Sepp Tanzer

Sepp Tanzer (born February 28, 1907 in Matrei am Brenner , Tyrol ; † February 28, 1983 in Kramsach ) was an Austrian composer for brass music .

Life

Sepp Tanzer came into contact with music from an early age. Accompanied by their father, the five siblings sang to the guests in their parents' tavern when they were elementary school students. He learned the clarinet from the Matrei am Brenner band. After elementary school, he attended a community school and then did an apprenticeship as a blacksmith and worked briefly as a blacksmith's journeyman in Matrei am Brenner and Schwaz . At the age of 18 he was able to begin his career aspiration as a musician in the Tyrolean Military Music as a clarinetist and oboist. In the military, an eight-man group was formed as dance music , where his brother Hermann Tanzer was there, who played balls, which also improved the low wages in the military as a part-time job. Tanzer also played on a temporary basis in small groups such as the Fidelen Wiltenern and Fidelen Inntalers . At a ball in Rattenberg, Sepp also met his future wife Olga. At the end of his ten years with the Tyrolean Military Music Association, he did a 6-month civil trial service at the tax office in Innsbruck and was taken on as an official at the tax office on January 31, 1936.

Sepp Tanzer became a musician in the Wilten music band in 1926 and became its Kapellmeister in 1935 and was a necessary member of the Kapellmeisterunion from January 1, 1935. In 1936 he became a member of the Patriotic Front in the Austro-Fascist corporate state and was music advisor to the Tyrolean provincial government .

In July 1938, Sepp Tanzer became a member of the NSDAP . The Wilten music band was now called with a Gaumusikzug , and he was designated as their Kapellmeister with Gaumusikzugführer . The Wilten music band usually performed in SA uniform, and the Kapellmeister wore the uniform of a political leader at the 1938 Nazi Party Congress in Nuremberg . Transferred to German civil service law on October 1, 1938, he completed three training courses in finance in 1939 and 1940 with the Reinhard course in Innsbruck, the tax trainee course at the Reich Finance School in Leitmeritz in Bohemia and the course for cashiers at the Reich Finance School in Herrsching am Ammersee .

Sepp Tanzer arranged for the South Tyrolean musician Sepp Thaler to work at the folk song archive in Innsbruck when he was relocated to Innsbruck from Italian custody in 1939 . Both of them took four years of private lessons with Josef Eduard Ploner in harmony and counterpoint . In mutual correspondence they called themselves a so-called clover leaf with Sepp I for Ploner, Sepp II for Thaler and Sepp III for Tanzer.

From December 1, 1941 he was released from the tax office by Gauleiter Franz Hofer and moved into an office in the new country house, then called Gauhaus , as a government assistant, responsible for training the music bands of the professional rifle association and as a gau music inspector, the highest musical authority in the Gau. He was the director of music for Tyrol-Vorarlberg and headed the folk music department in the Reichsmusikkammer . As part of these functions, he conducted the Badonviller March when Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler met at the Brenner on March 18, 1940.

Due to the protracted war, the village bands were so much reduced in size by the military service of the men at the front that the matter lost its meaning. On November 21, 1944, Sepp Tanzer was drafted into military service via Graz and deployed in Yugoslavia , fell ill with diphtheria, and returned to Tyrol after a year through stays in military hospitals and American prisoners of war. He was unemployed there because the tax office no longer took over or was not allowed to take over him. He lived with a sister, where a house search was carried out by the French occupying forces. Sepp Tanzer withdrew and found work in agricultural activity on an alpine pasture in the Brandenberg community . After that he was able to start as Kapellmeister in the community of Schönberg in the Stubaital in 1946 and received an unofficial job as community secretary in order to rebuild his existence. With the resolution of the municipal council of Schönberg on May 7, 1949, he was officially installed as municipal secretary.

In 1948 Sepp Tanzer began a collaboration with Radio Innsbruck under Josef Scheidle . Tanzer officially became a freelancer on January 1, 1950, and on January 1, 1951 employed as a clerk for folk music, folk song, choirs and brass music in the so-called department for folk music. Later Sepp Tanzer became the main speaker in the folk music department. In 1972 he stopped working for ORF-Tirol . He was elected to the works council at the Landesstudio Tirol and later to the works council chairman. Sepp Tanzer returned to the new country house, which he had to leave in 1944 for the war. The offices and technical facilities as well as the archive of Radio Innsbruck were on the 3rd floor of the country house. The great hall of the country house and the city hall were used for radio recordings of bands and groups, where Sepp Tanzer was the production manager, and sometimes also the musical director.

