''Gassenhauer nach Hans Neusiedler (1536)'', commonly known as ''Gassenhauer'' (), is a short piece from

Orff Schulwerk The Orff Schulwerk, or simply the Orff Approach, is a developmental approach used in music education. It combines music, movement, drama, and speech into lessons that are similar to a child's world of play. It was developed by the German comp ...

, developed during the 1920's by

Carl Orff Carl Orff (; 10 July 1895 – 29 March 1982) was a German composer and music educator, best known for his cantata '' Carmina Burana'' (1937). The concepts of his Schulwerk were influential for children's music education. Life Early life Carl ...

with long-time collaborator

Gunild Keetman The German educator Gunild Keetman (5 June 1904, Elberfeld – 14 December 1990, Breitbrunn) was the primary originator of the approach to teaching music known as Orff Schulwerk. Keetman was responsible for most of the actual teaching that was done ...

. As the full title indicates, it is an arrangement of a much older work by the

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from 1536. It (along with several other Orff Schulwerk pieces) is credited to Keetman on a 1995 release of the Schulwerk. As with many other pieces from the Schulwerk, it has been used multiple times on television, radio, music and in films, including the films ''

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'' (1973), ''

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'' (1993) (arrangement by

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), '' Ratcatcher'' (1999), ''

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'' (2000), '' Monster'' (2003), Michael Moore's '' Capitalism: A Love Story'' (2009), ''

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'' 22nd-season episode " The Scorpion's Tale" (2011), ''

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'' (2020), ''The Simpsons'' 33rd-season episode " Mothers and Other Strangers" (2021) and '' Mad God'' (2021). The piece was used as the theme music for an afternoon radio program also titled ''Gassenhauer'' on the classical music station

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in Cleveland, Ohio, in the 1970s.

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