Biography
Sometime during puberty he realised that Beethoven, Brahms, Mussorgski and Rachmaninow were no longer enough and, while his friends were being wowed by the Beatles and Jimi Hendrix, Thomas Meyer occupied himself with Debussy and Strawinsky, Bartók and Messiaen, fascinated by the luminosity of their colours and the forcefulness of their rhythms. And so, step-by-step, sometimes even in leaps and bounds, he entered the avant-garde. Meyer also attended the musicological seminars of the composer Ulirch Lehmann parallel to his law studies at the University of Zurich. The Law lectures were soon replaced altogether by the lectures of Kurt von Fischer in musicology and literary criticism with Werner Weber. Luckily, music and criticism merged effortlessly to produce a breadwinning combination. He soon became a music journalist with the Zurich Tages-Anzeiger, later with Radio DRS 2, in the area of new music but with an interest also in music of the classical era back through to the Middle Ages and very quickly in the open fields and on to improvisation, jazz, installation, action, film and multimedia. One should do ones best not to obstruct the view; the border is the individual comprehension and spatial-temporal indivisibility of a person. Thomas Meyer lives with his family near Zurich.
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