Over Christmas 🎄 Karl, my Father-in-law, showed me some sheet music of a couple of songs his grandfather (my wife Michelle’s great Grandfather) wrote. Since he never heard them, I recorded the songs for him.
One was just a melody and lyrics (in German). Because I didn’t dare to try to pronounce the lyrics, I recorded the melody as written on Piano. Listen 🎶
Then I added some harmony and recorded my piano 🎹 arrangement. Listen 🎶 to my arrangement I’ll have translate these lyrics to find out if my arrangement matches his composition. It could have been meant to be a polka for all I know.
Karl sent me this little bit of background about his Grandfather:
“Thank you Bill for sending the music of my grandfather, whom I never met. He died before I was born. He was quite well known in Cologne as a singer in a singer club, and also as a composer. He was a Modeleur in his profession, a scrollmaker like the fancy scrolls one sees on churches and fancy homes.”