Walter Werzowa (born 15 December 1960) is an Austrian-born composer, producer and owner of LA-based music production studio Musikvergnuegen. He is most famous for composing the "

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bong"

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and the 1980s hit " Bring Me Edelweiss" as part of the band Edelweiss. Walter Werzowa joined an AI team to co-write Beethoven’s 10th symphony, that premiered October 9, 2021 in Bonn.

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heard Walter's Beethoven work and asked to work on Robbie's 2022 Angels remake. He is leading the music department for the immersive Mythos Mozart Experience Vienna. Walter collaborated with Refik Anadol in "Mozart Forever." Walter is heading the Filmmusik department at MDW University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.

Biography

Walter Werzowa was born in

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, where he studied

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and

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at Vienna Musik Hochschule. His collaboration with Otto M. Zykan 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 University of Santa Monica.

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 to create "Symphony in Blue", the anthem for Intel's Experience Amazing campaign which premiered during Super Bowl 50. Musikvergnuegen, Inc. (), sometimes abbreviated to ''MusikV'', is a music and sound design production company founded by Werzowa, located in

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. The company name translates into English as "enjoyment of music". Musikvergnuegen specializes in audio branding and has worked on campaigns for

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, GM Goodwrench and LG. 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 Jeff Feuerzeig 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 '' Eraser'' (starring

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),'' Taking Lives'' (starring

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), '' The Hunted'', '' Yippee'' and '' The Devil and Daniel Johnston'', which received a

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award. He also earned a music credit on Steven Spielberg's Minority Report and in 2008 he worked on '' 8: Person to Person'', which was directed by

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. Werzowa also composed the '' Nova'' theme. In 2014, Music Beyond, the production music library founded by Werzowa in 2005, was acquired by BMG. Werzowa now serves in a consultant capacity at both BMG and Beyond. In 2016, Werzowa launche
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a free music/sound streaming platform that offers academically and scientifically researched Health Music and evidence-based clinical reference. In 2021, Walter premiered 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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