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Andreas Fuyu Gutzwiller

Gutzwiller, Andreas Fuyu
Born 1940

Shakuhachi
andreas.gutzwiller@bluewin.ch

Andreas Gutzwiller was born in 1940 in Germany. After attending school in
Basel Switzerland, he studied musicology and ethnomusicology at the free University of Berlin and ethnomusicology at Wesleyan University, United States. He began the study of the Japanese shakuhachi flute with Araki Kodo V, then continued his studies in Tokyo with Kawase Junsuke III. In 1974 he received his Ph.D with a thesis on the history and music of the shakuhachi. In 1976 he was the first European to receive the title of shihan (master) of the Kinko School of shakuhachi and the name of Fuyu. Since 1980, he has taught at the Music Academy in the city of Basel and was Director of the Studio for non-European music of the Music Academy until 2005. In the summer of 2004, he received a teaching position for ethnomusicology of the musicology Institute of the University of Basel. He is author of Shakuhachi: Aspects of History, Practice & Teaching among others.

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Emptiness of the Sky, The Emptiness of the Sky, The

Kinko Honkyoku prepared by Miura Kindo.

Flute of the Misty Sea, The Flute of the Misty Sea, The


Music For Two Shakuhachi

Shakuhachi duets.

True Spirit of Emptiness, The True Spirit of Emptiness, The

Kinko Honkyoku prepared by Miura Kindo.

Tracks Recorded

Pieces KanjiLengthAlbumInstrument
Aki Kaze no Kyoku 秋風の曲 Music For Two Shakuhachi Shakuhachi
Play Button Akita Sugagaki (Kinko Ryu) 秋田菅垣 10'44 Emptiness of the Sky, The Shakuhachi
Play Button Ashi no Shirabe 芦の調 03'35 Emptiness of the Sky, The Shakuhachi
Play Button Banshiki Chō 盤渉調 07'58 True Spirit of Emptiness, The Shakuhachi
Play Button Hi Fu Mi Hachigaeshi no Shirabe (Kinko Ryū) 一二三鉢返の調 12'29 True Spirit of Emptiness, The Shakuhachi
Igusa Reibo 葦草鈴慕 13'55 Flute of the Misty Sea, The Shakuhachi
Play Button Kokū Reibo 虚空鈴慕 21'00 Emptiness of the Sky, The Shakuhachi
Kokū Reibo 虚空鈴慕 Music For Two Shakuhachi Shakuhachi
Koro Sugagaki (Kinko Ryu) 転菅垣 Music For Two Shakuhachi Shakuhachi
Kotoji no Kyoku 琴柱の曲 04'33 Flute of the Misty Sea, The Shakuhachi
Mukaiji Reibo 霧海箎鈴慕 17'40 Flute of the Misty Sea, The Shakuhachi
Play Button Reibo Nagashi 鈴慕流 13'41 Emptiness of the Sky, The Shakuhachi
Rokudan no Shirabe 六段の調 Music For Two Shakuhachi Shakuhachi
Sakai Jishi (Kinko Ryu) 栄獅子 Music For Two Shakuhachi Shakuhachi
Sayama Sugagaki 佐山菅垣 12'07 Flute of the Misty Sea, The Shakuhachi
Shika no Tōne (Kinko Ryū) 鹿の遠音 Music For Two Shakuhachi Shakuhachi
Play Button Shin Kyorei 真虚霊 20'33 True Spirit of Emptiness, The Shakuhachi
Play Button Sokaku Reibo 巣鶴鈴慕 16'01 True Spirit of Emptiness, The Shakuhachi
Play Button Tsuki no Kyoku 月の曲 10'34 Emptiness of the Sky, The Shakuhachi
Yugure no Kyoku 夕暮の曲 13'56 Flute of the Misty Sea, The Shakuhachi

Publications

Title Kanji Publisher Year Pages Language
Die Flote Shakuhachi : Von Bettlern zu Monchen zu Musikern [The Shakuhachi Flute: From Beggars to Monks to Musicians]. In Musik in Japan: Aufsatze zu Aspekten der Musik im heutigen Japan, edited by Silvain Guignard

Munchen: Ludicium Verlag 1996 47-57
Die Shakuhachi der Kinko-Schule [Shakuhachi of the Kinko School]

Basel: Barrenreiter Kassel 1983

Review of Bamboo Textures: Works for Shakuhachi by John Kaizan Neptune

World of Music 25, no. 2 1983 80-81
Rhythm in Shakuhachi Honkyoku. In European Studies in Ethnomusicology: Historical Developments and Recent Trends, edited by Max Peter Baumann, Artur Simon and Ulrich Wegner

Wilhelmshaven, Germany: F. Noetzel 1990 269-281
Shakuhachi of the Fuke-Sect: Instrument of Zen

World of Music 26, no. 3. Pages 53-65 1984 9 English
Shakuhachi-Unterricht im fruhen 19. Jahrhundert: Juhachi jokuden, Die achtzehn Artikel des Kurosawa Kinko III [Shakuhachi Instruction in the Early 19th Century: Juhachi Jokuden, Eighteen Articles by Kurosawa Kinko III]. - In Lux Oriente: Begegnungen der Kulturen in der Musikforschung, Festschrift Robert Gunther zum 65. Geburtstag.

Kassel: Gustav Bosse Verlag 1995 149-158
Shakuhachi: Aspects of History, Practice and Teaching

Master of Arts 1974 198 English
Stone Age and Promise Land: An Answer to James Reid

Ethnomusicology 23, no. 1 1979 103-107
The World of a Single Sound: Basic Structure of the Music of the Japanese Flute Shakuhachi. (With Gerald Bennett)

Musica Asiatica 6 1991 36-59