Florian Schneider died

Today, May 6, at the age of 73, a German musician, co -founder of Kraftwerk, Florian Schneider, died.

It is reported by Billboard .

Florian Schneider Esleben was born in 1947 in Düsseldorf, studied there at the University of Music and Media named after Robert Schuman. Having become an academic flutist, he continued his musical education in Cologne and Remshaid, also played the violin and guitar.

In 1968, along with Ralph Hutter, with whom he studied at the Remshaid Music Academy, founded the Organisation Quintet. In 1970, the group was transformed into a quartet and gained fame called Kraftwerk ("power station").

Florian Schneider participated in the recording of all 11 studio albums Kraftwerk . In the first albums, he played on the flute and violin, starting with the Autobahn plate (1974), acoustic instruments were no longer used and the group - one of the first in the world - completely switched to electronic sound. Florian Schneider worked with electronic effects, he improved the artificial voices of Robovox , a kind of business card Kraftwerk .

Of all the members of the group, Florian Schneider was the most closed, he refused to communicate with the press and only in 1998 made an exception for Brazilian television, which released an interview with a musician on the occasion of Kraftwerk participation in the electronic music festival.

In the same year, Florian Schneider was appointed professor of media art and performing skills at the State University of Karlsruhe Design. In 2009, he officially announced the withdrawal from Kraftwerk , in 2015, together with producer Dan Laxman, he released the track “Stop Plastic Pollution” , which became part of the international campaign in defense of the environment.