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Panoramaler, with which they thank HERZ for its long and sound co-operation.On the occasion of the 150 th anniversary of Johann Strauß’(senior) death, the work was presented during the first concert forHERZ customers in the museum of natural history in Vienna on25 th September 2003.HERZ Armaturen then commissioned a piece of work which wasdedicated to all customers and partners of HERZ. This is how the"Plumbers’ Polka" evolved, the musical topic of which picks up onthe plumber’s work.Immortalized on the "Vienna installations II" CDThe CD was produced as a gift to HERZ customers and friends andcontains a short history of the Vienna music scene. It starts chronologicallywith the first work of Joseph Lanner, reminiscent of Schubert’s"New Vienna Country Dance" and leads into various stages of developmentfrom the Vienna waltz to the evolution of a new generation("First thoughts" of August Lanner) and the complete assumption ofthe paternal heritage (Johann Strauß junior and Josef and EduardStrauß). The two works of the Reutterer/Müller duo have broughtthis tradition up to the present day (Lyrics Sinkovicz).The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra plays for HERZThe CD was recorded by the Vienna Violin Quartet (Wiener GeigenQuartett) in the abbey church of Sacre Coeur in Pressbaum. Thefour musicians, Günter Seifert – violin, Eckhard Seifert – violin andviola, Milan Šetena – violin – all members of the Vienna PhilharmonicOrchestra – and Josef Pitzek – double bass, member of the RadioSymphonic Orchestra, devoted themselves to the works of JosephLanner and Johann Strauß senior. To give their music a free and easystyle, the quartet is standing during the performance – a practicethat is unfortunately not very common nowadays.The "Plumbers’ Polka" in Russian – a surprise for HERZHERZ music is already well known outside Austria. During a studentaward celebration in June 2003 – one of the HERZ sponsoring andsupport missions at the university for construction and architecturein Dnipropetrovsk (Ukraine), Gerhard Glinzerer, HERZ managingdirector, received a surprise. Roman Gomasenko, doctoral candidateof the construction academy in Dnipropetrovsk, turned out to be atalented lyrics writer and singer and presented his own Russian versionof the "Plumbers’ Polka".Russian version of the "Plumbers’ Polka"René Reutterer and Werner Müller (from left to right) were askedby HERZ Armaturen to compose the "Plumbers’ Polka".Dr. Gerhard Glinzerer, managing director of HERZ, Mag. OksanaPolianskaja, HERZ export manager for Eastern Europe and Prof.Leontij Tschesanov, construction academy Dnipropetrovsk, wereamazed to hear the Russian version of the "Plumbers’ Polka",created by Roman Gomansenko.3/2003 15