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Music composed/arranged by Yehuda Oppenheimer




Catalog: eT-OYCD001

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  Name (Click for Sound Sample) Time Buy/Price
1. Eilat by Yehuda Oppenheimer 3:16 € 0.80
2. Für Adina by Yehuda Oppenheimer 2:53 € 0.80
3. Jaffa Nights by Yehuda Oppenheimer 2:36 € 0.80
4. Valse Golan by Yehuda Oppenheimer 2:02 € 0.80
5. Bingo by Yehuda Oppenheimer 2:10 € 0.80
6. The Magic Accordion by Yehuda Oppenheimer 2:28 € 0.80
7. Immages of Israel by Yehuda Oppenheimer 6:02 € 1.15
8. Chaccone by Yehuda Oppenheimer 6:16 € 1.15
9. Prelude In C minor by Chopin, arr. Oppenheimer 1:37 € 0.80
10. Allegro by Fiocco, arr. Oppenheimer 3:37 € 0.80
11. Air (from Suite No.3) by J.S. Bach, arr. Oppenheimer 3:19 € 0.80
12. Concertino by Cimarosa, Benjamin, arr. Oppenheimer 14:06 € 1.45
13. Staccato for Flute by Civelli, arr. Oppenheimer 2:09 € 0.80
14. Choral by J.S. Bach, arr. Oppenheimer 1:27 € 0.80
15. Pillar of Fire by Shem-Tov Levi, arr. Oppenheimer 1:57 € 0.80
16. Rhapsody Israelienne for Acc.an Symphony Orchestra by Marc Lavry 10:18 € 1.45
       


Catalog: eT-OYCD002

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  Name (Click for Sound Sample) Time Buy/Price
1. Prayer by Yehuda Oppenheimer 1:30 € 0.80
2. Longing by Yehuda Oppenheimer 4:02 € 0.80
3. Souvenir D'Amour by Yehuda Oppenheimer 4:02 € 0.80
4. Tango by Yehuda Oppenheimer 3:59 € 0.80
5. Young Love by Yehuda Oppenheimer 2:39 € 0.80
6. Perpetum Mobile by Yehuda Oppenheimer 2:06 € 0.80
7. Sailing by Yehuda Oppenheimer 3:09 € 0.80
8. Accordion Mon Amour by Yehuda Oppenheimer 2:19 € 0.80
9. Rush Hour by Yehuda Oppenheimer 2:17 € 0.80
10. Picnic by Yehuda Oppenheimer 2:23 € 0.80
11. Ommagio A Bach by Yehuda Oppenheimer 3:35 € 0.80
       

CDs by Yehuda Oppenheimer


 

Catalog OYCD001
The Magic Accordion Of Yehuda Oppenheimer
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Catalog OYCD002
Accordion Mon Amour
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eSheet Music composed/arranged by Yehuda Oppenheimer



Original Compositions


OYcomp500 - Sailing     Sound Sample: OYcomp500 Sailing
OYcomp501 - Longing    Sound Sample:OYcomp501 Longing
OYcomp502 - Liberty
OYcomp503 - Ole
OYcomp504 - Oriental Dance
OYcomp505 - Prayer    Sound Sample: OYcomp505 - Prayer
OYcomp506 - Rondo
OYcomp507 - Shalom Bambino
OYcomp508 - Mini Twist
OY523 - Debka (Oriental Dance
OYcomp533 - Fuer Adina    Sound Sample: OYcomp533 - Fuer Adina
OY566 - Young Love     Sound Sample:OY566 - Young Love
OY567 - Perpetum Mobile (Medium Version)    Sound Sample: OY567 - Perpetum Mobile
OYcomp570 - Mini Valse
OYcomp571 - La Castagnetas
OY578 Jaffa Nights    Sound Sample:OY578 - Jaffa Nights
OY579 - Souvenir d'amour (Valse Romantique) Sound Sample OY579: Souvenir d'amour
OY580 - Tango    Sound Sample:OY580 - Tango
OY581 - Magic Accordion    Sound Sample: OY581 - Magic Accordion
OY582 - Accordion Mon Amour    Sound SampleOY582 - Accordion Mon Amour
OY584 - Perpetum Mobile (Advanced Version)
OY586 - Busy Fingers
OY588 - Bingo    Sound Sample:OY588 - Bingo
OY591 - E i l a t  Valse Brillante   Sound Sample: OY591 - E i l a t
OY593 - Bingo (Polka) Accordion Duet
OY595 - Picnic (Novelty)
OY597 - Mini Valse (duet)
OY609 - Ciaccona Variazioni per fisarmonica sul tema popolare portoghese "La Folia"
OY611 - Israeli Polka
OY616 - Tibidabo
OY614 - Omaggio A Bach - Cheerio, Mr. Bach!
OY630 - Quadri D'israele 1 - Caravan To The Dead Sea
OY631 - Golan (Valse)

