Austrian brass music museum
The Austrian Brass Music Museum is a music museum and a research and documentation center for brass music in Oberwölz in the Murau district in Styria . The local folklore museum for the region around Oberwölz and the Lachtal is also housed in the museum building. Brass music has a high cultural value in Austria. There are 2100 active brass bands.
Buildings and history
Oberwölz is one of the smallest towns in Styria. In the city itself there is a diverse musical life with two brass bands , different choirs, the Perstl-Viergesang and a new middle school with a focus on music. We are also proud that Oberwölz has already been visited twice by Sepp Forcher with his folk music and traditional program Klingendes Österreich .
The Austrian Brass Music Museum Oberwölz was opened in 1997. Efforts to create an Austrian center for research into brass music go back to the 1970s. The idea for a "Folklore Museum" resulted in a presentation of brass music in its entire historical and sociological dimension. In the late 1980s, the plans were implemented by a group of committed people. Besides officials, academic staff and public bodies that were the then Oberwölzer Mayor Siegfried Krainer, the ÖBV -President Friedrich Weyermüller, the Federal conductor Eugen Brixel and the Board of the Institute of Ethnomusicology at the University of Music and Dramatic Arts Graz , Wolfgang Suppan . The museum is located in an old town house (town no. 15) directly in front of the Schöttltor, a preserved town gate on the old connecting road across the Alps to the north. The new wing of the museum is built directly onto the historic city wall in the courtyard of the building. Since 2017, the scientific director of the Austrian Wind Music Museum Oberwölz, Rudolf Gstättner, succeeds the musicologist Bernhard Habla.
It presents objects from the history of Austrian brass music that are well worth seeing on around 600 m² in new showrooms on three floors and two to three special exhibition rooms.
Permanent exhibition
On display are exhibits from the military music tradition of the 19th century to contemporary amateur music . The heart of the collection are wood and brass instruments from the 19th and 20th centuries, with the high tuning typical of Austria . At a computer terminal, visitors to the Radetzky March by Johann Strauss (father) can see the difference between the “high” tuning (a1 = 461 Hz.) And the “normal” tuning (a1 = 440 Hz) using various sound samples and Listen to variants.
Topics such as “From classical harmony music to contemporary brass music” are presented in slides. The history of music is shown, from classical harmony music, which reached its heyday at the aristocratic courts at the end of the 18th century, to contemporary brass music. Another slide show is dedicated to the performances of Austrian musician groups. Another digital image documentation documents the 2,100 "Austrian brass bands and wind orchestras". In a "cinema corner" DVD presentations of various brass music events are shown. The photo gallery also shows its best-known representatives of brass music, composers, band masters and conductors.
In the museum's permanent exhibition there are wooden, brass and percussion instruments. There are almost forgotten instruments such as the knapsack tuba and other witnesses to longstanding musical traditions. In addition, objects related to music history can be seen. These are various drum carriages, conductors baton, devices for printing music, showpieces for the development of music printing, original scores and sheet music. Of the not quite common instruments, a glass trumpet or a walking stick trumpet are worth mentioning. A special feature is the ebony baton from military bandmaster Franz Lehar , who became known as an operetta composer. Austria's largest clarinet display can be found in Oberwölz . Many badges of honor for musicians are also shown.
The exhibition shows the musicians' clothes, uniforms from imperial times, traditional costumes and the black mountain smocks of the mountain bands that are so typical in Styria. Details on the headgear of the mountain chapels , the kalpak, are explained: The color of the spring bush allows conclusions to be drawn about the raw material extracted in the pits - white for salt , black for coal , green for ores, red for magnesite and blue for precious metals .
When it became possible to play back music with a delayed gramophone and radio at the beginning of the 20th century , the music of military and entertainment marching bands played an important role. There were and still are numerous ( shellac ) records from this time. Brass music was a regular item on the radio. The museum staff will play gramophone music on request.
The museum also makes it possible for children to experience music. A “museum rally” with action corners for knowledge and skills in music and hands-on activities.
