Toni Stricker

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Toni Stricker (born April 4, 1930 in Vienna ) is an Austrian composer and violinist .

biography

At the age of 6 Toni Stricker got his first violin and lessons. Later he continued his education at the Vienna Conservatory. Due to his family roots, which lie on his mother's side in Vienna and on his father's side in Sigleß in Burgenland , he grew up with Viennese dances and Croatian songs.

In 1953 Stricker became a member of the jazz band Vera Auer and played there with Joe Zawinul , Attila Zoller and Hans Salomon . He played regularly with his first own quintet in Vienna and Kitzbühel and made his first radio and vinyl recordings. He played as a soloist with the orchestras Carl de Groof , Erwin Halletz and Johannes Fehring . Stricker became the epitome of the swing violinist. From 1957 he toured with his own formation and played between Innsbruck and Davos as well as Zurich and Geneva until he finally ended up in Fatty George 's legendary saloon and then performed together with Bill Grah , Heinz Grah and Bob Blumenhoven for four years .

Toni Stricker now also began to compose: dance music, Viennese songs and jazz. Tours, television appearances and gala concerts across Europe also took place. After the restless touring life, Stricker became concert master at the Theater an der Wien . He also worked with Johannes Fehring in Vienna, with Paul Kuhn in Berlin, with Franz Thon and Rolf Kühn in Hamburg, with Willi Stech in Freiburg and with Hans Hammerschmid and Max Greger in Munich. In addition to composing, Stickers played, arranged and produced. The list of his partners is like a "who's who" of show business: Peter Alexander , Hans Moser , Fritz Muliar , Paul Hörbiger , Elfriede Ott , Helmut Qualtinger , Kurt Sowinetz , Leherb and Lotte Profohs, Arik Brauer , Heinz Ehrenfreund , Michael Heltau , Ludwig Hirsch , Shirley Bassey , Marianne Mendt , René Kollo , Anneliese Rothenberger , his friends Erika Pluhar and André Heller - to name the most important ones.

In 1974 Toni Stricker left his concertmaster's desk in Vienna, produced the Strings and Bones series together with Erich Kleinschuster, and Viennese song records were recorded with his "Toni Stricker-Schrammeln". In 1976, however, he stopped working as a contract musician. Two friends stood by his side, both professionally and privately, when he made the motto "Become essential" his model: Gottfried Kumpf , who was also decisive for Toni Stricker and his family moving to Bad Sauerbrunn in 1977 , and André Heller , with one of them twelve years of collaboration followed.

Toni Stricker recorded the trend-setting LP with guitarist Peter Marinoff , a long-time musical companion: "Pannonian Ballads and Viennese Dances", for which he received the German Record Prize in 1981 . With André Heller as producer, the successful albums Bread and Wine and Harvest were created , two popular successes, which became an impetus for his subsequent compositions: he composed the music for the ballet Der Purbacher Türk by Maria Plachky for the Jeunesse ballet of the Vienna State Opera , zu Herzmanovsky Orlando's Der Gaulschreck im Rosennetz , for the fairy tale Daniel and the Fairies and The Nut Bear by Christine Kövesi.

In 1979 he wrote the soundtrack for Maximilian Schell 's film version Tales from the Vienna Woods , for the television series Ringstrasse Palais , for the Peter Rosegger film Der Waldbauernbub and for the international TV production Der Leutnant und seine Richter .

In all the hustle and bustle of TV appearances, gala evenings and concerts, the LP Erdverbunden was created - a work of touching simplicity and maturity, paying homage to the Pannonian landscape. The album Ornamente followed in 1988, followed by the LP Confession in 1990 . In 1991 a new series of concerts was launched, the success of which has continued to this day: together with concert guitarist and musical partner Michael Hintersteininger , the concert series Magic of a Landscape - Magic of a Violin started in the picturesque ambience of the mountain church of Donnerskirchen .

In the following years - in addition to film music and ballet productions - the CDs Weites Land und Leben , successful tours, etc. a. also to Paris and America. Toni Stricker set up a new home in Rayol-Canadel-sur-Mer on the Cote d'Azur and has been spending a few relaxing weeks there since then. After a 1997 concert tour in Italy, the CDs "Horizonte", "As time goes by" and "Charisma" were created. The following year, Stricker gave several concerts in London. He composed the CD Dialog. Toni Stricker and Edita Gruberová , which was then recorded together with the Slovak Philharmonic in Bratislava and presented live at a gala at the Haydn Festival in Eisenstadt .

After concerts in Bratislava, Vienna, Bayreuth, France and Abu Dhabi, the concert series in Donnerskirchen and a gala concert with Edita Gruberová in Finkenstein, there was another excursion into film music. Stricker composed the music for Maximilian Schell 's film My Sister Maria and then for the television film "Duett" with Agnes Baltsa and Otto Schenk .

Between 2003 and 2006 Toni Stricker played with a septet on a concert tour: "Pannonia & Jazz", the TV portraits "Across all borders" and Lebenslinien are shot with him in southern France, he performed at Christmas in Vienna in the Vienna Konzerthaus , in Vienna's St. Stephen's Cathedral and in the Prague Art Nouveau jewel, the Smetana Hall. Publication of the CD "Perspektive". In 2007 he released the CD Toni Stricker. Impressions and after an extensive concert tour began composing the "Pannonian Mass", which was premiered in December 2008 in the Radiokulturhaus in Vienna and recorded by ORF and published on CD. For a long time he had wanted to write a kind of "people's fair" as he had given it to the Eisenstadt diocesan bishop Dr. Stefan Laszlo promised. The concert year 2010 was crowned with a big birthday gala in the Wiener Konzerthaus .

In May 2015 he said goodbye to the stage.

Awards

Further:

  • Rings of honor of the municipalities of Bad Sauerbrunn and Donnerskirchen
  • Toni Stricker Pavilion in the spa gardens of Bad Sauerbrunn
  • Honorary citizen of Bad Sauerbrunn

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Pannonian Mass - World premiere by Toni Stricker in the Radiokulturhaus, accessed on April 3, 2010
  2. orf.at - Toni Stricker: Farewell to the stage . Article dated May 9, 2015, accessed July 26, 2015.
  3. Awards for music sales: AT

Web links

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