Wolfgang Zuckermann

Wolfgang Zuckermann ( born October 11, 1922 in Berlin ) is an instrument maker with a focus on historical keyboard instruments, writer, and environmental and social activist.

Life

He fled with his parents because of the Jewish faith in 1938 in the United States. After training as a child psychologist of amateur musicians became one of the first harpsichord maker in the United States. In the late 1950s he created a self-made harpsichord package, known as the Model T - harpsichord, which was sold numerous and worldwide. In 1969 he left for the U.S. policy in Vietnam New York, sold the company, settled in England as a musician and music teacher down. There, he became aware of the many former horse stables, which he described together with Barbara Rose in the book The Mews of London and cataloged.

In 1987 he became an environmental activist employees Ecoplan, a non-profit group based in Paris. He is the author and editor of the New Mobility Agenda. Together with Eric Britton, he developed consumer Holiday - The one day a year we turn off the economy and think about it and the International Buy Nothing Day.

In 1995, he moved to France. Today he lives in Avignon. There he operates alongside its environmental activities, an English-language bookstore and gallery and meeting place for artists.

Zuckermann wrote two books about harpsichords, also environmental and socio-critical books, including two children's books.

Harpsichord for self

In Germany, the company is represented by Zuckermann center. The instruments are sought after because they have the original sound of the early harpsichords, as they were developed in order to obtain a fuller and longer sound. The modern manufactured housing are provided with elaborate carvings or paintings, as the harpsichord, not only as a musical instrument, but also as formerly serving as furnishing. Zuckerman was not limited to the construction and sale of complete instruments but also provides cheap kits for building your own.

Works

• The Modern Harpsichord. October House, 1969 ISBN 0,807,901,652th
• The Modern Harpsichord: Twentieth Century Instruments and Their Makers. Reprint Services Corp, 1986, ISBN 0-685-14859-9.
• The Mews of London: A Guide to the Hidden Byways of London 's Past. together with Barbara Rose, Webb & Bower, London 1982, ISBN 0-03-062419-3.
• End of the Road. Chelsea Green Pub Co, Post Mils, Vermont, 1991, ISBN 0-930031-46-6.
• Family mouse to drive. Cornelsen / Volk und Wissen, 1995, ISBN 3-06-100388-6.
• Alice in Underland. The Olive Press, 2000, ISBN 2-9514588-0-0.