Arrangements of Famous Classical Favourites


OY509 - Serenade - Tosselli
OY510 - Contredance - Mozart
OY511 - Serenade - Toselli
OY512 - Waltz from Swan Lake - Tschaikowsky
OY514 - Serenade - Mozart
OY517 - Serenade - Heykens
OY524 - The Wild Horseman - Robert Schuman
OY525 - Old Dance - Dittersdorf
OY535 - Soldiers March - Schumann
OY539 - Tambourin - Rameau
OY540 - Hungarian Dance No.4 - Brahms
OY542 - Turkish March - Beethoven
OY555 - Aria - Bach
OY554 - Te Deum - Charpentier
OY562c - Delores (duet) - Waldteufel
OY568 - Magic Flute - Mozart
OY569 - Eroica - Beethoven
OY573 - Rondeau - Purcell
OY574 -
Sonata No.16 in C major, K.545 - Mozart
OY587 - Gavotte and Rondo - J S Bach

OY589 - Badinerie from Suite No. 2 - J S Bach
OY590 - Symphony No. 40, 1st movement - W A Mozart
OY592 - A l l e g r o - Fiocco
OY594 - Ave Verum corpus - Mozart
OY598 - A I R (Suite No. 3) - J S Bach
OY599 - Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring - J S Bach
OY601 - Allegro Spirituoso - Senaille
OY603 - Toccata from "Gothic Suite" - Boellmann
OY605 - Oboe Concerto based upon four sonatas composed by Cimarosa.  
Sound Sample:OY605 - Oboe Concerto
OY606 - Flute Staccato Sound Sample OY606 - Flute Staccato
OY607 - Rosamunda - Franz Schubert
OY608 - Toy Symphony Haydn

Folk Music


OY513 - Let My People Go (Negro spiritual)
OY515 - Home On The Range
OY516 - Greek Dance
OY518 - Dutch Song
OY519 - Czardas
OY520 - Goodnight Ireen - medium level
OY521 - Auld Lang Syne
OY522 - Krakowiac
OY526 - Troika
OY527 - Song Of Mirele
OY528 - Tiritomba
OY529 - Landler
OY530 - Irish Song
OY531 - American March (John Brown's Body)
OY532 - Scandinavian Dance
OY534 - Swiss Dance
OY536 - Portuguese Dance
OY537 - Frailach
OY541 - French Song
OY543 - Jugoslavian Dance
OY544 - Rasba
OY545 - Ukrainian Song
OY546 - Shepherd's Song
OY547 - Alexandrova
OY553 - Maoz Turz - Traditional
OY556 - Quiet Flows The River
OY557 - When The Rabbi
OY558 - Ireen - Simple arrangement
OY559 - Tumbalalaika (4 part arrangement)
OY565 - Sarie Marais
OY577 - My Heart Wish
OY572 - Alexandvovu With Variations
OY575 - Jewish Partisan
OY576 - Korobushka
OY585 - Pillar Of Fire
OY596 - Mazurka (Traditional Polish)
OY604 - Silent Night (very popular Christmas carol)

Duets


OY562c - Dolores - Waldteufel Accordion Duet
OY564 - Mazurka - Accordion Duet Traditional Polish
OY593 - Bingo Accordion Duet - Y Oppenheimer
OY596 - Mazurka Duet (Polish) folk melody
OY597 - Mini Valse Duet - Y Oppenheimer
OY600 - Eilat (Valse Brillante) Accordion Duet - Y Oppenheimer
OY602 - Sailing Accordion (Duet) - Y Oppenheimer
OY632 - Golan Valse Accordion (Duet) - Y Oppenheimer

Obituary: Yehuda Oppenheimer (1925 - 2012)

by Rob Howard, published by accordions.com

On the February 18, 2012, Yehuda Oppenheimer passed away early in the morning at the I.C.C.U Shaare Zedek Medical Center, a hospital in Jerusalem. He had severe heart failure and fatal complications. His funeral, in keeping with Jewish tradition, took place at Tivon cemetery on Tuesday.

