Dominik Ertl

Dominik Ertl (by Ignaz Eigner , 1887)

Dominik Ertl (born April 12, 1857 in Vienna ; † February 4, 1911 there ) was an Austrian composer and later Kapellmeister of the high and German masters .

Life

Grave at the Hernalser Friedhof

Dominik Ertl was a regiment drum with the Austrian Infantry Regiment No. 4. Ertl worked as an operetta conductor and conductor in Dresden . Numerous compositions , piano reductions , dances , waltzes, polkas, marches and around 200 couplets , marches and Viennese songs have been preserved from his hand .

Ertl was a student of Professors Heissler, Dont and Bruckner, traveled to Germany as a violin concertist, was Kapellmeister in Danzer's Orpheum in Vienna in 1889 and concert conductor in Riga around 1893. He worked, made music and composed in Vienna, where he died in 1911. His best-known composition is the “Hoch- und Deutschmeister-March”, which is still one of the great traditional Austrian marches today.

His compositions are in Vienna a. a. published by Gustav Lewy, Carl Haslinger and Otto Maaß in Germany by Johann André.

His honorary grave is in the Hernalser Friedhof in Vienna (group 24, number 112).

Works (selection)

By the Schrammeln!
Man is not a krowat
Didio, zip, zip
An evening with the German champions , a great humorous sound painting
Hoch- and Deutschmeister march
My only joy is my boyfriend
Without men
Wood mermaids (waltz)

literature

Ertl Dominik. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 266.
Elisabeth Th. Hilscher-Fritz, Monika Kornberger: Ertl, Dominik. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-7001-3043-0 .

Web links

Works by and about Dominik Ertl in the catalog of the German National Library
Entry on Dominik Ertl in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
Dominik Ertl in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
Sheet music and audio files by Dominik Ertl in the International Music Score Library Project

Individual evidence

↑ See: Ludwig Eisenberg (Ed.): Das Geistige Wien. Lexicon of artists and writers. 1st Vol. Belletristic - Artistic Part. Communications about the architects, sculptors, stage artists, graphic artists, journalists, painters, musicians and writers living in Vienna. Vienna 1893, p. 107.

personal data
SURNAME	Ertl, Dominik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian composer and later Kapellmeister of the high and German masters
DATE OF BIRTH	April 12, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vienna
DATE OF DEATH	February 4, 1911
Place of death	Vienna

[1] See: Ludwig Eisenberg (Ed.): Das Geistige Wien. Lexicon of artists and writers. 1st Vol. Belletristic - Artistic Part. Communications about the architects, sculptors, stage artists, graphic artists, journalists, painters, musicians and writers living in Vienna. Vienna 1893, p. 107.