Austrian folk songs

Austrian folk songs
legal form	society
founding	1904
Seat	Vienna ( ⊙ coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 11.8 ″ N , 16 ° 22 ′ 5.3 ″ E )
precursor	Austrian folk song company
purpose	Umbrella organization for the care of Austrian folk music
Chair	Josef Pühringer (President), Konrad Köstlin (Vice President)
Managing directors	Irene Egger
Members	9 folk songs from the federal states
Website	www.volksliedwerk.at

The Austrian Folk Song Works is the association of the folk song works of the federal states. Since it was founded as an Austrian folk song company in 1904, its task has been the collection, research and communication of folk music in its historical and contemporary forms. It administers and archives all of the tens of thousands of folk song, folk music and folk dance records in Austria and has been publishing a yearbook with valuable scientific articles since 1952, the yearbook of the Austrian Folk Song Works , the successor to the magazine Das deutsche Volkslied founded by Pommer in 1899 .

Historical

Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria-Hungary had the idea of dedicating a comprehensive, well-founded work to all peoples of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy: The Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in Words and Pictures . In relation to folk music , the company Das Volkslied in Austria took on this task in 1904 in cooperation with science. All Austrian crown lands were integrated into the huge organization, structured according to language groups (German, Slavic, Romance and others) and crown lands. The high school professor and member of the Reichstag, Josef Pommer , designed the scientific concept . The Moravian composer Leoš Janáček , the Prague Germanist Adolf Hauffen and the Slovenian song researcher Karl Strekelj worked together.

Current

Since the beginning of November, Governor Josef Pühringer ( Upper Austria ) has taken over the office of President of the Österreichisches Volksliedwerk from his predecessor Sepp Gmasz ( Burgenland ). The new Vice President is Konrad Köstlin , head of the Institute for European Ethnology at the University of Vienna . Honorary President is Walter Deutsch .

Memorial plaque for Georg Kotek in the new building

The central archive of the Austrian Folk Song Works, assigned to the Austrian National Library , contains documents of musical and poetic utterances. It has numerous handwritten records of texts and melodies and has the largest inventory of books and magazines on the subject of folk songs , folk music , folk dance and folk poetry in Austria. In addition to the great collections of Georg Kotek and Raimund Zoder , these works, leaflets and image documents are the basis for scientific work.

The collections of audio documents range from shellac to long-playing records, audio tapes and cassettes to digital tapes and CDs. They contain valuable, unique recordings from field research, as well as new CDs from current products. The collection is housed in the rooms of the Austrian Folk Song Works and is largely supported by the association. In addition to numerous projects, field research and training courses, the networking of the catalogs of the folk song archives of the federal states is an important task in making access to the diverse documents of the intangible cultural heritage from Austria accessible worldwide.

15,000 books and magazines
18,000 handwritten records
6,000 song leaflets
15,000 image documents
6,000 records

There are tens of thousands more such documents in the archives of the folk song works of the individual federal states, which are networked in a virtual database.

task

From the outset, it was planned to publish nationally delimited volumes for academic purposes under the title “Das Volkslied in Österreich. Folk poetry and folk music of the peoples living in Austria. Edited by KK Ministry of Culture and Education. ”Because of the First World War , this task could not be carried out for the time being. In 1918 only a rehearsal volume with 150 songs and dances appeared, which served as a template for the format and font of all volumes to be edited in German, Slavic and Romanesque Language should serve. The first real volumes in this series have been published under the title Corpus Musicae Popularis Austriacae (COMPA series) therefore only since 1992, the first being “Folk music in Lower Austria, St. Pölten and the surrounding area”.

Previously published volumes of the Corpus Musicae Popularis Austriacae series

Special volume (2004): The folk song in Austria (reprint of the sample volume from 1918)
Volume 1 (1992): Folk music in Lower Austria, St. Pölten and the surrounding area
Volume 2 (1993): Steyerische Tänze
Volume 3 (1994): Sacred songs from the Weinviertel singing tradition
Volume 4 (1995): Songs of the Christmas Festival Group
Volume 5 (1996): “Dance Music” Länders, Steirer and Schleunige for two violins from the Salzkammergut
Volume 6 (1997): The song manuscripts of the Clessin sisters
Volume 7 (1997): Burgenland folk ballads
Volume 8 (1998): The Landler
Volume 9 (1998): Songs for the Christmas season according to Tyrolean sources
Volume 10 (1999): Dances and pieces from the tape collection Dr. Alfred Quellmalz 1940–42
Volume 11 (1999): Spricanje ; The farewell song of the Croatians in Burgenland
Volume 12 (2000): songs and dances around 1800 from the Sonnleithner collection of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna
Volume 13 (2000): Melodiarium for Wilhelm Pailler's Christmas and Nativity Song Collection edited. In 1881 and 1883
Volume 14 (2001): Pielachtal; Musical forms of custom
Volume 15 (2002): Christmas shepherd songs from Carinthian sources
Volume 16 (2004): sayings, games and songs of children
Volume 17 (2005): Village dance music in Lutzmannsburg and Strebersdorf (1866–1966)
Volume 18 (2006): Klaus Petermayr. Songs and dances around 1800 in the Hausruckviertel
Volume 19 (2008): Thomas Hochradner. Songs and Schnaderhüpfl around 1900 from the collection of the “Working Committee for the Folk Song in Salzburg” (1908–1938).
Volume 20 (2010): Walter Deutsch and Ernst Weber. Folk music in Vienna. Weana dance (Viennese dances).
Volume 21 (2016): Max Rosenzopf. Folk music in Styria - West Styrian musicians. Verlag Böhlau 2016. ISBN 978-3-205-79649-7 .

