When I was a teenager, in the 1960s, the future lay ahead: student revolts demanded a better distribution between young and old and between the genders. The moon landing promised a brilliant technical development. Rock and pop music broke the shackles of tradition.
Is the future in the past? Weiterlesen »
Eibl’s numerous compositions and instrumentations have found and continue to find particular favour at home and abroad. He also won several composition prizes. Among other things, he also wrote a textbook for wind conductors and made an instructional video. In 1957 he joined the Salzburg Military Music as a clarinetist.
Prof. Hans Eibl died Weiterlesen »
Tags make it easier for you to search for program topics that go beyond the normal search in subcategories (film music, overtures, waltzes, etc.). Since our last newsletter, members have suggested numerous subject areas that have since been added to a “tags list”. This is now provisionally available and it
“Good Tags” – Episode Three Weiterlesen »
Advertising is annoying…but isn’t this letter also advertising? No, this is information from your “Society for Music Information” as operator of the sheet music database www.musicainfo.net. And this letter is to inform you that with over 10,700 Concertband works many data were supplemented, namely:
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The German composer and arranger Roland Kreid passed away on 22 May 2019. Born in Langenbach near Karlsruhe in 1953, Roland Kreid was already a member of the local music club at the age of 11. Due to his particularly good talent Roland Kreid joined the military music of the
German composer Roland Kreid died Weiterlesen »
“Fake news is fake news. Messages that want to influence, messages that push the recipient in a certain direction. In former times this was called “propaganda”. The communists made propaganda about capitalism and vice versa…
“Fake News” in the sheet music database? Weiterlesen »
So, is the team of www.musicainfo.net on the lazy skin? Do they indulge in idleness? What’s the matter, I can’t find last week’s new release in the sheet music database! Someone might think this, if new releases are not immediately found in your music information database. The motto of our
We are not the fastest…. Weiterlesen »
In the last newsletter we reported about the plan to add tags to our database. In addition to keywords, with which you can already select, tags are used to find works with a certain subject area. Several members have told us “good tags”, with which they have put together a
Reactions to “good tags” Weiterlesen »
A concert speaker who has nothing to say? No matter whether a programme booklet or a speaker on stage: an explanation of the individual works is always in demand. This information should be factual and perhaps spiced with a little humour. The texts shouldn’t be too long and still arouse curiosity about the coming work. Not too easy, right? Don’t worry, we help you out!
When you have nothing to say…. Weiterlesen »
More than 50 feature films and over 300 television productions bore the musical signature of Martin Böttcher. The German radio station praised the composer with the words “He was one of the greats of German entertainment, television and film music. His compositional handwriting is unmistakable, his sound unmistakable. The melodies
Film music composer Martin Böttcher died at the age of 91. Weiterlesen »
