Alfons Bauer (composer)

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Alfons Bauer (born May 13, 1920 in Munich -Freundorf; † February 3, 1997 ) was a German composer and zither player .

Life

Alfons Bauer learned to play the zither at the age of 8 and recorded his first record at the age of 15. After leaving school, he first learned the hatmaker's profession , as his parents ran a hatmaker's business. He then studied piano and composition at the Conservatory in Munich . Alfons Bauer mainly worked in the studio and performed less live. For his innovative radio and record productions he put together different line-ups, consisting of professional orchestral musicians. Alfons Bauer and the accordion virtuoso Georg Schwenk, who also arranged numerous titles for him, have been working together for many years. By the 1950s he had sold more than 1 million records with his zither. Then he founded his own record company and worked in the folk music sector. He also wrote titles for other artists, for example for Maria and Margot Hellwig , Hansl Krönauer and Esther Egli . He composed over 200 titles. Alfons Bauer was also very popular in the GDR , where his titles were often played on the radio, especially in the 1950s and 1960s. Many of them also appeared on records. In 1972 he released a record by the famous GDR folk musician Herbert Roth in the Federal Republic of Germany .

Bauer also recorded melodies from Johann Strauss to Robert Stolz and Ralph Benatzky together with the James Last Orchestra and the Berlin Radio Orchestra . Together with Rudi Knabl, he was one of the most successful zither players of the 20th century.

He was married to the singer and folklore dancer Rita born in 1968. Fendt. He has a daughter from his first marriage.

His grave is in the forest cemetery in Gauting .

Honors

Alfons Bauer received numerous awards, including the Hermann Löns Medal in 1975 .

Success title

  • Hello my Munich 1945
  • White-blue 1945
  • Flowers from Bavaria 1948
  • Bavarian homeland 1956
  • Köhlerliesel 1957
  • Holiday Polka 1963

Discography

Albums :

  • Alpine magic
  • On the ALM
  • On the dance floor
  • With a happy zither sound
  • At the Heuriger with ... Alfons Bauer
  • The large potpourri of native songs
  • The big potpourri of hiking songs
  • The most beautiful dulcimer music
  • The most beautiful string music 2 (& Horst Ramthor / Rita Bauer)
  • The zither, the waltz and the wine
  • An alpine greeting with Lolita & Alfons Bauer
  • A Bavarian in Paris (& Rene-Maquet, Georg Schwenk)
  • A large bouquet of Alfons Bauer melodies
  • Festive house music
  • Happy zither sounds (with Rudi Knabl)
  • For friends of the zither episode 2
  • Golden Schrammel sounds with ... Alfons Bauer
  • Golden zither sounds
  • In the happy zither sound
  • In the mug with the green wreath Schrammelmusik
  • Moscow nights
  • Party with Alfons (with sextet)
  • Schrammelmusi (with Ferry Gruber)
  • Singing sounding alpine country (with the Weilheimer Vier and the Sterntaler Musikanten)
  • Sunday concert (with the Great Radio Orchestra Berlin)
  • Caruso of the Mountains (together with Sepp viellechner )
  • Alfons Bauer plays
  • Alfons Bauer plays Robert Stolz
  • Alfons Bauer plays everlasting Freundorf melodies
  • Alfons Bauer and his Almdudler
  • From the Isar valley to the Tegernsee
  • Waltz King and Zither King
  • Wildschütz Jennerwein
  • Waldmünchener Polka

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gerd Otto-Rieke: Graves in Bavaria. Munich 2000, p. 72.
personal data
SURNAME Bauer, Alfons
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and zither player
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich -Freundorf
DATE OF DEATH February 3, 1997