By Jem Aswad Senior Music Editor Florian Schneider — cofounder of German electronic-music pioneers Kraftwerk, one of the most influential music groups of the past 50 years — has died, a rep for the group confirms to Variety.
He was 73. “Florian Schneider has passed away from a short cancer disease just a few days after his 73rd birthday,” a statement from the group reads. “In the year 1968 Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider started their artistic and musical collaboration. “In 1970 they founded their electronic Kling Klang studio in Düsseldorf [Germany] and started the multi-media project Kraftwerk.
All the Kraftwerk catalogue albums were conceived and produced there. In 2014 Hütter and Schneider were honoured with the Grammy Lifetime
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