Florian Schneider

Florian Schneider, co-founder and keyboardist in the trailblazing electronic music band Kraftwerk, has passed away from cancer at the age of 73.“Kraftwerk co-founder and electro pioneer Ralf Hütter has sent us the very sad news that his friend and companion over many decades. Florian Schneider has passed away from a short cancer disease just a few days after his 73rd birthday,” the band said in a statement.Schneider and Hütter met in 1968 at the Academy of Arts in Düsseldorf, Germany. The duo formed Kraftwerk in 1970 and initially were part of the krautrock movement in West Germany, experimenting with electronic sounds and psychedelic music. By the mid-seventies, the band fully embraced electronic music; they soon became some of the most important innovators of the genre. Schneider's death was reported on 6 May 2020; he died from cancer after suffering from the illness for a short time on 4/21/2020.