“Leise rieselt der Schnee” (= “The snow falls softly”) or “Let It Snow” (from Google Translate) is a famous German Christmas Song. I found it also in my learning piano playing book.
Within a view hours I created this dance version with a very personal melody added to the original one.
Some day a colleague told me that they want to make a birthday present for their manager. Everyone should send a picture and write some nice words. And I have been asked to create a nice music.
During lockdown many are in home office and use Microsoft® Teams. The first time when I called my colleague I thought: “What a nice tune.”
Months later shorty before a long weekend I tried to call my colleague. But I only reached the voicemail. I shut down my computer and went into my studio.
I can remember exactly: I was under the shower at the tennis hall we are playing regular in winter season. A smartphone from a colleague outside rang and played a music. I knew this melody, but could not identify it. But I was sure it was something that was played at the Vienna New Year’s Concert. So I listened to all recordings from the past – and I found it in 2018: “Wilhelm Tell-Galopp, op. 29b” from Johann Strauss I.
This inspired me to make a dance version of this famous traditional piece of music.
A TV station broadcasted all James Bond films. The first one (“Dr. No“) contains a scene with Sean Connery and Ursula Andress had a scene where she sang this song.
This inspired me to create this dance version. I took the original vocals from Diana Coupland. It was my first project where I used vocals in this way.
On TV there was a serial remake „M – Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder“ from the drama-thriller film „M“ created 1931. The film was one of the first to use a leitmotif, a technique borrowed from opera, associating a tune with the main character, who whistles the tune “In the Hall of the Mountain King” from Edvard Grieg’s Peer Gynt Suite No. 1.
I found this tune so inspiring and created a dance track.