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Walter Werzowa (born 15 December 1960) is an Austrian 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 EDELWEISS (Expérience pour DEtecter Les WIMPs En Site Souterrain) is a dark matter search experiment located at the Modane Underground Laboratory in France. The experiment uses cryogenic detectors, measuring both the phonon and ionization signal ...
. 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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,
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, where he studied classical guitar 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
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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 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 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 ''
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'' (starring Arnold Schwarzenegger),'' Taking Lives'' (starring
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), '' The Hunted'', '' Yippee'' and ''
The Devil and Daniel Johnston ''The Devil and Daniel Johnston'' is a 2005 documentary film about American musician Daniel Johnston. It chronicles Johnston's life from childhood up to the present, with an emphasis on his experiences with bipolar disorder, and how it manifested ...
'', which received a Sundance Film Festival 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 Wim Wenders. 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
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


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External links

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