All that Schubert, Schrammel, Strauss and Schoenberg!
Growing up only a stone´s throw away from Franz Schubert´s birthplace, I was naturally suffused by the spirit of Viennese music at its best. After growing older and spending evenings at what is probably one of Vienna’s most charming districts, Nussdorf, I was equally suffused by the spirits of Viennese wines. Beethoven obviously appreciated such liquids as well, as he too lived there for quite some time. Furthermore, the Schrammel-Brothers put together what was called the Schrammel-Quartet, a smaller and more intimate version of All That Strauss Big Band. Some years later, Arnold Schoenberg stumbled upon the idea that the twelve tones from the western musical system start to sound much more exotic, when you free them from the methods of tonal organisation that had been used up until then. And so modern music was born! As a natural born Viennese I couldn’t resist trying to add a modest bit to the great tradition of Viennese music.