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Browse piano sheets by A. Malando on Zen Virtual Piano. Arie Maasland, who used the pseudonym Malando, was a musician and composer who lived from May 26, 1908, to November 22, 1980. From the age of six he had six years of piano lessons from the Rotterdam music teacher and choir conductor Jan Kriek, and as a secondary-school pupil he already formed a small band. A band formed while still at school suggests that leading others was part of his music from his school years. After school he began studying to be a building draughtsman but quit early to try his luck in music. From 1933 to 1939 he belonged to the Rotterdam sextet The Jumping Jacks as accordionist and percussionist, and also wrote the arrangements and handled the business side. During the Second World War he escaped, with two other band members, from a transport to the Amersfoort camp, after refusing a call-up for forced labor in Germany. A building-draughtsman course set aside for music, and an orchestra led under a VARA contract, may point to a turn from technical studies toward leading a band. Combining accordion, percussion, arranging and business in one sextet suggests a many-sided musician. Maasland wrote the tango Olé Guapa, his opus 4, in 1937, and in 1938 it was first released by Corny Ostermann. At first he struggled to get it published and had to carry part of the risk himself, but once it appeared, Olé Guapa quickly became a worldwide success. A tango written in 1937, in the middle of his years with The Jumping Jacks, may suggest that composing ran alongside his work in the sextet. A contract with the VARA in 1946 increased the fame of the orchestra he led, and its time of triumph lay between 1947 and 1960. He won the Oscar Mondiale as best accordionist in Pavia in 1959, the Edison Prize in 1964, the Golden Harp of the Conamus foundation two years later, and a royal honor in 1973. On May 23, 1979, he took his final leave of public performance with a VARA television show. A final leave taken on a VARA show, the broadcaster of his 1946 contract, may suggest a long working tie between him and the VARA. An award given in Pavia, Italy, may suggest that his skill as an accordionist drew notice far from the Rotterdam of his youth.
Browse piano sheets by A. Malando on Zen Virtual Piano.
Arie Maasland, who used the pseudonym Malando, was a musician and composer who lived from May 26, 1908, to November 22, 1980. From the age of six he had six years of piano lessons from the Rotterdam music teacher and choir conductor Jan Kriek, and as a secondary-school pupil he already formed a small band. A band formed while still at school suggests that leading others was part of his music from his school years.
After school he began studying to be a building draughtsman but quit early to try his luck in music. From 1933 to 1939 he belonged to the Rotterdam sextet The Jumping Jacks as accordionist and percussionist, and also wrote the arrangements and handled the business side. During the Second World War he escaped, with two other band members, from a transport to the Amersfoort camp, after refusing a call-up for forced labor in Germany. A building-draughtsman course set aside for music, and an orchestra led under a VARA contract, may point to a turn from technical studies toward leading a band. Combining accordion, percussion, arranging and business in one sextet suggests a many-sided musician.
Maasland wrote the tango Olé Guapa, his opus 4, in 1937, and in 1938 it was first released by Corny Ostermann. At first he struggled to get it published and had to carry part of the risk himself, but once it appeared, Olé Guapa quickly became a worldwide success. A tango written in 1937, in the middle of his years with The Jumping Jacks, may suggest that composing ran alongside his work in the sextet.
A contract with the VARA in 1946 increased the fame of the orchestra he led, and its time of triumph lay between 1947 and 1960. He won the Oscar Mondiale as best accordionist in Pavia in 1959, the Edison Prize in 1964, the Golden Harp of the Conamus foundation two years later, and a royal honor in 1973. On May 23, 1979, he took his final leave of public performance with a VARA television show. A final leave taken on a VARA show, the broadcaster of his 1946 contract, may suggest a long working tie between him and the VARA. An award given in Pavia, Italy, may suggest that his skill as an accordionist drew notice far from the Rotterdam of his youth.
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Malando was a pseudonym of the accordionist, bandleader and composer Arie Maasland, who lived from 1908 to 1980.
It is a tango Maasland wrote in 1937 as his opus 4, first released in 1938 by Corny Ostermann, and it became a worldwide success.
He won the Oscar Mondiale in 1959, the Edison Prize in 1964, the Golden Harp two years later and a royal honor in 1973.
He took his final leave from public performance on May 23, 1979, with a VARA television show.