Although Tanzer was banned from performing for three years after 1945, he could not part with his basic ideological stance and continued to use National Socialist codes from the period before 1938 in his works after 1945, such as in the Suite Tirol 1809 composed in 1952 . Shortly after the war, Tanzer also supported the communists and marched with the Wilten town band despite being banned from performing in the communist May March 1946.

Sepp Tanzer ran intermittently from 1935 to 1977 the city Wilten Innsbruck, which goes back to a parish music from 1650, from 1814 an independent chapel and 1938-1945 in Gaumusikzug has been renamed.

Sepp Tanzer was a professor at the Tyrolean State Conservatory . For many years he worked as regional music director in the Tyrolean brass band . In 1980 he was followed by the composer Florian Pedarnig as regional music director . From 1956 to 1966 he led annual Kapellmeister courses for the Vorarlberger Blasmusikverband in the community of Egg , where Hans Felix Husadel taught.

When he died on February 28, 1983 in Kramsach, he had created over 150 brass music compositions and promoted and helped shape the brass music literature.

Awards

• 1964 professional title professor
• 1965 Cross of Merit of the State of Tyrol
• 1976 Decoration of Honor for Art and Culture of the City of Innsbruck
• 2004 Sepp-Tanzer-Straße in the city of Wörgl
• 2008–2013 Sepp-Tanzer Regional Music School Kramsach

Political reception

On February 28, 2008, the regional music school in the municipality of Kramsach in the Kufstein district was renamed Sepp-Tanzer-Landesmusikschule Kramsach in a festive ceremony . Even then, an article about the renaming in the daily newspaper Kurier with the headline Music School named after the former NS-Gau music director called the matter into question. The performance of a march by Sepp Tanzer in 1996 at the beatification of priests Jakob Gapp and Otto Neururer in Rome, who were murdered by the National Socialists, had already caused displeasure. The journalist Alois Schöpf , himself Kapellmeister , has pointed out the inappropriate context. Cultural State Councilor Erwin Koler , approached by the Kurier about Tanzer's Nazi past, said in an interview with Kurier: This is my first hearing today. In connection with a current trial of the Tyrolean People's Party against the publicist Markus Wilhelm , the daily newspaper Der Standard published an article on August 26, 2013 with Ein NS-Hetzer in word and tone . Thereupon the cultural councilor Beate Palfrader informed that the historian Michael Wedekind has been commissioned to produce an expert opinion since 2012, which should be available in early October 2013. According to ORF-Vorarlberg on September 11, 2013, it was reported that the Tyrolean provincial government kept a finished report under lock and key, the publication of which has already been requested.

Reception of music history

In 2012, the Tyrolean State Museum Ferdinandeum hosted the exhibition Tyrolean Musical Life in the Nazi Era with a symposium on music and Nazism in Tyrol with a listening and film evening on works by Peter Zwetkoff , Bert Breit , Hannes Stütz and Uli Ritzer / Sepp Tanzer. In September 2013 the musicologist Christian Glanz gave a lecture at a symposium of the military music service of the Bundeswehr in Bonn on the National Socialist musical allusions in the compositions of Josef Eduard Ploner and Sepp Tanzer.

Works

Sepp Tanzer once named more than 200 operas for brass music and folk music. In 1995 Gerhard Sammer listed around 390 compositions and arrangements. There are arrangements for music in a small cast of compositions by G. Weissbacher. Furthermore works under the pseudonym Klaus Weimer for the Innsbruck folk musicians .

• 1941 Legends from Alt-Innsbrugg (waltz), published under the title Legends from Alt-Innsbruck .
• March 1942 Standschützen-Marsch (street march ), dedicated to the Gauleiter of Tyrol-Vorarlberg Franz Hofer
• 1947, 1950 The Song of the Alps
• 1948 Bozner Bergsteigermarsch (street march) for the text see: Bozner Bergsteigerlied
• 1952 Älplerische Weisen (concert piece ) - melodies for brass music
• 1952 Tyrol 1809 - Suite in 3 movements
• 1953 Mein Tirolerland (street march ), dedicated to chairman Josef Schumacher on the occasion of his 60th birthday
• 1953 Tirolerbuam march by Sepp Thaler (street march ), adaptation
• 1959 Haspinger March (street march ), probably intended for the Tyrolean freedom fighter Joachim Haspinger (1776–1858), dedicated to the St. Martin band
• 1963 Olympic march (concert march ), on the occasion of the 1964 Winter Olympics
• 1964 Klingendes Land - Overture for wind orchestra, dedicated to the Deputy Governor Hans Gamper
• 1971 Gerd-Bacher-Marsch (street march), dedicated to the general manager of the ORF Gerd Bacher

