Compositions by authors under the zodiac sign of Aries are powerful, strong and impetuous. Composers under the sign of Aries were born between 21 March and 20 April. During this spring-like period, the day and night equinox takes place on 20 March, and the following day the ram enters the…
In the zodiac sign of Aries Weiterlesen »
Topic at the 2nd Styrian Symphonic Band Congress: Literature Selection for Film Music-Musical-Pop (Lecturer Anton Mauerhofer) It is precisely this topic around popular music that is discussed very differently in brass music circles. But if you take a closer look at the subject, you will find very different music. I
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Otto Strobl worked as a music teacher, choir director and organist in Eisenstadt (Austria). Strobl had a family musical background, his father was a cantor-teacher of the village, so he combined church music and secular education in his work and passed on his knowledge to his son, his mother was
Music teacher, choirmaster and organist Otto Strobl died Weiterlesen »
Celebrate composers in the anniversary year 2019 In March 2019, we commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of some composers. They were born in March 1919: Hubert Camenzind, (Gersau, Swiss): Camenzind was a clarinetist and saxophonist. After he had started his ten-year activity in a silk spinning mill in
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Michel Legrand died at the age of 86 in Paris The French composer and three-time Oscar winner Michel Legrand is dead. As several French media reported, referring to his press spokesman, Legrand, famous for his film music, died in Paris on Saturday night at the age of 86. Legrand’s first
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Music download was at the beginning of the Internet until well beyond the first decade of this century often a criminal activity. Various copyright regulations have now legalized these possibilities and many publishers and music producers now offer this form of legal trade themselves. For some months now you have been able to find a link to these legal sites on certain works, where you can – for a fee – buy the whole work or parts of it and print it yourself. Some publishers have price differences between print and download editions, others have the same price. We have no influence on this. But the advantage is that with many downloads you can also buy individual voices. This is practical and works fast and unproblematic.
Over 2400 wind orchestra works are already included in the download list…
Download or mail – that’s the question now Weiterlesen »
Generation change in the board of the Music Information Association In June 2018 the youngest general assembly of our organization “Music Information Association” took place. In this connection a generation change was decided at the association. In order to guarantee a smooth transition, a one-year transition phase is agreed for
New Board of Directors of the ‘Music Information Association’ Weiterlesen »
Der “Verein für Musikinformation” ist ein gemeinnützige Vereinigung interessierter Musiker. Viel unterstützen den Verein durch Mitgliedsbeiträge, andere durch Bestellungen über die Datenbank, durch die der Verein zusätzliche Einnahmen erzielen kann. Vieles im Internet wird als Gratis-Service angeboten. Aber tatsächlich gratis ist fast nichts. Sicher verwenden auch Sie Google oder eine andere Suchmaschine.
Free on the Internet? Not really! Weiterlesen »
Hans Hütten was a composer with broad compositional skills. On 20.10.2018 the composer Hans Hütten, popular in Germany, died in his hometown Cotbus. Hütten, who was born in 1943 in Nossens near Meissen, was a trumpeter in the then pioneer wind orchestra Meissen from 1954 to 1957. From 1957-1961 he
WASBE announces the second edition of the WASBE Composition Competition. The International Composition Contest is an initiative sponsored by WASBE that is open to composers from around the world. The concept is to encourage both young and experienced composers to write original compositions of high artistic merit for the school/educational
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