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Friedrich Jürgenson
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Friedrich Jürgenson (1903-1987) was born in Odessa on February 8th, 1903. His mother was Swedish and his father was of Danish descent, practising as a physician in Odessa where the family had moved from Estonia. After living through World War One and the Russian Revolution as a child, Jürgenson trained as a painter at the Art Academy and as a singer and musician at the Odessa Conservatory, where he was a contemporary of the concerto pianist Svjatoslav Richter. In 1925 the family was allowed to move back to Estonia where Friedrich continued his training as a singer and painter and shortly afterwards he moved to Berlin for more studies. Here his tutor was the bass-singer Tito Scipa. Scipa, a Jew, fled to Palestine in 1932 and Jürgenson accompanied him, staying for 6 years. During this period while still studying he made a living as a singer and painter and some forecast a successful career in opera for him. In 1938 Jürgenson left Palestine for Milan for more studying and performances. In 1943 when he went to visit his parents, the colder climate caused him serious health problems and his voice was partly damaged, so he decided to give up his professional opera career to concentrate entirely on painting. He was a realist painter, mostly doing portraits, landscapes and still life. Driven out by war in that year he moved to Sweden. Located in Stockholm, he married and became a Swedish citizen. Here he also learnt his tenth language. During the following years he painted portra
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From The Studio For Audioscopic Research
Okkulte Stimmen - Mediale Musik: Recordings Of Unseen Intelligences 1905-2007
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From The Studio For Audioscopi
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Singt für uns
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Big Ears - Fitzgerald's Manifesto
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Okkulte Stimmen - Mediale Musik [Disc 3]
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Disc 3 - paranormal music / raps and haunting phenomena / electric voice phenomena
Okkulte Stimmen Mediale Musik: Recordings of Unseen Intelligences 1905-2007
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Okkulte Stimmen - Mediale Musik
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Spirits, Apparitions and Audio Phantasms
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Big Ears