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Brass Ensemble Euphonium, French Horn, Trombone, Trumpet, Tuba - Level 3 - Digital Download
SKU: A0.1533634
By Various. By Wilhelm Wiesberg. Arranged by Kevin P Holdgate. This edition: pdf. 20th Century, Film/TV, Historic, Standards, Traditional. 16 pages. Kevin P Holdgate #1106772. Published by Kevin P Holdgate (A0.1533634).Known as the Unofficial anthem of Munich this song is a staple of the famous Munich beer festival.
I produced this arrangement for my Bierkeller band ''The Lagermeisters' with additional parts for Horn in Eb, Trombone and Euphonium in Treble Clef and Eb Bass...
Background to the song
The melody was composed by the Viennese folk singer Wilhelm Wiesberg to the text “The sky full of stars”. Carl Lorens , another Viennese folk singer, wrote the text “As long as the old Steffel still stands on Stephansplatz” to the melody. Lorens’ text referred to the cathedral church of St. Stephen in Vienna . The song sung today differs significantly from Lorens' Viennese singing style: of 40 bars, only 24 correspond to the original; the origin of the "Munich" melody version is unclear. The Munich folk singerMichl Huber adapted the text of the Viennese song to suit Munich conditions around 1880, replacing the Viennese "Steffel" with the Munich "Alten Peter".
On January 13, 1948, the first bars of the song became the break signal of the Bavarian Radio , with the note for the last syllable "-ter" missing to refer to the church of the same name, St. Peter, which had been destroyed in the war . After the church was rebuilt, the people of Munich gathered on Marienplatz on October 28, 1951 and sang the song together. Since that day, the Bavarian Radio has played its break signal in full, including the note for the last syllable.
Since 1971, a version of this pause signal has also been the jingle for the traffic announcements on Bayern 3 .
The tone sequence of the first line of the song is taken up again in the chorus of the Hofbräuhaus song composed by Wilhelm “Wiga” Gabriel in 1935 .
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