"Schrammelmusik" is addictive. It´s like oil
in the veins. Only two violins, a button accordion and a contraguitar is
needed, but they must play the old dances: not the watered down stuff offered
to bus-loads of tourists every day in the noisy wine bars of Grinzing. Good
music doesn´t prostitute itself. Good music must be searched for. It can
only grow in silence. The soaring notes of the violins, which are soft and
gentle even in the highest register, mingle with the vlevet harmonies of
the squeeze-box and with the dry bass of the contraguitar, a Viennese specially
with two necks. Originally the accordion part was played by a small clarinet
but by the late nineteenth century this was already a rarity. In 1878 two
classically trained violin players. The Schrammel brothers, being short
of money, founded a trio with guitarist Anton Strohmayer called "Die Nußdorfer"
after the suburb of Vienna where they performed. Following their success
many similar bands formed and taverns (Heurigen) where the local wine was
drunk became their venues. Despite its origins in rural dance music "Schrammelmusik"
was never danced to. It was the opposite: the audience came only to sit
and listen. |
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Schrammeln
Soul Music of Old Vienna
CD-0223-E/U |
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LannerQuartett
StrohmayerQuartett
TrocaderoEnsemble
WaldschnepfenTerzett
Schrammelquartett Pepi Wichart
MaximQuartett
Original Wiener Trio
Wiener PiccoloDuett
ZitherQuartett RuppKrause
Quartett Lenz
Neuwirth Extremschrammeln
Soul Music of old Vienna |
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