Eric Baumann (musicologist)
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Eric Baumann is a German musicologist. He is an authority on the work of Karl May
. He is better known popularly for his humorous book Der Komponist Ferdinand Loh (The Composer Ferdinand Loh), which is about the anonymous children's piece Der Flohwalzer
.
Karl May
Karl Friedrich May was a popular German writer, noted mainly for adventure novels set in the American Old West, and similar books set in the Orient and Middle East . In addition, he wrote stories set in his native Germany, in China and in South America...
. He is better known popularly for his humorous book Der Komponist Ferdinand Loh (The Composer Ferdinand Loh), which is about the anonymous children's piece Der Flohwalzer
Der Flohwalzer
The Flea Waltz is a simple piano piece, often one of the first learned:It is known all over the world. According to an article by Hiromi Oketani in the Osaka Shoin Women's College Annual for 1994, it is known in Japan as...
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Works
- Kleine Frühlingsmusik: für Flöte u. Klavier, Bärenreiter-Verl., 1988
- Der Komponist Ferdinand Loh und sein opus magnum, Der Flohwalzer, Atlantis, 1996, ISBN 9783254002051
- Ein Ave Maria im Wilden Westen: Karl May als Komponist, Atlantis Musikbuch-Verlag, 2002, ISBN 9783254083838
- Wie kam die Glace auf das Stängeli?: 150 Fragen aus der weiten Welt der Wirtschaft, Eric Baumann, Stefan Eiselin Cosmos-Verl., 2009, ISBN 9783305003761