| LC control no. | n 94065778 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Czukay, Holger |
| Variant(s) | Schüring, Holger |
| Other standard no. | 0000000055145400 54332152 |
| Associated country | Germany |
| Located | Weilerswist (Germany) |
| Birth date | 1938-03-24 |
| Death date | 2017-09-05 |
| Place of birth | Gdańsk (Poland) |
| Place of death | Weilerswist (Germany) |
| Field of activity | Rock music |
| Affiliation | Can (Musical group) |
| Profession or occupation | Bass guitarists Composers Instrumentalists |
| Found in | Wobble, J. Snake charmer [SR] p1983: label (Holger Czukay) OHM+ [SR] 2005: container (Holger Czukay) notes (b. 1938, Germany) Los Angeles times WWW site, viewed Sept. 8, 2017 (in obituary dated Sept. 6, 2017: the bassist and composer Holger Czukay, whose death at 79 was announced Tuesday [Sept. 5, 2017] , played a key role in the creation of post-punk; co-founder of the influential German experimental rock band Can, starting in 1968; expanded the range and role of the electric bass in rock music; simultaneously, Czukay was a pioneer at integrating found-sound recordings with original works) El país WWW site, viewed Sept. 8, 2017 (in obituary dated Sept. 6, 2017: Holger Czukay, multi-instrumentalist and founding member of the group Can, was found dead yesterday, Tuesday [Sept. 5, 2017] in his living quarters at Inner Space Studio, in Weilerswist, half an hour from Cologne; born 1938 in Danzig) New York times, 12 September 2017 (Holger Czukay; born Holger Schüring 24 March 1938 to German parents living in the Free City of Danzig, died Tuesday [5 September 2017] in Weilerswist, Germany, aged 79; changed his name to Czukay, an approximation of the Polish word for "search" because his mentor, the avant-garde German composer and electronic music pioneer Karlheinz Stockhausen, had often called him a searcher; a guiding force in the German experimental rock group Can, one of the most influential bands of the 1970s.) |
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