Florian Fricke (born February 23, 1944 in Lindau am Bodensee, Germany; died December 29, 2001 in Munich) was a German musician who started his professional career with electronic music within the Krautrock group Popol Vuh, although his music soon evolved in a very different direction. February 23 is the 54th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Year 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1944 calendar). ... December 29 is the 363rd day of the year (364th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 2 days remaining. ... 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Krautrock is a generic name for the experimental bands who appeared in Germany in the late 1960s. ... Popol Vuh is a German cosmic music band founded by pianist and keyboardist Florian Fricke in 1970 together with Holger Trulzsch (percussion) and Frank Fiedler (electronics). ...

Florian Fricke started playing piano as a child. He studied piano, composition and directing at the Conservatories in Frieburg and Munich. At 18 he filmed some short amateur films. He later became a movie and music critic for the German magazine Der Spiegel. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

In 1967 he met German film director Werner Herzog and played a role in his first movie "Lebenszeichen". Fricke was later responsible for the soundtracks of several of Herzog's movies, among them Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (with Klaus Kinski and Bruno Ganz), Aguirre, the Wrath of God and Heart of Glass. Werner Herzog passionately singing a traditional Croatian ode of love to beautiful Serbian girls who he wants to take to Germany to have German babies with. ... Klaus Kinski. ... (born March 22, 1941 in Zurich) is a Swiss actor. ... Aguirre, the Wrath of God (German: Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes) is a 1972 German film written and directed by Werner Herzog. ... Heart of Glass Experimental film for which director Werner Herzog had the entire cast, except for the actor playing a seer (and real-life glass blowers appearing in the film), hypnotized before each shooting. ...

Fricke was one of the first musicians to own and use a Moog synthesizer, with which he recorded Popol Vuh's first two albums "Affestunde" and "In den Gärten Pharaos. He later significantly gave the Moog to fellow German musician Klaus Schulze. The term Moog (pronounced /moÊŠg/ to rhyme with vogue, not /muːg/) synthesizer can refer to any number of analog synthesizers designed by Dr. Robert Moog or manufactured by Moog Music, and is commonly used as a generic term for analog and digital music synthesisers. ... Klaus Schulze is a German electronic art music composer and musician. ...

In 1970, together with Holger Truelsch and Frank Fiedler, he founded the group Popol Vuh. The name is taken from the Maya's Book of the Dead. The German group should not be confused with the homonymous rock band from Norway. Fricke was the leader of the group until is death, always together with guitarist and drummer Daniel Fichelscher. Fricke also recorded an album of Mozart composition. The word Maya or maya can refer to: // The Maya, Native American peoples of southern Mexico and northern Central America Maya peoples, the contemporary indigenous peoples Maya civilization, their historical pre-Columbian civilization Mayan languages, the family of languages spoken by the Maya Maya people, an Australian Aboriginal tribe Maya... Daniel Fichelscher was, for most of their history, Florian Frickes only stable partner in the German Avantgarde group Popol Vuh. ... Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (January 27, 1756 – December 5, 1791) was one of the most significant and influential of all composers of Western classical music. ...

Together with former Popol Vuh member Frank Fiedler, who was a competent cameraman, Fricke produced a series of films set in the Sinai desert, in Israel, Lebanon, Mesopotamia, Morocco, Afghanistan, Tibet and Nepal. In the 1990 he organized audio/video installations, among them "Messa di Orfeo" in the Italian City of Molfetta.

Fricke died of a heart attack at the age of 57 in Munich.