Dresden dance symphonist

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The Dresdner Tanzsinfoniker was a dance orchestra from Dresden , which existed from 1946 and when it was dissolved in 2002 it was the longest serving European orchestra of its kind.

history

The ensemble was founded at Pentecost 1946 by the pianist Joe Dixie ; it was initially called Original Dixies . When the founder went to the West in 1951, Günther Karpa continued to lead the band and oriented it more towards jazz ; it now bore the name Dresden Dance Symphony Orchestra . In their dance orchestra line-up, the dance symphonists combined the classic big band line-up with a string group. Günter Hörig , who joined the orchestra at the end of 1951 as the successor to Joe Dixie on piano, took over the management of the orchestra in 1953 and maintained his focus on swing and mainstream jazz . The formation included musicians such as Friwi Sternberg , Hans Hempel, Heinz Holek, Lothar Spiller, Manfred Pieper, Siegfried Ludwig, Walter Göpfert, Walter Hartmann , Helmut Vietze , Dieter Walter and Willy Baumgärtel. Under Hörig's direction, the dance symphonists developed into one of the leading orchestras in the field of jazz and dance music in the GDR, which was also internationally renowned. It was also involved in recordings with pop singers such as Gerhard Graul and in film scores (such as Maibowle , Heroin or Rendezvous with unknown ). Part formations of the ensemble were also active, for example the “Modern Sextet of the Dresden Dance Symphony Orchestra” or the “Dixieland Group of the Dresden Dance Symphony Orchestra”.

In 1962, Hörig founded together with some members of the dance symphonists at the Carl Maria von Weber Academy of Music in Dresden the subject of “dance and entertainment music ”, from which today's department “jazz, rock, pop” emerged. Through this initiative of the dance symphonic musicians it was achieved for the first time throughout Germany that an institution offered full training as a jazz or entertainment musician with a diploma.

Discographic notes

  • Dresdner Tanzsinfoniker (conductor Günter Hörig) The portrait ( Amiga 1986)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Forty years of jazz, rock and pop: At the Dresden Carl Maria von Weber University of Applied Sciences , jazz was first played , jazz newspaper 5/2002
  2. ↑ a b The longest-serving big band in our country celebrates its birthday in New Germany April 5, 1986
  3. ↑ cf. also film portal