literature

• Gerhard Sammer: Sepp Tanzer (1907–1983). Life - work - environment: a monograph. Diploma thesis, Innsbruck 1995.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s} Gerhard Sammer: Sepp Tanzer (1907-1983). Life - work - environment. Master's thesis with Josef Sulz, Mozarteum - Department for Music Education in Innsbruck, Innsbruck 1995.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e} music school named after the former NS-Gau music director. Kurier, Austrian daily newspaper, Tirol edition, February 29, 2008, page 14; http://www.bilder-speicher.de/08022920971891.gratis-foto-hosting-page.html
3. ↑ ^{a b} Chronicle page of the Stadtmusikkapelle Wilten / Innsbruck wiltener.at, no author or date, accessed on September 13, 2013
4. ^ "Die Zeit", November 29, 2012, page 16; http://www.uibk.ac.at/musikwissenschaft/aktuelles/files/zeit_tirol.pdf
5. ^ Sepp Tanzer: Preparation of radio recordings. Article in the Austrian brass music newspaper (ÖBZ), March 1965, p. 1
6. ↑ The years 1946 to 1972. Activity in the radio. In: Gerhard Sammer: Sepp Tanzer (1907-1983). Life - work - environment. Innsbruck 1995.
7. ↑ ^{a b} Ivona Jelcic: Unambiguous NS codes. Tanzer, Ploner and National Socialism: But what does the music actually say? Scientists also find clear references to Nazi ideology in works after 1945. Tyrolean daily newspaper, September 11, 2013
8. ↑ the tiwag.org - diary. Retrieved September 26, 2017 . 
9. ^ ^{A b} "Nazi composer" Tanzer solves discussion ORF-Vorarlberg, September 11, 2013
10. ↑ Wolfgang Otter: Wörgl are catching up with brown shadows ( memento from September 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Tiroler Tageszeitung, September 19, 2013
11. ^ Tyrolean union youth demands renaming of all NS-related names. Kramsacher music school named after Nazi glorifier, CDs from the Institute for Tyrolean Music Research. imzoom.info of the KPÖ , July 28, 2011, archived from the original on September 13, 2013 ; accessed on December 2, 2018 . 
12. ↑ School drops unwanted names ORF-Tirol, September 3, 2013
13. ^ Thomas Trenkler : A Nazi propagandist in word and tone. The state of Tyrol honors Gau music director Sepp Tanzer and promoted the publication of more beautiful biographies of other Nazi composers. Der Standard, August 26, 2013
14. ↑ Thomas Trenkler: Tyrol is distancing itself from Sepp Tanzer. The music school in Kramsach is no longer named after the former director of music. Der Standard, September 4, 2013
15. ↑ Christine Preyer: Science should clarify and explain University Mozarteum Salzburg , Department for Music Education Innsbruck, 2012
16. ↑ Friedrich Anzenberger : Object of the month: Autograph of the waltz sagas from Alt-Insbrugg . In: Österreichischer Blasmusikverband (Ed.): Wind music research . No. 24 . Zeillern January 2016, p. 1 f . ( blasmusikjugend.at [PDF; 2.1 MB ]).
17. ^ Gerhard Sammer: Sepp Tanzer. 1995: The Upper Austrian Composition Competition 1953 did not award a 1st prize. Sepp Tanzer received the 2nd prize for <Älplerische Weisen> and a 3rd prize for <Das Lied der Alpen>.
18. ^ Gerhard Sammer: Sepp Tanzer. 1995: The 1952 brass music composition competition was announced by the Tyrolean provincial government , ORF -Tirol and the federal public education consultants for Tyrol. There were around 170 submissions. A first prize, two second prizes and three third prizes were awarded and endowed. Sepp Tanzer received first prize for <Tirol 1809> and second prize for <Der Festtag>.