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 * [[image:https://secure.reservexl.net/wwwimg/img/tours/7788-4.jpg align="right" caption="traditional instruments in germany"]]Types of music in Germany**

There are a lot of different kinds of music in Germany. A big kind of music in Germany is heavy metal. Germany has a strong and long history of heavy metal music. It's considered, by many, to be one of Europe's heaviest contributors to the scene. There's also some pretty popular bands of heavy metal in Germany such as Scorpions, Accept, Helloween, Blind Guardian and Rage. Another big kind of music is pop. It was often heard by West Germany and East Germany. Pop music had more variety and the German's still listen to it today. Pop is such a huge kind of music in Germany that they have an underground school for kids to sing pop music and listen to it. The school is called Hamburger Schule. It started in the 1980's and was still active around the 1990's. Also, their pop music was influenced, after World War ||, by music from USA and Great Britain. Other types of music in Germany are rap/hip hop, modern, folk, goth, jazz, Latin pop, Oom-pah (a kind of music played by the brass bands), and //Neue Deutsche Harte// (New German Hardness).


 * Famous artists in Germany/ solo artists**

Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, Handel, Brahms, and Mahler are all ethnically German and some of the most famous musicians in Germany. They're all very popular artists and they always will be. Beethoven was born in Bonn on December 1770. No one is really 100% on whether his birthday is on the 16th or 17th of Decumber. His friends and family celebrate it on the 17th though. Beethoven started getting money in 1789. Which was mostly half of his fathers salary. The rest of his money was from being a violist in the court orchestra. He moved to Vienna in 1792 but didn't go out and try to be a composer right away. He wanted to work more on his piano playing and studies. Mozart was one of the most highly apprieciated musicians ever happened to live in the history. Mozart was born on January 27, 1756 in Salzburg, Austria. He full name is Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Gottlieb Mozart in honor of his grandfather. When he was just 5 years old mozart started composing really beautiful and exciting songs. Johann Sebastian Bach was born on March 21st, l685. Bach's family was really thankful that their name was known through millions of people for musical talent. Bach learned how to play the violin and the harpsichord, his father taught him. When he was eight years old he went to this really old Latin Grammar School, where Martin Luther used to go, he learned reading and writing, Latin grammar, and a lot of scripture, both in Latin and German. Georg Friederich Händel was born in Halle, Germany on February 23rd, 1685 and died in London on April 14th, 1759. When he was 17 he was an appointed organist of the Calvinist Cathedral, but a year later he left for Hamburg. In Hamburg, he played the violin and harpsichord in the opera house and thats where his //Almira// was given to him at the beginning of 1705. Later next year, he accepted an invitation to Italy, where he spent more than three years in Florence, Rome, Naples and Venice. Händel had operas and other work given to him in all of these cities. Johannes Brahms was born on May 7th, 1833 and died on April 3rd, 1897. Brahms was a German composer and he was popular for his classical music. He was considered the 'successor' to Beethoven, and his first symphony was described by Hans von Bülow as Beethoven's tenth symphony' (the nickname is still used). Gustav Mahler was born on July 7th, 1860 and died on May 18th, 1911. Mahler was mostly known for leading the Austrian conductors back in his day. But now people remember him as an important composer that connected the late 19th century with modern music. Mahler was coming down with huge virulent anti-semitic attacks, in 1907 the attacks were becoming a bit too much, when Mahler received an offer to conduct Metropolitan Opera in New York. He conducted a season there in 1908, but he only did it to be in favor of Arturo Toscanini. Mahler came back to New York the next year to become the conductor of a new type of New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Kind of near that time, he completed //Das Lied von der Erde//, and the Symphony No. 9, and it actually turned out to be his last completed work. During his last visit to America in February 1911, he started being seriously ill and was taken back to Vienna because he wanted to.



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different types of music in Germany: -rock -heavy metal -rap/hip hop -modern -folk -goth -jazz -latin pop -oom-pah (a kind of music played by the brass bands) -//Neue Deutsche Harte// (New German Hardness)

popular solo artists: -Udo Lindenberg -Herbert Gronemeyer -Marius Muller-Westernhagen -Peter Maffay

the best classical musicians: -Beethoven -Mozart -Bach -Handel -Brahms -Mahler they all were ethnically German.

Hamburger Schule: -an underground school music-movement that started in the late 1980's -still actives around the 1990's -it has similar traditions; Neue Deutshe Welle, and mixed all that with punk, grunge, and pop music -Schule has been important to Germany's youth and gave "Pop" a new definition. then it was ok (or "cool") to sing in the German Language

Many of the best classical musicians such as Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, Handel, Brahms or Mahler were ethnically German.

Germany has many unique regions with their own folk traditions of music and dance.

After World War II, German pop music was much influenced by music from USA and Great Britain.

Pop music from West Germany was often heard in East Germany, had more variety and is still present today, while East German music had only little influence.

Genuine German rock first appeared around 1968, just as the hippie countercultural explosion was peaking in the US and UK.

Germany has a long and strong history with heavy metal. It considered, by many to be one of Europe's heaviest contributors to the scene.

Heavy metal bands from Germany include Scorpions, Accept, Helloween, Blind Guardian and Rage.

Immigration was a big issue in Germany and prompted hip-hop artists, who were children of immigrants, to use rap and hip hop as a way to defend themselves in their country.

In both East and West Germany, folk songs called //[|volkslieder]// were taught to children; these were popular, sunny and optimistic, and had little relation to authentic German folk traditions.

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In the 1920s, musical developments in the United States began to influence modern German music, and later in the century, German musicians also began to take notice of developments in Great Britain.

Several German artists are now making a name internationally in a variety of genres.

The new term //Deutschrock// and up-and-coming bands like Glashaus, Juli, and Silbermond are evidence of the expanding place of German in the contemporary music scene.