Mannheim

The band's name came from Mannheim, Germany where Mozart lived. Mannheim Steamroller is the name for an 18th century musical technique known as the crescendo. Fact 4. Chip formed the American Gramaphone record label in 1974 when no label would take on his music.

Mannheim school, in music, a group of 18th-century composers who assembled themselves in the city of Mannheim, Ger., under the patronage of Duke Karl Theodor (reigned 1743–99), the elector palatine.

Mannheim Sigh, a Mannheim School musical innovation putting more weight on the first of two notes in descending pairs of slurred notes. Pianto, the motif of a descending minor second, represented laments and associated textually with weeping, sighing, or pain, grief, etc.

Especially impressive to these travelers was the outstanding orchestra (Burney termed it an “army of generals”), which was famous throughout Europe for its highly disciplined virtuosity and its ability to produce certain novel and arousing effects.

If you want to say “music” in German, you would simply say “musik.” Because German and English are so closely related, much of the vocabulary is almost identical.

He became friendly with the Mannheim musicians, undertook some teaching and playing, accepted and partly fulfilled a commission for flute music from a German surgeon, and fell in love with Aloysia Weber, a soprano, the second of four daughters of a music copyist.

Electronic music and techno Germany has the largest electronic music scene in the world and has a long tradition in and influence on almost all genres of electronic music.

The Mannheim crescendo is another technique, when the whole orchestra shifts from pianissimo to fortissimo in short period of time. If the Mannheim crescendo is accompanied with tremolo effects in string instruments, it is called Mannheim roller.

The first automobile, tractor and bicycle (draisine or velocipede, as the earliest recognisable bicycles were called) were all made or presented for the first time in Mannheim. This is why the city is also called the "city of inventions".

International reach. In recognition of these many activities to promote music, Mannheim was awarded the title “UNESCO City of Music”, making it one of a worldwide network of particularly creative cities.

Mozart visited Mannheim four times. The first visit was brief: on 18 July 1763, en route to Paris, the Mozart children played for the court at Schwetzingen. Considerably more extended was Mozart's stay in 1777 and 1778.

Mozart spent the winter of 1777–78 in Mannheim, and his 'Haffner' Symphony contains many influences from his time there. Haydn too embraced a number of the Mannheim School techniques, taking his much-loved 'Drum Roll' Symphony to new heights of energy and excitement.