Eberhard Schoener
Eberhard Schoener (born 13 May 1936, also spelled Schöner) 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.
Eberhard Schoener

Bruchhausen-Festival/Syker Festival-Initiative · gekaufte Eintrittskarte von 1984 eingescannt · Public domain
- Name
- Eberhard Schoener
- Born
- 13 May 1936
- Birthplace
- Stuttgart, Germany
- Occupation
- musician, composer, conductor
- Nationality
- Germany.
- Fields
- classical music.
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Eberhard Schoener (born 13 May 1936, also spelled Schöner) 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.
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Biography
Biography
In the 1970s he traveled to Indonesia and incorporated musical elements from Asia into his own work. He has collaborated with rock musicians such as Jon Lord and The Police and also with German electronic music pioneers 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. 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.
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Key facts
• Name — Eberhard Schoener • Alias — Eberhard Schöner • Born — 13 May 1936 • Birthplace — Stuttgart, Germany • Occupation — musician, composer, conductor • Instrument — keyboards • Years Active — 1960s–present • Website — eberhard-schoener.com • Illustration — Lineup for the 1984 Bruchhausen-Festival in Lower Saxony, featuring Schoener alongside acts like Vitesse, Dr. Feelgood and Heinz Rudolf Kunze.
Career highlights
Career highlights
Sources: • 1958 Studies Violin at the Academy of Music in Detmold (Nordwestdeutsche Musikakademie) under Professor Tibor Varga, chorister under Professor Eugen Pabst • 1959 Scholarship at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, conducting class under Sergiu Celibidache and chamber music under Quintetto Chiagiano • 1960 First violin at the Bavarian State Opera House • 1961 Foundation of the Munich Juvenile Symphony Orchester, known across the borders as "The Young Orchestra (Das junge Orchester)" in the ARD TV-series. • 1964 Musical supervisor of the Bavarian Opera until 1968 • 1965 Foundation of the Munich Chamber Opera and since the artistic supervisor and conductor. Amongst others he conducted annual opera and concert performances at the Brunnenhof (Fountain-Courtyard) at the Residence Castle in Munich • 1972 "Gianni Schicchi" by Giacomo Puccini as a public performance at the Olympic Games in Munich. • 1973 The chamber opera "La Zingara" for German public television (ZDF) • 1974 Collaborates with Jon Lord of Deep Purple on Windows and performance is televised also featuring David Coverdale, Glenn Hughes, and Pete York • 1974 The opera "The Chief of the Theatre (Der Schauspieldirektor)" by W.A. Mozart music supervision and directed for television, starring Peter Ustinov as well as "The Bandmaster (Der Kapellmeister)" by Cimarosa. Both were published as a record through EMI-Classic. • 1975 Conducts Philharmonia Hungarica for Sarabande album by Jon Lord of Deep Purple • 1977 The fragment of an opera "Shakuntala" by Franz Schubert for the International Dance Theatre for German public television (ZDF). • 1978 Records "Video Magic" and "Flashback" with Andy Summers, Sting and Stewart Copeland. • 1981 Orchestral Arrangements and Conducting of "Mojave Plan" by Tangerine Dream played with the band for German Public Television at Circus Krone Building in Munich. • 1987 "Pop-Stars perform Brecht/Weill": A concert at the Theatre of Hamburg recorded for television (NDR) featuring Sting, Gianna Nannini and Jack Bruce. • 1989 Third music-festival on the Island Elba with the performance of the opera "Mozart & Salieri".
Identity
Identity
Eberhard Schoener is recorded with the occupation film score composer. Classed in the genre classical music. Recorded as conductor, composer, film score composer and musician.
Life and career
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1971
Eberhard SCHOENER - Destruction Of Harmony - Ariola 42881 X (1971) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive.
Discography
• Album — Release date — Notes • 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 — 1976 — 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) • Sources:
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Awards
Sources: • Date — Award • 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
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- 1.Eberhard Schoener 'Bali Agúng'. 16 March 2009.
- 2.Virtopera.
- 3.Preisträgerinnen und Preisträger.
- 4.» Preisträger Suche BAMBI 2014. www.bambi.de.
- 5.SoundTrack_Cologne | Willkommen.
- 6.Eberhard Schoener – Portrait 1939 – 1965.
- 7.Eberhard Schoener – Portrait 1939 – 1965.
- 8.Eberhard Schoener – Discographie 69–73.
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