The official AHF Third Reich music quiz thread

[Teppeny]

Good answer! It was really easy !
Your turn now !

[Auceps]

Thanks, Teppeny!

My question would be a bit complicated: Which pretty famous march and salon music composer (non-Jewish) was officially proclaimed as 'unwelcome' for the Waffen-SS bands? A small hint: His most famous march has a Latin title.

[Tretyak]

Is it perhaps Ernst Urbach with his "Per aspera ad astra"?

[Auceps]

Correct! His music was considered 'unwelcome', because, according to the official ordinance of the SS-FHA from January 20, 1942, his compositions and arrangements 'distort' standart compositions of the German musical repertoire in 'escpecially kitchy and disrespectful manner' and make them to a corner stone of 'cheap and completely outmoded salon medleys'.

Your turn!

[Tretyak]

Okay!) An easy one: though this composer had achieved great success with his music for Olympic games of 1936, he was heavily attacked in the next year after the premiere of his new opus. What was it and why did it happen?

[D-General]

I’m guessing this would be Richard Strauss, he was heavily attacked since he had a Jewish daughter in law and his grandchildren were also Jewish, also he was using his influence as President of the Reichsmusikkamer to protect them.

[Tretyak]

Unfortunately not, this isn't him. ''My'' composer is much younger, but he was also born in Munich, so you were close!

[Maikowski]

I would say Carl Orff and his Carmina Burana because of some erotic content and an alleged russian influence.
Cheers
Maiko

[Tretyak]

I would say Carl Orff and his Carmina Burana because of some erotic content and an alleged russian influence.
Cheers
Maiko

Yes, absolutely right!

[Maikowski]

Thank you Tretyak !

Hi everyone !
I hope you all had a merry Christmas. Please receive my apologies for the delay in posting this new question...
Now you will have to identify this song, here interpreted by Carl Woitschach's Blasorchester :


Good luck and a happy New Year to all of you !
Maiko

[Ivan Ž.]

Ha, I've been playing this song often lately, after a very long time I completely forgot about it previously, and then I couldn't get it out of my head. But I'll let someone else identify it

(A good version, by the way, which I haven't heard before; all recordings by that chorus [13/20] are very rare, I've heard only two so far.)

Happy New Year, everyone!
Ivan

[Auceps]

Hello and happy New Year everyone!

I guess it'd be 'Der Luftschutz auf der Wacht' by Werner Günther and Carl Echtermeier (another, more famous recording was made by Grammophon-Orchester in 1935 or so).

Cheers,
Auceps

[Maikowski]

I guess it'd be 'Der Luftschutz auf der Wacht' by Werner Günther and Carl Echtermeier (another, more famous recording was made by Grammophon-Orchester in 1935 or so).

Congratulations Auceps ! You win !
I should say you both win since Ivan immediately recognized the song too and the choir of SA-Sturm 13/20 "Kurt Eckert" on my Gloria GO-13073 record...

It is your turn now, my dear Auceps !
Cheers
Maiko

[Auceps]

Thank you, Maiko! I agree, Ivan also gave a small hint with that.

My question would be as follows: Hans Baumann's song 'Es zittern die morschen Knochen' was also arranged by him [probably not by him, see the note below - Ivan Ž.] to another musical genre (which included the song in it too). What was the particular name of that genre?

Cheers,
Auceps

[Maikowski]

Hello Auceps !

Was it not a 'Marschfantasie' (über ein Kampflied) ?

Cheers
Maiko