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Fliege mit mir in die Heimat – Ko v jutranjem soncu (F. Winkler) [Sheet music]

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Fliege mit mir in die Heimat (German for “Fly home with me”), also known as Am Strande von Rio, was composed by Franz Winkler from Tyrol, Austria, and initially released in the 1940s. Over the years, this beloved song has been adapted into several languages, including: English: “Forever and Ever”, French: “Étoile des Neiges” and […]

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Razposajene Harmonike – Harmonikas, Los! (I. Brüggemann) [Sheet music] [Accompaniment track]

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“Razposajene Harmonike” (Slovenian for “Cheerful accordions”) or “Harmonikas, Los!” (German for “Accordions, let’s go!”) is a fast instrumental waltz for the accordion written by Ingrid (Inge) Huberti (née Campestrini, Brüggemann), an extraordinary vocalist, accordionist, lyricist, composer, and yodeler from Austria who has contributed immensely to the Oberkrainer style of Alpine folk music. Ingrid has written

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A Krainer is meiner (S. Binder) [Sheet music] [Tutorial video]

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A Krainer is meiner (German rhyming which implies “Oberkrainer music is my passion”) is a popular instrumental polka by Siegi Binder, accordionist from the Lechner Buam, a legendary Oberkrainer style folk music group from the Niederösterreich (Lower Austria) state of Austria. Siegi Binder is a fantastic and successful music teacher, composer, and stage musician who

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Dauerwellen Walzer (F. Pfister) [Sheet music]

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‘Dauerwellen Walzer’ is an instrumental waltz (dauerwellen literally means hair perms!) written by Freddy Pfister from Austria, released in 1987 by the hugely successful Austrian folk music group ‘Zillertaler Schürzenjäger‘ (Skirt chasers from Ziller Valley). It appeared on the same album which featured the Zillertaler Hochzeitsmarsch, an old folk melody which the group modernised into

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Stainzer Polka (E. Reinisch) [Sheet music]

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Stainzer Polka (Stainz is a municipality in Styria, so based on Grazer Spatzen being from Styria, it’s probably named after that) is an instrumental from the 1990s by Erich Reinisch, the trumpet player from one of Austria’s most popular and influential (while specialising in Oberkrainer style) Alpine folk music bands from Austria, Grazer Spatzen (Sparrows

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Harmonika Hans’l (Austrian folk song) [Sheet music]

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“Harmonika Hans’l” is a traditional Austrian waltz (from the context of existing recordings I’m assuming it’s from Austria) of unknown origin and has been recorded several times by different Austrian folk music groups, primarily traditional folk music rather than the Oberkrainer style, and on the Steirische Harmonika (Styrian or Alpine button accordion), however it was

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