Special exhibitions
- 2020/2021 Brass music attracts - a traditional sound experience from yesterday to today on the history of clothing - with a focus on traditional costume - of the Austrian brass bands .
- 2018/2019 were shown under the topic Gehundsteh - Herzsoweh Jodler und Weisen in the music books of the Austrian music bands.
- In 2011 it went under the title Singan is unsa Freid! around the 150th anniversary of the Oberwölz Choral Society of the Styrian Singers' Association.
- In 2009 there was the special exhibition " Minstrels and Hunting Horn Blowers "
Documentation center of the Austrian Brass Music Association (ÖBV)
The Documentation Center of the Austrian Brass Music Association (ÖBV) operates a showroom in the museum in cooperation with the municipality of Oberwölz and the Austrian Brass Music Museum. The ÖBV has been archiving material on the history of associations and brass music since 2008. 2018 was about the 70th anniversaries of the Association of South Tyrolean Music Bands and the ÖBV, and the 10th anniversary of the ÖBV Documentation Center. The presentation of the ÖBV Documentation Center can be viewed during the museum's opening hours.
Research and Teaching
- Due to its extensive material, the brass music museum in Oberwölz offers future high school graduates who are making music to help them find a topic for their pre-scientific work (VWA).
Awards
- 2018 Awarded the museum seal of approval .
literature
- Bernhard Habla: Austrian Brass Music Museum Oberwölz / Styria (history, instruments, clothing etc. of Austrian brass music) , museum booklet, Oberwölz 2008.
- Rudolf Gstättner: Walking doggie heartache. Yodelers and wise men in the music books of the Austrian music bands, accompanying book for the special exhibition of the same name in 2018 with reflections on the tradition of the Austrian wise musicians. Oberwölz 2018
Web links
- Austrian Brass Music Museum Oberwölz / Styria: Austrian Brass Music Museum. Retrieved October 28, 2019 (official museum site).
- MUSIS - Styrian Museum Association: Austrian Brass Music Museum . www.steirischemuseen.at, accessed on October 28, 2019 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kleine Zeitung (ed.): Blasmusik im Wandel. State of Styria April 16, 2019, p. 22 .
- ^ ORF report - Wind Music Museum Oberwölz. ORF Steiermark , accessed on September 24, 2019 .
- ^ A b Sonja Haider: Franz Lehar's baton as a gift. Tomorrow the season starts in the Oberwölzer Wind Music Museum. And on May 9th there will be a show about musicians and hunting horn players. Ed .: Small newspaper . Federal state of Styria April 30, 2009, p. 35 .
- ↑ a b Rudolf Gstättner: The Austrian Brass Music Museum Oberwölz - a place of research, education and communication. Ed .: Austrian Brass Music Museum. Oberwölz May 2019, p. 3 (unpublished).
- ↑ Homepage Rudolf Gstättner. Retrieved May 18, 2019 .
- ↑ Brass Music Museum: The Museum. blasmusikmuseum.istsuper.com, accessed May 17, 2019 .
- ↑ Kleine Zeitung (ed.): Brass music from A to Z to attack. Two museums in Styria are dedicated to the topic of brass music with hundreds of finds. State of Styria June 22, 2014, p. 26th f .
- ↑ Special exhibitions 2018/2019. blasmusikmuseum.istsuper.com, accessed May 28, 2019 .
- ↑ Barbara Winkler: A song of praise for the choir. The 150th anniversary of the Oberwölz Choir was the reason to set up an exhibition about singing. It starts on May 1st. Ed .: Kronen Zeitung . Styria March 27, 2011, p. 22 .
- ↑ Documentation Center. www.blasmusik.at, accessed on October 28, 2019 .
- ↑ Blasmusikmuseum Oberwölz - pre-scientific work. www.blasmusik.at, accessed on October 28, 2019 .
- ↑ These museums now have a museum seal of approval. Kleine Zeitung , October 11, 2018, accessed on October 28, 2019 .
Coordinates: 47 ° 12 ′ 17.8 ″ N , 14 ° 16 ′ 54 ″ E