Friedrich Gulda (1930 –2000) was an Austrian pianist and
composer who worked in both the classical and jazz fields.
Born in Vienna the son of a teacher, Gulda began learning to
play the piano from Felix Pazofsky at the Wiener Volkskonservatorium, aged 7.
In 1942, he entered the Vienna Music Academy, where he studied piano and
musical theory under Bruno Seidlhofer and Joseph Marx.
During World War II as teenagers, Gulda and his friend Joe
Zawinul would go out and perform forbidden musics – like jazz, in violation of
the government's prohibition on the playing of such music.
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