Skip to content
Siete qui: Home Festival Artisti Salonschleicher
Salonschleicher PDF Print E-mail

The Salonschleicher ensemble was founded in 1991. Born in Würzburg, this group has developed amongst members of the University’s Academic Orchestra, made up of students of all faculties.
The ensemble, made up of a smaller number of musicians, has concentrated on dance repertoire and, more in general, on an entertaining musical genre, made up essentially of compositions written in the Twenties and in the Thirties, when varieté theatres and dance rooms were extremely popular in Germany.
The Salonschleicher ensemble has carried out, since the beginning of its career, an important number of concerts both in Germany and in Italy.
In 2004 most of the musicians moved to Berlin, which became the group’s new city of residence. The Salonschleicher ensemble has recorded two CD’s: Unverbindliche Tanzempfehlung (1999) and Wer tanzt schon gern allein (2005).
«The Twenties in Berlin... the arrival of talking movies... In dance rooms and in Varietés, orchestras play to entertain people and to make them dance. Were them “roaring” years? Undoubtedly they have been extremely creative and lively. The Salonschleicher ensemble from Berlin has built up, throughout this programme, this same atmosphere, proposing the melodies that used to enchant Berlin, Germany, and probably all of Europe. As in tradition, this group is made up of four violins, flute, clarinet, trombone, piano and percussions”.