Biography

Orchester Claudius Alzner
Effective period / Period of releases: 1956 - 1992
Members: Viktor Plasil, Claudius Alzner, Rudolf Hansen, Robert Opratko, Franz Bileck, Fritz Beyer, Mariano Abadias, Richard Österreicher, Willi Fantl, Julius Scheybal, Gerti Winklbauer-Zourek
Austrian studio orchestra, led by Claudius Alzner. They were often backing famous Austrian and German schlager singers of the Sixties, as well as releasing mostly instrumental Easy Listening records by themselves. They were besides Orchester Johannes Fehring Austria's most renown orchestra of that time, also containing some of the same musicians. There is also a lot of releases, mainly the "Cocktail International" series that got played by Claudius Alzner Und Seine Solisten which is a spin-off of the orchestra.