Effective period / Period of releases: 1980

Swiss musician, songwriter and teacher, born 1935. Lives now in Italy, Rancone at the Lago Maggiore.

About his musical career in his own words:
The earliest recordings date back to 1964 and 1966 when I did my first TV show (together with Hanspeter Treichler). Our first program was called "STRAMPEDEMI". Its titlesong is a "Lanzknechtlied" - a song of the Swiss mercenary soldiers that fought for the pope in Italy in the 16th century.
From 1966-1972 I was a program editor at RADIO ZÜRICH, the Zürich Studio of the SWISS RADIO CORPORATION.
From 1972-1979 I wrote and composed my own songs. I was a "Liedermacher", a songmaker. I performed in small theatres all over Europe, in Switzerland, Germany, France and England. I also recorded some of my songs for Radio and Television.
In 1979 I started to play medieval instruments: hurdy-gurdy, bagpipes, threehole pipes, rebec, fiddle, citern, mandora, tambourin. I tried to revive songs and music of the minstrels, troubadours and minnesingers of the 13th century.
In 2000, at the age of 65years, I had to stop playing concerts.