Yehuda Oppenheimer CD The Magic Accordion of Yehuda Oppenheimer, Cat: OYCD001: and his compositions

eSheet Music composed/arranged by Yehuda Oppenheimer

Accordion CD

Catalog OYCD001

Catalog OYCD002

eSheet Music composed/arranged by Yehuda Oppenheimer

Original Compositions

OYcomp500 - Sailing
Sound Samples:
OYcomp500 - Sailing

OYcomp501 - Longing
Sound Samples:
OYcomp501 - Longing

OYcomp502 - Liberty
OYcomp503 - Ole
OYcomp504 - Oriental Dance

OYcomp505 - Prayer
Sound Samples:
OYcomp505 - Prayer

OYcomp506 - Rondo
OYcomp507 - Shalom Bambino
OYcomp508 - Mini Twist

OYcomp533 - Fuer Adina
Sound Samples:
OYcomp533 - Fuer Adina

OY566 - Young Love
Sound Samples:
OY566 - Young Love

OY567 - Perpetum Mobile
Sound Samples:
OY567 - Perpetum Mobile

OYcomp567 - Perpetum Mobile
OYcomp570 - Mini Valse
OYcomp571 - La Castagnetas

OY578 - Jaffa Nights
Sound Samples:
OY578 - Jaffa Nights

OY580 - Tango
Sound Samples:
OY580 - Tango

OY581 - Magic Accordion
Sound Samples:
OY581 - Magic Accordion

OY582 - Accordion Mon Amour
Sound Samples:
OY582 - Accordion Mon Amour

OY584 - Perpetum Mobile (Advanced Version)
OY586 - Busy Fingers

OY591 - E i l a t
Sound Samples:
OY591 - E i l a t

OY588 - Bingo
Sound Samples:
OY588 - Bingo

Folk Music

Sound Samples:
OY513 - Let My People Go
OY515 - Home On The Ran ge
OY516 - Greek Dance
OY518 - Dutch Song
OY519 - Czardas
OY520 - Goodnight Ireen
OY521 - Auld Lang Syne
OY522 - Krakowiac
OY526 - Troika
OY527 - Song Of Mirele
OY528 - Tiritomba
OY529 - Landler
OY530 - Irish Song
OY531 - American March
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
OY556 - Quiet Flows The River
OY557 - When The Rabbi
OY558 - Ireen
OY565 - Sarie Marais
OY577 - My Heart Wish
OY572 - Alexandvovu With Variations
OY575 - Jewish Partisan
OY576 - Korobushka
OY585 - Pillar Of Fire

Arrangements of Famous Classical Pieces
OY510 - Contredance - Mozart
OY511 - Serenade - Toselli
OY512 - Waltz - Tschaikowsky
OY514 - Serenade - Mozart
OY517 - Serenade - Heykens
OY524 - The Wild Horseman
OY525 - Old Dance - Dittersdorf
OY535 - Soldiers March - Schumann
OY539 - Tambourin
OY540 - Hungarian Dance No.4 - Brahms
OY542 - Turkish March - Beethoven
OY553 - Maoz Turz - Traditional
OY555 - Aria - Bach
OY554 - Te Deum
OY568 - Magic Flute - Mozart
OY569 - Eroica - Beethoven
OY573 - Rondeau
OY574 - Sonate In C-Dur - Mozart
OY587 - Gavotte and Rondo
OY590 - Symphony No. 40
OY592 - A l l e g r o
Sound Samples:
OY592 - A l l e g r o

Duets
OY562 - Dolores
OY564 - Mazurka
OY593 - Bingo Accordion Duet

Biography:

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:
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