Sub-organizations

There are folk song works in all Austrian federal states that have been independent associations since 1974.

Burgenland folk songs

It was constituted in 1927 as a working committee for Burgenland . In 1937 the archive had 8310 inventory numbers, most of which were lost in the chaos of war. In 1946 the working committee was re-established as part of what is now the Austrian Folk Song Works . In 1972 it was the first national organization to become an independent association. Sepp Gmasz has been in charge since 1996.

Kärntner Volksliedwerk - Kärntner Volksliedarchiv

The working committee for Carinthia was founded in 1905 and revived after the First World War in 1927. Manfred Riedl has been the chairman since 2002.

Folk culture of Lower Austria - Lower Austrian folk songs

In 1993 the Lower Austrian Folk Song Works separated from the Vienna and Austrian Folk Song Works. In 1998 Volkskultur Niederösterreich BetriebsGmbH was founded as a contemporary culture management company. The chairman is GD Johannes Coreth.

Upper Austrian folksong work

The Upper Austrian Volksliedwerk is a contact point for regional music culture in the state of Upper Austria.

The independent institution, created in 1974, belongs to the Association of Folk Songs of the Austrian Federal States. The main task is the collection, archiving, documentation, research and communication of musical folk culture in past and present manifestations. This should contribute to the preservation and enlivening of the country's cultural heritage.

history

In 1906 the working committee for Upper Austria and Salzburg was established. Anton Matosch developed a lively collecting activity based on the historical collections of Wilhelm Pailler and Anton von Spaun . For more than fifty years , the archivist was Hans Commenda junior , who is considered to be the most important Upper Austrian folk music collector and researcher.

In 1971, in addition to the extensive collection of the working committee and the specialist library, the state of Upper Austria also acquired the Commenda's estate to create an archive in the Panzaglgut museum depot. In 1974 the Upper Austrian Folk Song Works was founded and found a place to stay in the Ursulinenhof regional cultural center in Linz before it came to the Upper Austrian regional museums in 2001 .

Holdings, publications, members

The archive's holdings include manuscripts with around 35,000 titles (excluding games and rhymes), a library with more than 5,000 specialist books, including more than 7,000 articles, more than 3,000 songbooks and well over 100,000 instrumental notes for more than 15,000 titles and more than 1,500 AV media including all tracks.

From the archive holdings, compilations in the form of songbooks are created and published; the range includes around one hundred titles. Scientific reviews are published on a case-by-case basis. The offer also includes training and further education events for musicians, singers and dancers as well as teachers and dance leaders for children and young people.

The Upper Austrian Folk Song Association has around two thousand members in the entire Alpine region (as of April 2009).

Salzburger Volkskultur - Salzburger Volksliedwerk

In 1906 the working committee for Upper Austria. and Salzburg . In 1908 a separate "Working Committee for the Folk Song in Salzburg" was set up under the chairman Josef Reiter, who was replaced in 1912 by Curt Rotter . On March 6, 1973, the constituent general assembly of the Salzburger Volksliedwerk association took place in the Chiemseehof. The Salzburger Volksliedwerk was now, like most other regional organizations, an independent association under its first chairman Cesar Bresgen . Roswitha Meikl has been the CEO since 2005.

The Salzburger Volksliedwerk is a sub-organization of the Salzburg folk culture .

Styrian folk songs

The working committee for the Styrian folk song was founded on June 7, 1905, the first chairman was the Reichsrat member Josef Pommer . The archive was first located at Pommer in Vienna, and from 1911 in the Graz regional archive. In 1940 the archive came to the University of Graz and was thus spared from the effects of bombs. After 1945 it was reactivated as a free commission at the Federal Ministry for Education . In 1947 the working committee for Styria was re-established and the collection material was moved to the building of the Styrian Folklore Museum.

In 1974 the Styrian Folk Song Works was founded as an independent association and incorporated into the State Youth Department in 1981. The chairman is Gunther Hasewend, the managing director is Monika Primas.

