(Berlin, October 31, 1925 – Baden-Baden, November 2008). Pseudonyms: Addy Flor, Addi Flor. He was a German composer, arranger, conductor and guitarist. Arno Flor studied in Berlin.
From 1948 he was employed as guitarist, arranger and conductor with Werner Müller’s Rias Dance Orchestra. From 1954 he worked freelance for Franz Thon, Erwin Lehn and Robert Stolz. In the 1960s, he arranged parts of the film music for various Karl May films for Martin Böttcher. As orchestra conductor, he accompanied numerous well-known artists.
In addition, Flor founded his own dance and entertainment orchestra in the 1970s, with which he recorded several albums using the quadrophonic Q-Matrix method. In doing so, he preferred to work on classical themes by Beethoven, Chopin, Tchaikovsky or Verdi.
57 recordings by Arno Flor you can hear at Instrumentals Forever:
A Touch Of Romance • An Einem Tag Im Frühling • Ballet Valse • Barcarole • Bei Dir War Es Immer So Schön • Bei Zärtlicher Musik • Blume Von Hawaii • Canzonetta • Dornröschen • Du Warst Für Mich Der Schönste Liebestraum • Ein Paar Tränen • Einmal Von Herzen Verliebt Sein • Elégie • Feeling Your Nearness • Freedom • Ganz Leise Kommt Die Nacht • Germont’s Song • Good-Night (Reich Mir Zum Abschied Noch Einmal Die Hände) • Gypsy Bossa Nova • Heaven And Earth • Ich Möcht Einmal Wieder Verliebt Sein • Illusion • It Takes Two • King Of Spain • La Donna • Lady In Blue • Lonesome Horn • Lost Without Love • Loveley Girl • Lovers’ Prelude • Marchin’ In • Marching Radames • Menuett For Lovers • Nadeshda • Nur Um Dich Zu Lieben • Pretty Aida • Rodina • Romance • Sag’ Mir Nicht Adieu • Scherzo Pizzicato • Schön Wie Der Junge Frühling • Schwanensee • Since I Met You • Skyflame • Slavonic March • Smilin’ Moon • Sugar Juice • Talking Trumpets • Tenderness • Tipsy Bugle • Trumpet Happening • Trumpet Lullaby • Violetta • Walking Duck • Whistling Gilda • Wie Hab’ Ich Nur Leben Können Ohne Dich • You Passed My Way •
