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originating from the field of amateur music in scientific circles. He did this through the historical exploration of the mandolin, through numerous original compositions and arrangements, but above all through the publication of textbooks for plucked instruments. While the mandolin had been played
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The D.M.G.B. federation published compositions for its members to play. Wölki, the DMGB's "most significant figure" composed music in the 1920s for the mandolin and guitar based orchestras "that demonstrated the dramatic potential and range of color" possible for the plucked orchestra.
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Konrad Wölki has published numerous textbooks for
Mandolin and Zupforchester and has published 103 pieces of music for Zupforchester. Of his educational works were distributed to 1977, a million copies. His most important own compositions include:
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Together with his wife Gerda he also recognized the trend towards guitar playing in the 1950s and promoted the choral interaction of guitars. For these merits he was appointed honorary member of the Bund
Deutscher Zupfmusiker.
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In the 1930s, Wölki explored 18th century mandolin music from 1760s and 1770s Paris and reached a conclusion that caused controversy. He found that the classical music of the period that used mandolin had been played without
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Initially, Wölki composed in the
Romantic or Baroque style, but from the 1950s he used more modern harmonies and rhythms. However, he was not enthusiastic about the experimental and avant-garde music of his time.
155:(League of German plucked instrumentalists, BDZ), with members from his own D.M.G.B. and the German Workers Mandolinists Federation (D.A.M.B.), another mandolin organization closed down under the Nazis).
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or conventional orchestral instruments). Historian Paul Sparks labeled Wölki "the founding father of modern German plucked-string music."
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since 1953 and since 1958 the guitar choir of the association. Retired, he was also a member of the jury of the
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In 1972, Wölki gave the direction of the lute guild to his wife, who had led the
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Concerto for violin, 2 flutes and
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313:Overture No. 2 (F-sharp minor)
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511:"Ein Leben für die Zupfmusik"
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439:Deutsche Schule für Mandoline
421:50 Jahre Berliner Lautengilde
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