Editing Andreas Vollenweider (section)

==Early life==
Vollenweider was born on 4 October 1953 in [[Zürich]], Switzerland,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/andreas-vollenweider-mn0000037212/biography|title=Andreas Vollenweider Biography, Songs, & Albums|website=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=17 October 2021}}</ref> and is the son of Hans Vollenweider (1918–1993), an organist and composer, while his mother was a painter.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Vollenweider-Hans.htm|title = Hans Vollenweider (Organ)|date = July 2010|access-date =2 October 2014|website = Bach Cantatas website|publisher = Aryeh Oron|last = Montgomery|first = Shaun}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite journal|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=JCQEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT1|title = Vollenweider Doesn't Harp on His Success|last = Sutherland|first = Sam|date = November 17, 1984|journal = Billboard Magazine|access-date =2 October 2014}}</ref> In 1971, he married Beata, a kindergarten teacher,<ref name=":5" /> with whom he has two sons (Jonathan and Sebastian) and a daughter, Noëmi.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.morgenpost.de/printarchiv/wwbm/article294357/Dreiundzwanzig-Sonntagsfragen-an-Andreas-Vollenweider-Elektro-Harfenist.html|title = Dreiundzwanzig Sonntagsfragen an Andreas Vollenweider, Elektro-Harfenist|date =19 November 2006|access-date =2 October 2014|website = Berliner Morgenpost}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.coopzeitung.ch/125630|title = Andreas Vollenweider: Aus der Reserve|date =11 August 2011|access-date =2 October 2014|website = Coop Zeitung|last = Hönle|first = Reinhold}}</ref> In 1975, Vollenweider discovered the harp and, finding its traditional versions too limited for his own musical ideas, developed his own style, tailoring the instrument according to his needs. He created the electro-acoustic harp.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.zhdk.ch/?ca_avo090|title = ZhdK: Andreas Vollenweider|date = March 2010|access-date =2 October 2014|website = Zürcher Hochschule der Künste|url-status = dead|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141006095544/http://www.zhdk.ch/?ca_avo090|archive-date =6 October 2014}}</ref> He formed the trio ''Poesie und Musik'' together with Rene Bardet (bass) and Orlando Valentini (guitar), recording interpretations of the poetry of [[François Villon]] and [[Heinrich Heine]], but left in 1978.<ref>[https://portal.dnb.de/opac.htm?method=simpleSearch&query=134321251 ''Poesie und Musik''] in the catalog of the Deutschen National Bibliothek</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.library.umass.edu/hosted-projects/heine/symposium-talk/|title = Musical settings of Heinrich Heine's political poetry|date = December 12, 1999|access-date =2 October 2014|website = UMass Amherst Libraries|publisher = Goethe Institut in New York City|last = Shea|first = Peter W.|url-status = dead|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120126105905/http://www.library.umass.edu/hosted-projects/heine/symposium-talk/|archive-date =26 January 2012}}</ref> During this period, Vollenweider also wrote music for film, mainly nature documentaries.<ref>{{Cite journal|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=W-XEpPcqekMC&pg=PA73|title = New Sounds|last = Schaefer|first = John|date = October 1985|journal = Spin Magazine|access-date =2 October 2014}}</ref>