Yeshiva Oppenheimer (born April 27, 1925) was brought up in Germany, but in 1937 his family moved to the Netherlands hoping to avoid anti-semitic persecution. When the Germans invaded in 1940, the Oppenheimer's managed to survive the war years by hiding in the attic of a friendly Christian family in Amsterdam – drawing parallels with the story of Anne Frank, though with a much happier outcome. At the age of 6, Yehuda took up the accordion, and attained a high standard despite never having any lessons.

After the war, Yehuda went to Israel, where he began a remarkable career in music. He studied the violin at the Conservatory in Jerusalem, and then found out that he could earn a living playing the accordion at convalescence homes and hotels. In the 1948 War of Independence, 23 year old Yehuda was in the army entertaining his fellow troops.

After leaving the army he established himself as a teacher of the accordion and has, over the years, taught many students from all over Israel, some of whom have won prizes internationally.

In the late 1950s Yehuda founded an accordion orchestra with which he worked for thirty years. His first solo accordion CD was recorded in 1998, 'The Magic Accordion of Yehuda Oppenheimer', which is half in the light-music style and half master arrangements of classical music, and an original piece for orchestra and accordion, 'Rhapsody Israelienne', written for him by one of the foremost Israeli composers, March Lavry, and performed this with the NDR Symphony Orchestra of Hamburg.

His second CD, 'Two Friends', contains the compositions of Jozef Pritsch, who was an accordion teacher, with other pieces composed by Yehuda. Lately, he produced, as a present for his 80th birthday (in April, 2005) another CD with his latest works, all typical accordion pieces, 'Accordion Mon Amour'. Two of these CDs are available at Yehuda Oppenheimer.

In Israel, Yehuda Oppenheimer is often referred to as the 'Prophet of the Accordion'. His book, a unique and monumental hardback, 'The Man, the Accordion, and the Legend' (Catalog No: oybook), was published late in 2011, containing 30 compositions and 30 classical transcriptions plus a biography.

Yehuda Oppenheimer devoted a life-time to the accordion and its development in Israel and it was so fitting that he should be awarded a Lifetime Achievement award only a few days before he died.

Available online at Yehuda Oppenheimer are two CD's, sound samples, 23 original compositions, 63 arrangements of folk music and famous classics and 5 duets.

Messages of condolence can be sent to: adinaya@netvision.net.il


Biography online at the time of passing: (1925-2012)

Yehuda Oppenheimer was born in Frankfurt am Main in April, 1925. As a child of three he tried to play on the piano all the tunes that he had heard in his kindergarten. When he was six he terrorized his parents to buy him an accordion. From that moment, he succeeded in playing the instrument and made great progress, despite the fact that he never had one accordion lesson in his life.

In Israel Yehuda, now 20, studied the violin at the Conservatoire in Jerusalem. He then found out that he could earn a living by playing the accordion at convalescence homes and hotels. He toured the country doing this and would sometimes earn money busking, describing himself as a poor artist-student. In the 1948 War of Independence, 23 year old Yehuda was in the army entertaining his fellow troops.

After leaving the army he established himself as a teacher of the accordion and has, over the years, taught many students from all over Israel, some of whom won first prizes at the international competitions.

In the late fifties he founded an accordion orchestra with which he worked for thirty years. In the menatime he recorded his first accordion album in 1998 'The magic Accordion of Yehuda Oppenheimer', which is half in the light-music style and half master arrangements of Classical music and an original piece for orchestra and accordion Rhapsody Israelienne, written for him by one of the foremost Israeli composers, March Lavry,Yehuda performs this with the NDR Symphony Orchestra of Hamburg. The second CD, is called 'Two Friends', contains compositions of Jozef Pritsch, who was an accordion teacher and half pieces by Yehuda. Lately he produced, as a present for his 80th birthday (in April, 2005) another CD with his ltest works, all typical accordion pieces 'Accordion Mon Amour'.

Contact:


adinaya@netvision.net.il



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