Electronic music pioneer, Florian Schneider is dead

Florian Schneider — cofounder of German electronic-music pioneers Kraftwerk, one of the most influential music groups of the past 50 years — has died after a brief battle with cancer, a rep for the group confirmed. 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 Hutter and Florian Schneider started their artistic and musical collaboration. In 1970 they founded their electronic Kling Klang studio in Dusseldorf [Germany] and started the multi-media project Kraftwerk.

 All the Kraftwerk catalogue albums were conceived and produced there. In 2014 Hutter and Schneider were honored with the Grammy Lifetime Achievement award."