And Fossen biography

Albert Vossen. Variety Compositions for Accordion Solo. Volume 1 1. Etwas Leichtsinn. Transcribed by V. Tanzenden Noten. Am montparnasse. FLIEGENDE BLATER. SPRITZIG UND SUSS. Lange Leitung. So Sind Wir! Volume 2 1. Rhythmische Harmonika. Im Voruebergehen. Springende Punkte. Heiteres Spiel. Bruesseller Spitzen. From the age of 15, Fossen began to study at the Cologne Music Institute in order to become a concert pianist.

But in the year, he radically changed his intentions, starting to perform dance music as an accordionist, and with great success. However, the calculation did not materialize, since Fossen did not want this struggle. In addition, the developing film industry turned her interest in the personality of the musician. He was invited by various studios: they offered to write music for films, participate in the frame and behind the scenes - as an actor and as a musician, to create musical accompaniment for paintings.

What was the difference between the sound of Albert Fossen and his orchestra? His game was really what was mentioned on the labels of gramples. Jazz, or, more precisely, swing is the most sophisticated and sophisticated, and this is long before the Second World War! Excessively executed solo, spontaneous shifts of rhythm - all this was not used by other accordion orchestras or was very rarely used.

At that time, a number of orchestras with a solo accordion at the head at the end were competed on the stage. All these artists composed music, recorded records and often performed each other's works.

In a short time, this institution became a favorite place of meetings of those figures whose success was greatly facilitated by radio and television programs. Albert Fossen passed away on August 10. Until the last days of his life, he was associated with the Podnogerman radio. His work went down in the history of the stage of pop execution on the accordion, many of his compositions to this day delight lovers of the accordion and pop genre, his virtuoso techniques remain unsurpassed to date.

In the Soviet Union, the work of Albert Fossen was not widely known due to a number of circumstances, including for ideological reasons. However, one cannot fail to mention at least two facts saying that after all his music came to our listener and gained unprecedented popularity among domestic lovers of the accordion. At the end of the Great Patriotic War with the soldiers returning from the fronts, many different trophies fell into the territory of the Soviet Union.

Among them there were a lot of accordions, grams and notes for this tool. There were also a lot of captured films that were shown at a wide box office. The purpose of this collection is to introduce a wide range of fans of the pop direction in the performance on the accordion with the work of Albert Fossen, the great master of this genre. The works published in the collection will help to develop one of the most important elements of pop music from performers - a sense of swing.

Compiled by V.