Since 1991 the office for Christmas carols has been answering questions about Christmas carols as the service point of the Styrian Folk Song Works in the Advent season.

Tiroler Volksliedwerk - Tiroler Volksliedarchiv

The Tiroler Volksliedwerk (TVW) / Tiroler Volksliedarchiv (TVA) has existed since 1905 and is the central institution for musical folk culture in North, East and South Tyrol. His area of responsibility includes collecting and researching folk music and folk songs , archiving, documenting and disseminating them in the form of publications (CDs, music books, etc.). In addition to tens of thousands of documents on secular and sacred songs and folk music, the Tyrolean folk song archive stores over 10,000 sound recordings from field research (e.g. South Tyrol and East Tyrol / Manfred Schneider collections; Wildschönau / Sigrid Köhler collections; Pitztal, Lechtal, Kaisergebirge / Sonja Ortner collections, collections Hinteres Zillertal / Martina Natter). The Tyrolean Folk Song Archive has been administered by the Tiroler Landesmuseen Betriebsges.mbH since 2007, and the Tyrolean Folk Song Works (which until then was in charge of the administration) has been a member association since then to promote and support the work of this elementary institution of regional folk culture. The archive manager is currently Sonja Ortner. www.volkslied.at

Vorarlberger Volksliedwerk

The current chairwoman is Anita Frühwirth.

Wiener Volksliedwerk

The Volksliedwerk was set up in 1904 as a "Commission" at the Ministry of Culture at that time. The “Archive of Vienna and Lower Austria” was managed jointly from 1974 to 1993, after the separation, the Viennese folk song plant moved from the premises of the Austrian folk song plant to the “Bockkeller”. Ing.Herbert Zotti is the executive chairman.

Web links

Official website

Individual evidence

^ Yearbook of the Austrian Folk Song Works , Volume 1, Vienna 1952, self-published by the Federal Ministry for Education.
^ Yearbook of the Austrian Folk Song Works , Volume 53/54, 2004/2005, Mille Tre Verlag Vienna, ISBN 3-900198-07-1 .

↑ Yearbook of the Austrian Folk Song Works , Volume 55, 2006, Mille Tre Verlag Vienna, ISBN 978-3-900198-13-8

↑ CORPUS MUSICAE POPULARIS AUSTRIACAE (COMPA), Walter Deutsch Volksmusik in Lower Austria - St. Pölten and the surrounding area , Böhlau Verlag Vienna, ISBN 3-205-98097-2

↑ About Upper Austria. Volksliedwerk - the competence center for folk music ( Memento from February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), in: OÖ. Country correspondence, documents for the press conference on April 20, 2009 (PDF; 136 kB)

↑ P. ( Josef Pommer ): From Salzburg. In: Das deutsche Volkslied 11 (1909), p. 74; NN: The working committee for Upper Austria and Salzburg. In: Das deutsche Volkslied 11 (1909), p. 146; CR ( Curt Rotter ): The folk song in Austria. Working committee for the folk song in Salzburg. In: Das deutsche Volkslied 14 (1912), p. 188.

↑ Harald Dengg: From the work of the Salzburger Volksliedwerk. In: Salzburger Heimatpflege 4/1 (1980), pp. 95–98, here p. 96.

^ Styrian folk song work: song service . Retrieved November 30, 2015.

[1] Yearbook of the Austrian Folk Song Works , Volume 1, Vienna 1952, self-published by the Federal Ministry for Education.

[2] Yearbook of the Austrian Folk Song Works , Volume 53/54, 2004/2005, Mille Tre Verlag Vienna, ISBN 3-900198-07-1 .

[3] Yearbook of the Austrian Folk Song Works , Volume 55, 2006, Mille Tre Verlag Vienna, ISBN 978-3-900198-13-8

[4] CORPUS MUSICAE POPULARIS AUSTRIACAE (COMPA), Walter Deutsch Volksmusik in Lower Austria - St. Pölten and the surrounding area , Böhlau Verlag Vienna, ISBN 3-205-98097-2

[5] About Upper Austria. Volksliedwerk - the competence center for folk music ( Memento from February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), in: OÖ. Country correspondence, documents for the press conference on April 20, 2009 (PDF; 136 kB)

[6] P. ( Josef Pommer ): From Salzburg. In: Das deutsche Volkslied 11 (1909), p. 74; NN: The working committee for Upper Austria and Salzburg. In: Das deutsche Volkslied 11 (1909), p. 146; CR ( Curt Rotter ): The folk song in Austria. Working committee for the folk song in Salzburg. In: Das deutsche Volkslied 14 (1912), p. 188.

[7] Harald Dengg: From the work of the Salzburger Volksliedwerk. In: Salzburger Heimatpflege 4/1 (1980), pp. 95–98, here p. 96.

[8] Styrian folk song work: song service . Retrieved November 30, 2015.