Carl Faust (composer)

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Carl Faust (also Karl Faust , born February 18, 1825 in Neisse , Province of Silesia , † September 12, 1892 in Bad Kudowa ) was a Prussian military musician and composer .

Life

Carl Faust completed his school days in Neisse. Because of his musical talent, he was then trained as a military musician in Sankt Annaberg, Upper Silesia .

In 1853 he became the Stabsoboisten appointed and took over the leadership of the military band of the 36th Prussian Fusilier - Regiment in Halle (Saale) . In 1859 he was transferred to the Silesian Grenadier Regiment No. 11 in Breslau . In 1865 he resigned from military service and took over the orchestra management of the Philharmonie in Waldenburg , where he was appointed town music director in 1869.

Carl Faust composed over 200 works, including waltzes , polkas and marches , which were written catchy and melodious and earned him the nickname of the Silesian waltz king . With the exception of a few marches, the works are largely forgotten today:

His Marsch Glück auf , op. 127 (1865) has been preserved to this day . This was so well received as his masterpiece in the neighboring Kingdom of Saxony - possibly because of the well-known Freiberg miners' song used in the trio, "It's ringing again from the shaft ..." - that the 2nd Saxon Grenadier Regiment in Dresden assigned it as a parade march got. This regiment resided next to the body grenadiers of the 1st Grenadier Regiment in the large barracks area of ​​Dresden Albertstadt until the fall of the Kingdom of Saxony in 1918. The Austrian Infantry Regiment No. 77, founded in 1860, was also assigned the piece as a regimental march. After 1866 and the end of the German War , it was renamed the “Skalitz-Marsch” in Austria. In 1961 the march was lucky! included in the army march collection of the Bundeswehr (AM II, No. 157).

The “parade march”, which has also been part of the army march collection since 1961 (AM II, no. 126), was created in 1855. With it, Faust participated in a competition from the Berlin publisher Bote & Bock and received first prize for it. He was the parade march of the Royal Württemberg Pioneer Battalion No. 13 in Ulm .

His polka “Die Sutlerin” was also included in the army march collection as a trot march (AM III, No. 213).

His march "With sounding game", op. 177, was regimental march of the infantry regiment No. 90 in Rostock , also known is the "Steiger march", as a variation with the well-known Steigerlied .

His Quadrille op. 40 was the standard choice for the "Quadrille des Lanciers" until the 1960s.

literature

  • Gösta Andersson: The forgotten waltz king . In: Deutsche Johann Strauss Society (Ed.): New Life - Bulletin of the German Johann Strauss Society , Issue 44, 2013, No. 4, p. 46. ISSN  1438-065X

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ludwig Burkhardt and Ursula Burkhardt: Quadrille à la Cour Les Lanciers. An exact representation of the dance performance with explanatory sketches, the old French commands and with an enclosure “Dance Announcements” in German for the hand of the dance leader. Regensburg; 1962; 30 pp.
personal data
SURNAME Faust, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Faust, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Silesian military musician and composer
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH Neisse , Province of Silesia
DATE OF DEATH September 12, 1892
Place of death Bad Kudowa