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Thread #94700   Message #1835237
Posted By: Wolfgang
15-Sep-06 - 10:08 AM
Thread Name: German Gypsy music
Subject: RE: German Gypsy music
'Zigeunerweisen' (Weise being a very old word for 'tune') is old fashioned, a better search word is 'Zigeunermusik', even more modern (thougn not good in a syearch) 'Romamusik'.

The first name that comes to mind is of course Schnuckenack Reinhardt (a href=http://musik.ciao.de/Musik_Deutscher_Zigeuner_Vol_Schnuckenack_Quintet_Reinhardt__1452420>click for a selection of his recordings) playing brilliantly (his title) "Music of German Gypsies".

I recently started an obit: Schuckenack. Despite the murderous 'inclinations' of my forefathers he and many of his family survived as "Hungarian musicians".

Wolfgang