• Written by Helmut Schwaiger
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Michael Boo was a composer, creative writer and church choir director (vocals and hand bells) from Chesterton, Indiana. He received his…

• Written by Helmut Schwaiger
• Categorised Composer, Recommendations

The WDR honoured the composer on his memorial day with these words: Composer, conductor, pacifist, entertainer, pianist, pedagogue, author – Leonard…

• Written by Helmut Schwaiger
• Categorised Composer, Recommendations

I know you wouldn’t have invited me to your 80s party if you were still alive. You don’t even know me….

• Written by Helmut Schwaiger
• Categorised Composer, Recommendations

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the death of Jimi Hendrix, ZDF broadcast a report on the life of…

• Written by Helmut Schwaiger
• Categorised Composer, Recommendations

In all the works, the roots are unmistakably in his motherland and express in a different way the “moods of his…

• Written by Helmut Schwaiger
• Categorised Composer, Recommendations, Sheet music

On November 19, 1942, the Russians began a pincer-shaped large-scale offensive in Stalingrad in the northwest and south of the city….

• Written by Helmut Schwaiger
• Categorised Composer, Recommendations

On November 14th, Leopold Mozart’s 300th birthday was celebrated. For a long time, the father of Nannerl and Wolfgang was portrayed…

• Written by Helmut Schwaiger
• Categorised Composer, Recommendations

Ten compositions were to be judged anonymously by the jury, in which Paul Hindmarsh, Oliver Waespi and Lucy Pankhurst were represented….

• Written by Helmut Schwaiger
• Categorised Composer, Recommendations

Many call the composition style of the German-born Jacques Offenbach “more French than French” and so he became the most popular…