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- Birth nameHans Peter Hermann Brötzmann
- Peter Brötzmann was born on March 6, 1941 in Remscheid, Germany. He was a composer, known for Great Freedom (2021), The World to Come (2020) and Hölle Hamburg (2007). He was married to Krista Bolland. He died on June 22, 2023 in Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
- SpouseKrista Bolland(1962 - 2006) (her death, 2 children)
- Children
- He studied painting in Wuppertal and was involved with the Fluxus movement but grew dissatisfied with art galleries and exhibitions.
- He experienced his first jazz concert when he saw American jazz musician Sidney Bechet while still in school at Wuppertal, and it made a lasting impression.
- Peter Brötzmann was a German saxophonist and clarinetist.
- In the 1980s, Brötzmann flirted with heavy metal and noise rock, recording with Last Exit and the band's bass guitarist and producer Bill Laswell.
- In 1968, Machine Gun, an octet recording, was released. The album was self-produced under his BRO record label imprint and sold at concerts, and later marketed by FMP. In 2007 Atavistic reissued Machine Gun.
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