lord of Deep Purple, performed on live TV and released as album |
Sarabande | 1975 | Conducts Hungarian Philharmonic for solo album by Jon Lord of Deep Purple |
Bali Agúng | 1975 | |
Music from Bali | 1976 | |
Bastien and Bastienne | 1976 | |
The Playwright Director | 1976 | |
Trance-Formation | 1977 | |
The Book | 1977 | |
Flashback | 1978 | |
Video Magic | 1978 | |
Video Flashback | 1979 | Compilation: 5 tracks from 'Video Magic', and 2 each from 'Trance-Formation' and 'Flashback' |
Events | 1980 | |
Video Magic | 1981 | Compilation with same name as 1978 album: 4 tracks from that, plus 1 track from 'Trance-Formation', and 4 from 'Flashback' |
Time Square | 1981 | |
Eberhard Schoener with Sting, Andy Summers & Stewart Copeland of The Police | 1981 | Another compilation: 5 tracks from 'Flashback' and 2 from 'Video Magic' |
Complicated Ladies | 1982 | |
Spurensicherung | 1983 | |
Sky Music / Mountain Music | 1984 | |
1985 Track Securing | 1985 | |
Eberhard Schoener System | 1985 | |
Eberhard Schoener / Sting / Andy Summers | 1986 | Yet another compilation – As 1978 'Video Magic' except 1 track is replaced with 1 from 'Flashback' |
Bon Voyage | 1986 | |
Video Flashback | 1988 | |
The Heritage of the Guldenbergs | 1989 | |
Eberhard Schoener, Sting, Andy Summers | 1986 | |
Bali Symphony – Trance Mission | 1991 | |
Why Don't You Answer | 1992 | |
Harmonia Mundi | 1993 | |
Time Cycle | 1994 | |
Palazzo dell'Amore / Cold Genius | 1996 | |
Film Music "Derrick" | 1998 | |
Hey Mr. Gentleman | 1998 | |
Potsdamer Platz – Heart of Berlin | 1988 | |
Namaste-Puja | 1999 | |
Eberhard Schoener And Friends – crossing times and continents | 2006 | Compilation/Re-working (1977–2006) |
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