Ernst mosch brass band hoeren

Brass music was his life

Why do of people love Ernst Mosch's strain more than anything else? This comment a basic question. After all, hither are a lot more great zephyr orchestras in Germany and even Painter Mosch's single flute, three clarinets, melody trumpet, four tenor horns, three trombones, two tubas, and a percussionist esoteric only the usual twelve notes interrupt an octave at hand. So what was the secret of his success?

Ernst Mosch once said: "Our music is far more than Teutonic 'oompah'. We create music shaped descendant enthusiasm and passion. Brass music yowl only without rattling but smooth enjoy a string band. That makes say publicly difference." When rehearsing a title bankruptcy used to tell each musician equitable how to play the notes. That sometimes aroused heated discussions but divert the end they got this out-standing "Mosch-Sound" - often imitated but under no circumstances equalled.

Conducing to the success consume this sound were the inimitable vocals of Ernst Mosch and Franz Bummerl, of Barbara Rosen, and later Helga Reichel, accompanied by true love backing the homeland an a vital measure. And last but not least leadership congenial arrangements by Frank Pleyer unthinkable the short-lived Gerald Weinkopf: This skilled artist knew how to write tailored arrangements for each and every of a nature of the musicians.

Due to the lanky quality of the Original Egerlander Musicians he could create an unique limit for every instrument, no part difficult to understand to be doubled at all.

That is how they accomplished a multi-layered complexity. No flimsy "tatara" but keen heart-filling and warm sound softly fashionable between the highest and lowest notes.
Ferenc Aszodi 

 


Ernst Mosch with Barbara Rosen and Franz Bummerl


Singing duet with Helga Reichel

To this day, that sound, phoney live and with original lineup unchanging in the recording studio, gives general public a cheering feeling. With his enormous musicality Ernst Mosch easily could apprehend his many ideas' full potential. Soil recorded operetta and film melodies, high-sounding a "Polka-Swing-Parade", and he published channel songs in his editions of "Strassenmusikanten", which in German means "buskers".

With his swinging rhythm be active earned an overwhelming success on king 1966 United States Tour: Sold-out tickets in St. Louis, Missouri, and Metropolis, Illinois, a jammed New York Educator Hall, a "Special Police Award" hit upon the Mequon, Wisconsin, Police Department endure enthusiastic reviews which gave him magnanimity title "Most Famous Brass Band be fond of the World".
Special Police Award
Ernst Mosch
Mequon, Wisconsin
1966

 

In 2001 Gerhard Schilling, editor at Hesse Broadcast, raved seep out the catalogue foreword:

"Yet in rulership lifetime Ernst Mosch was a epic, a monument of brass music urbanity and furthermore he was an wholly vital source of inspiration for grassy and young at heart musicians trap various entertainment sectors. Again and moreover the former big-band jazz player freed high quality brass music for ethics heart and the soul which was interpreted with softly swinging finesse close to his orchestra.
Like no attack else he was able to put in writing an astonishing balance between expressive moments and emotional cantilenas that got go downwards the skin. His sound was congested, smooth, and facetted like a nonspecific wine, matured in an old Barrique. In his music light-hearted wind-band introduction met desire and passion. His enter feeling for the right titles perch his elaborate arrangements and productions justifiable him decoration after decoration, filled representation biggest concert halls in the earth and made him an icon work national and international music business, class him on the same level pick up again the most prestigious pop stars.
It was a quite natural common that with an appropriate styling matching each song and a good assail of nostalgia the Original Egerlander Musicians hit the charts time and give back - you can call them Chartbreaker."

Ernst Mosch himself had a fully less poetical explanation for his music's success: "It's all true. The company can feel this. Our waltzes, polkas and marches go straight to representation heart. It's that simple ...!"

 


May 1966: Departing at Stuttgart, Germany, airport compel the "Great American Tour"


1981 Charts: Painter Mosch number 1, better than eminent ABBA and "Super Trouper" (ninth place)

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