Andermatt Music: Hanneli Musig

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Hanneli Musig, a colorful compilation of well-known greats from the Swiss folk music scene, brings the dance music of our great-grandparents to life: Lively, cheerful and fresh. Hanneli Musig Dani Häusler, clarinet & saxophone Fränggi Gehrig, accordion Ueli Mooser, various instruments Peter Gisler, double bass & Schwyzerörgeli Fabian Müller, cello & viola Johannes Schmid-Kunz, violin, recorder & double bass About the program: Until the 1990s, Swiss folk music was primarily associated with Ländler music, which often originated in central Switzerland or Graubünden and was essentially the popular light music of the 1920s and 1930s. Thanks to the radio, Ländler music became widespread, gained popularity and became the defining factor in folk music. But Swiss folk music also existed before that, which was very diverse but largely forgotten for a long time and was only rediscovered thanks to a special collection by Hanny Christen. Born in Liestal in 1899, she was interested in the folk music of the late 18th and 19th centuries, traveled through Switzerland, visited old musicians, researched forgotten songbooks and collected over 12,000 melodies from almost all rural regions of the country. The largest collection of instrumental folk music in Switzerland is her life's work. The fact that the collection was stored untouched in boxes in the Basel University Library for decades is probably also due to Hanny Christen's outmoded and sometimes crude ideas: She saw herself as a preserver of old traditions that were not allowed to be changed or developed. In her view, only the original was authentic and perfect in its imperfection. Her strange ideas of the "right" folk music, free from musical innovations and foreign influences, stood in her way. Nevertheless, the publication of the folk music pieces collected by Hanny Christen in 2002 is one of the milestones in the history of Swiss folk music: Leafing through the collection is like an almost endless music-historical treasure hunt. The eminence grise of the local folk music scene and former folk music editor of Swiss Radio DRS, Ueli Mooser and his wife Chatrina, wanted to prevent this great work from being done solely for the sake of its existence as a museum in the libraries and, together with music lovers, founded the Hanneli-Musig, a formation dedicated exclusively to Hanny Christen's work. The concert features popular hits from the folk music collection of Musig Hanneli, as she called herself. And to avoid a marathon performance of the 12,000 or so melodies, the audience can request one or two pieces from volumes VIII and IX with dances from Uri. Note: This text was translated by machine translation software and not by a human translator. It may contain translation errors.