Andreas Fuyu Gutzwiller
Born 1940
Shakuhachi
andreas.gutzwiller@bluewin.ch
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Andreas Gutzwiller was born in 1940 in Germany. After attending school in Basel Switzerland, he studied musicology and ethnomusicology at the free University of Berlin and ethnomusicology at Wesleyan University, United States. He began the study of the Japanese shakuhachi flute with Araki Kodo V, then continued his studies in Tokyo with Kawase Junsuke III. In 1974 he received his Ph.D with a thesis on the history and music of the shakuhachi. In 1976 he was the first European to receive the title of shihan (master) of the Kinko School of shakuhachi and the name of Fuyu. Since 1980, he has taught at the Music Academy in the city of Basel and was Director of the Studio for non-European music of the Music Academy until 2005. In the summer of 2004, he received a teaching position for ethnomusicology of the musicology Institute of the University of Basel. He is author of Shakuhachi: Aspects of History, Practice & Teaching among others.
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Albums
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Emptiness of the Sky, The Kinko Honkyoku prepared by Miura Kindo. |
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Flute of the Misty Sea, The |
| Music For Two Shakuhachi Shakuhachi duets. | |
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True Spirit of Emptiness, The Kinko Honkyoku prepared by Miura Kindo. |
Tracks Recorded
Publications
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| Die Flote Shakuhachi : Von Bettlern zu Monchen zu Musikern [The Shakuhachi Flute: From Beggars to Monks to Musicians]. In Musik in Japan: Aufsatze zu Aspekten der Musik im heutigen Japan, edited by Silvain Guignard |
Munchen: Ludicium Verlag | 1996 | 47-57 | ||
| Die Shakuhachi der Kinko-Schule [Shakuhachi of the Kinko School] |
Basel: Barrenreiter Kassel | 1983 | |||
| Review of Bamboo Textures: Works for Shakuhachi by John Kaizan Neptune |
World of Music 25, no. 2 | 1983 | 80-81 | ||
| Rhythm in Shakuhachi Honkyoku. In European Studies in Ethnomusicology: Historical Developments and Recent Trends, edited by Max Peter Baumann, Artur Simon and Ulrich Wegner |
Wilhelmshaven, Germany: F. Noetzel | 1990 | 269-281 | ||
| Shakuhachi of the Fuke-Sect: Instrument of Zen |
World of Music 26, no. 3. Pages 53-65 | 1984 | 9 | English | |
| Shakuhachi-Unterricht im fruhen 19. Jahrhundert: Juhachi jokuden, Die achtzehn Artikel des Kurosawa Kinko III [Shakuhachi Instruction in the Early 19th Century: Juhachi Jokuden, Eighteen Articles by Kurosawa Kinko III]. - In Lux Oriente: Begegnungen der Kulturen in der Musikforschung, Festschrift Robert Gunther zum 65. Geburtstag. |
Kassel: Gustav Bosse Verlag | 1995 | 149-158 | ||
| Shakuhachi: Aspects of History, Practice and Teaching |
Master of Arts | 1974 | 198 | English | |
| Stone Age and Promise Land: An Answer to James Reid |
Ethnomusicology 23, no. 1 | 1979 | 103-107 | ||
| The World of a Single Sound: Basic Structure of the Music of the Japanese Flute Shakuhachi. (With Gerald Bennett) |
Musica Asiatica 6 | 1991 | 36-59 |