Hohner 1955 Tour Program

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On the ploteou of the Boor, between Blgq!_Eofest_g_nd_Alb, not for from the
source of the l',]9c!gr, there is the busy town of Trossingen, the world-centre
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for the monuT6cture of mouthorgons ond occoIdl66Eit isTnE-of l6e
yorffit cTGlnTiobio. Very neor to old wooden houses with shingle-scole
cosing, reminding us of the modesty of our grondfothers, there ore now
foctory holls ond modern privote homes, evidence of the ossiduity of the
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grondsons.
There wos formerly olso the "Z.eughousle", the little cottoge where the first
hormonico moker, Christion Messner, wos working, the mon who become
the founder
so to speok
of the world-wide hormonico industry. There
Hohner, o wotchmoker ond wotch deoler
wos olso the- home of Motthios
who become the founder of todoy's Motthios Hohner A.G.
The rood from
the
the first primitive mouthorgons till the highly developed mosterpiece
Hohner occordion
wos long, steep ond strenuous. The developngjllook
the occordion is ployed in ollfive ports o{ the world.
olmoit o century. Todoy,
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Motthios Hohner, the pioneer of the occordion, hos storted o new 6poch
for musicol proctice with his croftsmon-like production of musicol instruments. Nowodoys, Trossingen is the heort of the new hormonico movement.
From this ptoce storted the musicol-culturol trends, ond they hove helped
to moke the occordion o greot success. Every yeor, the Accordion Acodemy
is troining obout 100 occordion teochers who ore going to found new schoolclosses oll over the world in order to teoch ond to propogote the culturolly
ond ortisticolly improved ploying f,of the occordion. Porollel with the
technicol improvement of the occordon, o new ond ortisticolly voluoble
set of musicol compositions wos creoted, thereby moking it possible for
the occordion to enter the concert-holl.
The conductor of the
Hohner-Symphony-Accordion-Orchestro, Rudolf
got their troining ot the Trossingen Accordion
olso
his
soloists
Wurthner, ond
the diplomqts ond ombossodors of mttsic
them
Acodemy.fWe might coll
who coriy the spirit of the Trossingen Acodemy ocross the world. 7 This
outstonding orchestro hos performed with unprecedented success in' muclr
more thon 9OO concerts. Wherever the Hohner-Symphony-AccordionOrchestro hos ployed, the oudience wos foscinoted by its unique performonces
ond gove them rousing cheers/ no motter where it wos: in Denmorl< or
Germony, in Greot Britoin, Fronce, Hollond, Austrio, P-ortugol, Spoin'
Switzerlond, North Africo, or in ony other country./Whot Boyreuth meons
to the Wogner odmirers, Strotford-on-Avon to the followers of Shokespeore,
the Mecco
Sclzburg to those veneroting Mozort, t-hot meons Trossingen
occordion
of
students
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professors
virtuosos,
to
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of the occordion
music in oll Ports of the world.
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The One and, only
Symphony
Aeeordion
OITIlTSTHA
Musical Director and Conductort
RUDOLF WURTHNER
Conduclor:.
KARL PERENTHALER
with
WURTHNER ACC()RDION QUINTET
and
BOLF GTASS CIIR()M()NICA TRI()
Soloists:
R. Wurthner, Karl
Perenthaler, S. Stegmann,
Rolf
Glass.
Repertoire Chopin, Liszt, de Falla, Olfenbach, Tschaikowsky,
Debussy,
Coates, Smetana, Strauss. Original and Popular Music.
Ooer 900 Concerts /n: Paris, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Berlin, Madrid, Lisbon, Africa
and other countries.
1956: South America, North America, Canada, Mexico.
NEW ZEALAND
TOUR,
BT]IIOLB IYUBTHNNB
Musical Director and Conductor,
BT]IIOLB }YURTIIITBR
Masieal lDireetor and' Condaetor
Budoll Wurthner is the conductor por excellence becouse he
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is aided by his generol music studies, which mqde cr Iirst-rqte
teqcher out oI him, cnd, through hord work on the occordion,
he olso become one ol Europe's leoding virtuosi.
His porents gove him his lirst occordion when he wos live
yeors old. it wos q two-row diotonic button instrument. Four
yeors loter he begon tuition under the Grond OId Mqn oI
qccordion ploying in Germony, Alon Helm, ond it wos not long
belore he wos ollowed to come olong when HeIm took his
occordion orchestro on tcur.
