Adrian von Ziegler (; born 25 December 1989) is a Swiss composer from

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, Switzerland. He gained popularity on the video-sharing website

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, where his channel has over 1,000,000 subscribers as of May 2021. He composes instrumental music with a variety of Celtic Music, Emotional Music, Relaxing Music, Dark Music, Oriental Music, Fantasy Music, Movie Scores, Metal and many other genres. Adrian von Ziegler started using a "very old keyboard" and Magix Music Maker to compose his music. He still has this keyboard, but now mainly uses

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. Although there are few signs of media attention, von Ziegler was featured in a Magix magazine article in 2012.

Musical career

At age 15, von Ziegler began his musical experience as a drummer in a local rock band. However, wanting more melodic expression, he quit the band and started to compose music independently, using only a headset microphone and guitar. From 2007 to 2009, he recorded countless demo songs under the artist name "Indigo", in which his guitar would get replaced increasingly often by keyboard and orchestral arrangements of which he grew to favor. In 2008, he began releasing music on the social networking site

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. After dropping the Indigo

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in 2009, he began releasing music under his own name, starting with the albums ''Requiem'' and ''Lifeclock'' in 2010.

Style and inspiration

Much of von Ziegler's music is characterized by traditional and orchestral instrumentation, digitally composed and synthesized. He states that his inspiration originates from a variety of sources, including

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and Norse mythology, movie and video game soundtracks and fantasy literature. He attributes his orchestral style to the influence of composers such as

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, Koji Kondo and

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. He also notes that his emotions, natural surroundings, imaginary worlds and wife all give him inspiration for his musical works.

Other achievements

In 2021, von Ziegler released a 400-page dictionary describing Inra, a

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he developed over 10 years and which often features in his music. As of its release, the publication contained: * Dictionary of over 20,000 words and terms (276 pages) * Grammar section and conjugation charts (81 pages) * Name section, with over 1,000 Inra personal names and their meanings (25 pages) * Proverb section (currently in the beginning stage) * Etymology section (currently in the beginning stage)

Discography

References

Sources

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Adrian von Ziegler
Spotify.com. Retrieved 9 May 2025.

External links

Adrian von Ziegler's channel
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