Walter Werzowa (born 15 December 1960) is an Austrian composer, producer and owner of LA-based music production studio

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. He is most famous for composing the "

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bong"

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and the 1980s hit "

Bring Me Edelweiss "Bring Me Edelweiss" is a song by Austrian band Edelweiss, first released in late 1988 as a stand-alone single, then later included on their debut album ''Wonderful World of Edelweiss''. The song was a hit in Europe and New Zealand, reaching the ...

" as part of the band

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. Walter Werzowa joined an AI team to co-write Beethoven’s 10th symphony, that premiered October 9, 2021 in Bonn. He is leading the music department for the immersive Mozart! Experience Vienna.

Biography

Walter Werzowa was born in

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, where he studied

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and

electronic music Electronic music is a genre of music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments, or circuitry-based music technology in its creation. It includes both music made using electronic and electromechanical means ( electroac ...

at Vienna Musik Hochschule. His collaboration with

Otto M. Zykan Otto Matthäus Zykan (29 April 1935, Vienna – 25 May 2006, Sachsendorf, Burgschleinitz-Kühnring) was an Austrian composer and pianist. He studied at the Vienna Music Academy, where his teachers included Karl Schiske (composition), Bruno S ...

opened doors for contemporary classical music. Walter moved to the

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after Edelweiss disbanded, at which point, he studied film music at the

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. Werzowa has been featured in various literature and referred to as "the guru of audio branding." He and his wife Evelyne currently reside in

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with their three children Camille, Julien, and Lucca. In 2016, Werzowa received his

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degree from the

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Career

Werzowa is well known for having composed and produced the Intel "Bong," which is allegedly broadcast somewhere in the world once every five minutes. Since its conception in 1994, he has re-arranged it to keep it current, most recently in 2015, when he composed the mashup of the Intel "Bong" mnemonic and

Beethoven's 5th Symphony The Symphony No. 5 in C minor of Ludwig van Beethoven, Op. 67, was written between 1804 and 1808. It is one of the best-known compositions in classical music and one of the most frequently played symphonies, and it is widely considered one of t ...

to create "Symphony in Blue", the anthem for Intel's Experience Amazing campaign which premiered during

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. Besides audio branding, Werzowa also composes music for feature films. Most recently, he scored the documentary, Author: The JT LeRoy Story, which was written and directed by

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and is the only film on this subject thus far to receive American and European theatrical distribution, it premiered in United States theaters in September 2016. Previously, Werzowa has scored the main themes to ''

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'' (starring

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),'' Taking Lives'' (starring

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), ''

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'', ''

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'' and ''

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'', which received a

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award. He also earned a music credit on Steven Spielberg's

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and in 2008 he worked on '' 8: Person to Person'', which was directed by

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. Werzowa also composed the ''

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'' theme. In 2014, Music Beyond, the production music library founded by Werzowa in 2005, was acquired by

BMG BMG may refer to: Organizations * Music publishing companies: ** Bertelsmann Music Group, a 1987–2008 division of Bertelsmann that was purchased by Sony on October 1, 2008 *** Sony BMG, a 2004–2008 joint venture of Bertelsmann and Sony that wa ...

. Werzowa now serves in a consultant capacity at both BMG and Beyond. In 2016, Werzowa launche
HealthTunes.org
a free music/sound streaming platform that offers academically and scientifically researched Health Music and evidence-based clinical reference. In 2021, Walter premiers Ludwig van Beethoven's 10 Symphony in Bonn. DTAG
CD released on Modern Records BMG

References

External links

* Official IMDB Pag

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