Alter lecving school, Wurthner got himsell opprenticed with
Motth. Hohner to learn the moking oI occordions. His oppren"
ticeship wos trogicclly interrupted when he suflered serious
injuries in cn occident, os the result oI vrrhich he lost the use
ol the greqter pcrt ol his right hond. However, his toughness
ond energy enobled him to overcome this enormous setbdck'
He proctised until he monoged to ploy his occordion upside
down, right hand on the boss buttons, left hand on the treble'
Thot
in itsell is qn
olmost superhumon effort.
About thst time, some of his youthlul compositions come to
the notice oI ProI. Herrmqnn. He must hove thought quite o
lot ol them, becquse he immediotely orronged for the enrol'
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THEY'RE
rnent oI Rudol{ qt the Accordion Accdemy' Alter possing his
finql exqms, Wurthner become teqcher qt the Acsdemy' until
the outbreqk oI wor interrupted his work there' AIter the wor'
he weni bock ond took over teoching the soloists' closs'
Although teoching took up o greqt port oI his time' Wurthner
coi'rtinued to develop his technique on the occordion' In 1948 he
won second ploce at the Internqtionql Accordion Championship
at Lcrusonne, Switzerlqnd, lor which qchievement the Confederoiion Internotionole des Accordeonistes bestowed on him the
honorory title ol Internotionql Virtuoso.
Rudoll Wurthner hos been conductor ol the Hohner Accor'
dion Symphony Orchestro since its inception in 1947' He hos led
the orchestlq ftom success to success in numerous Europeon
cities, qnd they hqve oppeored on severol occqsions ot Heidelberg, Stuttgcrt, Munich, Fronkfurt, Homburg, Berlin' Dusseldor{'
Porls, Lyons, Morseilles, London, Zurich, Copenhcgen' Stockholm'
Lisbon, Oporto, Mqdrid, Borcelonq, Sqn Sebostion, Algiers' Coso'
blonco qnd Tunis, to mention only ihe more importont towns'
The story ol RudoII Wurthner would be incomplete without
re{erence to his work os o composer. His music, which belongs
to the clossicol style, is chorocterised by beoutilul melodles'
pleosont hormonies ond severely logicol counterpoint'
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Accordion Soloisl and Second
Conductor
Leqder o{ the orchestrq ond ossistqnt
conductor
is KqrI Perenthaler, one of
the world's greotest occordion virtuosi,
He wos Germqn Accordion Chompion
in 1952, ond belongs to thot type oI
ployer who mqsters the wide Iield oI
clossics, os well os the even greqter
Iield oI dqnce music.
Perentholer is q member oI the Wurth-
ner Quintet, qnd, oi course, is
Ieotured os q soloist.
BOLB GLASS
Harmonica Soloisl
Another interesting personolity with
the orchestrq is chromotic hormonico
soloist Roll G1ass. He mqde q nome
for himself when he toured Switzerlqnd
in 1947, qnd hqs since oppeored regu'
lorly on Europecn rodio, ond hqs mqde
numerous recordings,
Gloss joined the Hohner Accordion
Symphony Orchestro os hqrmonicq
soloist in 1949, ond hos toured with
them since then.
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Musical Director and Conduclor: RUDOLF WURTHNER.
; KARL PERENTHALER.
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Soloisls:
RUDOLF WURTHNER, Accordion.
KARL PERENTHALER, Accordion.
ROLF GLASS, Chromonica.
oniluctor
Prolramme No.
1
Cod Soue The Queen
Orchestro:
Toccata and Fugue in D Minor
Entr'acte Music from "Rosamunde
Korl Perentholer, Accordion-Solo:
La Campanella (On a theme of Paganini)
Orchestro:
To the Spring
"The Barber of Seville"
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Pictures at an Exhibition
(.)
Rudolf 'Wurthner
Edvard Grieg
C. Rossini
INTERVAL
Orchestro:
(a) Promenade
(b) The Market
Franz Schubert
C. M. van Weber
Invitation to the Dance
Overture to
J. S. Bach
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M. P.
Moussorgsky
Place at Limoges
(Fierce Quarrel of the Market Women)
The OId Castle
(d) Ballet of the Chickens in their Egg-Shells
(") Bydlo
(f)
(Polish Ox-Cart with enormous rattling wheels).
The Large Gate of Kiev
Rolf GIoss, Chromonicq, with Orchestrol Accomponiment:
Hejre Kati
J. HubaY
Orchestro:
Dance of the Hours
Rudolf Wurthner, Accordion-Solo, with Orchestrol Accomponiment:
Hungarian
Fantasy
Franz Liszt
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Musical Director and Conductor: RUDOLF WURTHNER.
KARL PERENTHALER.
RUDOLF WURTHNER, Accordion.
KARL PERENTHALER, Accordion.
Assistant Conductor:
Soloisls:
ROLF GLASS,
Chromonica.
Prolramme No. 2
Cod Saoe The
Queen
Orchestrs:
Overture
Arioso
to "The Magic Flute'
W. A. Mozart
G. Fr. Handel
Korl Perentholer, Accordion-Solo:
Variations on a Russian Folk-Song
Rudolf Wurthner
Orchestro:
"Eine Kleine Nachtmusik"
(Allegro-Romance-Minuet-Rondo ) .
Serenade
W. A. Mozart
Accordion Qriintet, Rudolf Wurthner:
Nocturne
Sabre Dance
Fr. Chopin
A.
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Khachaturian
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Orchestro:
Polovtsian Dances (From "Prince
Igor)
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Alexander Borodin
Rolf Gtoss, Chromonico, with Orchestrol Accomponiment:
Romance in F Major
L. van Beethoven
Orchestrq:
'Waltz
from "Der
Rosenkavalier"
Richard Strauss
Rudolf wurthner, Accordion-solo, with orchestror Accomponiment:
Slavonic Fantasy
R. Wurthner
Orchestro:
Overture "Orpheus in the Underworld"
J. Ollenbach
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Aeeordion
Musical Direclor and Conduclor: RUDOLF WURTHNER.
KARL PERENTHALER.
Assistant Conductor:
Soloisls:
KARL PERENTHALER.
SIEGFRIED STEGMANN, Electronium.
AND THE ROLF GLASS CHROMONICA TRIO.
Pro$ramme No, 3
Cod Saue The Queen
Orchestro:
Overture to "The Thieving Magpie"
Intermezzo
G. Rossini
P. Mascagni
sinfonico
Korl Perentholer, Accordion-Solo:
Fantasy on Airs from "Carmen" (Bizet)
R.'lVurthner
Orchestro:
B Minor (The Unflnished)
Allegro Moderato-Andante con moto.
Symphony No. 8 in
Franz Schubert
INTERVAL
Orchestro:
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
Franz Liszt
Rolf Gloss, Chromonico Trio:
Gavotte
Gossec
Marusja
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Hans Zander
(Russian tone picture).
Orchestro:
London Suite
(a) Covent Garden.
Eric
Nocturne
W. A. Mozart
Coates
(b) Westminster.
(c) Knightsbridge.
Overture to "William
Tell" ..............
G. Rossini
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Musical Director and Conduc,or: RUDOLF 'WURTHNER.
Assistant Conductor : KARL PERENTHALER.
Soloisls: RUDOLF WURTHNER, Accordion.
KARL PERENTHALER, Accordion.
ROLF GLASS, Chromonica.
Prolramme No. 4.
Cod Saoe The Queen
Orchestro:
Italien
Maria
Capriccio
P. Tchaikowsky
Ave
Bach-Gounod
Korl Perentholer, Accordion-Solo:
J.
Sibelius
A.
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INTERVAL
Borodin
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Hungarian March from "The Damnation of Faust"
Bolero
Rolf Gloss, Chromonico Solo:
Nejre Kati
In a Persian Market
......
H. Berlioz
M. Ravel
J. Hubay
W.
Ketelby
Rudolf Wurthner, Accordion-Solo, with Orchestrol Accomponiment:
F. Liszt
Hungarian Fantasy
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Symphony
Aeeordion
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Musical Director and Conductor: RUDOLF WURTHNER.
: KARL PERENTHALER.
Soloisls: RUDOLF WURTHNER, Accordion.
KARL PERENTHALER, Accordion.
ROLF GLASS, Chromonica.
Assistant
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Pro$ramme
Cod Saoe The Queen
G. Rossini
C. M. Van Weber
Rudolf 'Wurthner
J.
Strauss
A.
Helm
F.
Liszt
Rudolf 'lVurthner
INTERVAL
,/
Keler Bela
P.
Sarasate
J.
Strauss
Lara
Monti
"Orpheus in the Underworld"
J. Olfenbach
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