Ernst Mosch
Ernst Mosch (born November 7, 1925 in Zwodau , Czechoslovakia ; † May 15, 1999 in Germaringen ) was a German musician , composer , arranger and conductor . He was the founder and musical director of the Original Egerländer Musikanten .
Live and act
The early years
Ernst Mosch was the first child of the miner Andreas Mosch (1901–1967) and Albine Mosch (1907–1985). His mother was employed in a worsted spinning mill. His father became a disabled person after a mine accident in 1932 and after the family moved to Falkenau he ran a milk shop, with Ernst taking over the delivery of the goods.
At the age of eight, Ernst Mosch played the flute in the school orchestra and a little later the flugelhorn in the well-known youth orchestra of Hans Dotzauer . He broke off the shoemaker's apprenticeship that his parents wanted after primary school and then worked in an aircraft factory in Eger ; first as a mechanic and then in the painting department. In 1940 he decided to pursue a musical career and, after having passed the audition, received lessons in the flugelhorn, violin and trombone instruments at the municipal music school in Oelsnitz / Vogtland .
After he was drafted into military service in 1943, he came to Allenstein as a tank grenadier and played shortly afterwards at the instigation of his company commander as a trombonist in the military corps . At the end of 1944 he was wounded while serving as a soldier in Breslau , he was hit in the forearm and since then has suffered from a drooping thumb, which was later regarded as the “trademark” of his conducting technique.
As a result of the expulsion of the Sudeten Germans after the end of the war, Mosch fled to Bavaria in 1945 , where he performed as a jazz musician in American clubs. In 1946 he played the trombone in the band of Peter Hiller and tenor horn in the original orchestra Egerland under the direction of Rudi Kugler. Shortly afterwards he founded the REMO band together with Fred Bertelmann and Horst Reipsch , which initially performed for GIs in Landsberg / Lech and became known in American jazz and music circles. In 1948 Mosch moved to the Charly Zech dance orchestra in Hamburg and in 1950 to Munich to the band of Alois Schnurrer. There he played the trombone and also worked as a singer.
1951 Mosch first trombonist in Südfunk Dance Orchestra of Erwin Lehn , the regular events for the South German Radio designed and Europe concerted.
The original Egerland musicians
The Südfunk-Orchester played at the Federal Press Ball in Bad Neuenahr in 1955 , with the musicians taking turns in various formations. Mosch, who is currently deputy orchestra leader, led a brass band with whom he performed Bohemian music. After this performance was successful, he organized his own ensemble with a permanent brass band. In 1956 the 12 musicians recorded five tracks on Südfunk Stuttgart , which were broadcast on the radio. The ensemble was named Die Egerländer Musikanten , as most of the musicians came from Bohemia . In December 1956, Mosch signed a contract with the record company Telefunken for further recordings. The line-up was expanded to 18 musicians. Mosch, who had previously played the tenor horn himself, now set his priorities on conducting and singing.
Due to numerous imitators, the orchestra was renamed Original Egerländer Musikanten in 1958 . The ensemble performed almost every weekend; Mosch was still engaged with some of his musicians at the Südfunk-Tanzorchester and left it in 1966. Mosch was the first German orchestra to perform with the Original Egerländer Musikanten on May 21, 1966 in New York's Carnegie Hall , where the audience received “standing ovations ” . In the same year he went on a US tour.
After an Egerland pilot production from 1971 ("Sunday concert"), Mosch realized a successful experiment with his ensemble in 1972: Gerald Weinkopf arranged operettas by Robert Stolz , Walter Kollo , Paul Lincke and Franz Lehár in a modern Glenn Miller movement (saxophone and clarinet tour) recorded on phonograms. Another production followed in 1982/83 with melodies by Nico Dostal and Ralph Benatzky . In many melodies, the arrangements were also characterized by a three-part trombone set that was played by musicians such as Bobby Burgess , Erwin Wolf and later Enrique Crespo, Jiggs Whigham , Bart van Lier or Otto Bredl .
On April 28, 1973, Mosch received his first platinum record for more than 10 million records sold at a concert at Circus Krone in Munich. This was followed by a tour with 110 concerts and 70 festival tent appearances with a total of 430,000 visitors.
In 1974, together with Frank Pleyer , Mosch started the original street musicians in the style of smaller brass ensembles from his old homeland. With this ensemble he made some television appearances, but no live concerts. Together with Pleyer he wrote many successful concertante compositions from 1973 to 1979, also for the regular Egerländer line-up.
After a major tour in 1976, Mosch took a break in 1977 to prevent overuse of his musicians. He settled in Germaringen . Studio recordings were made in Prague in 1977/78, and in 1978 Mosch produced an album with an expanded line-up with concert marches from the Kuk period . In 1979 he founded his music publishing company with Elmar Wolf , which is still based in Germaringen to this day.
In 1981 the original Egerland musicians made their comeback . On the occasion of its 25th anniversary, ZDF broadcast a special program in September 1981 under the title “Heart, pain and this and that…”. In May 1981, Mosch traveled to Czechoslovakia for another ZDF special . There he visited his hometown Falkenau (Sokolov) and met the Bohemian composers Jaromir Vejvoda , Karel Vacek and Karel Valdauf in the “U Fleků” brewery in Prague. The record "The Greatest Successes", released for the anniversary, stayed at number 1 in the German album charts for five weeks .
In 1981, Mosch was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon by Walter Scheel for his services to folk music . In the same year he received the Hermann Löns Medal in gold.
In memory of his time with Erwin Lehn, Mosch formed a big band from members of the Original Egerländer in 1986 . At the same time, 30 concerts were held in Germany and the Netherlands for the 30th anniversary . In 1988 he started a production of 16 polkas and waltzes with the winds of the Prague Philharmonic and the Prague State Theater as well as his four first flugelhornists. In 1990, a recording with the Leipzig Radio Wind Orchestra and the Egerländer flugelhorn and tenor horn set followed.
During the tour for the 35th anniversary in 1991, Mosch played for the first time in the New Lands . In the same year the ZDF dedicated a special program to him with the title “My biggest festival of brass music”.
Last years and death
In 1995, Mosch and his ensemble traveled to Frankenmuth (USA) for the program " Funny Musicians" . After returning, he fell ill, so that the planned autumn tour had to be postponed to spring 1996. It included 30 concerts in Germany, Austria and South Tyrol . The orchestra playing on this tour was numerically the strongest line-up of the ensemble that has ever performed live. Despite his poor health, Mosch completed his farewell tour across Germany with the Original Egerland Musicians from March 6th to April 27th, 1998.
Ernst Mosch died on May 15, 1999 in his home in Germaringen of complications from diabetes . He was buried in the cemetery Kirchhof St. Georg zu Untergermaringen / Ostallgäu . He had played over 1,000 concerts in 42 countries, completed numerous tours and television appearances, sold more than 40 million records and received a total of 29 gold, platinum and diamond records .
Private
Mosch had been married to his wife Lydia from Herne since 1945 ; the couple had daughters Karin, Ellen and Brigitte.
Orchestra line-up and repertoire
The line-up of the instrumental ensemble included flute , Eb clarinet , Bb clarinet , flugelhorn , trumpet , tenor horn , baritone , French horn , trombone , bass trombone, tuba and drums in various compositions. Occasionally, instruments such as the accordion , baritone saxophone , bass trumpets , celesta , bells , hammers , spoons and triangles were used . The cast of the ensemble included musicians such as Franz Bummerl , Berthold Schick , Helmut Kassner , Ferenc Aszódy , Johann Kaszner , Walter Tuschla , Toni Scholl , Gerd Husemann , Klaus Graf , Elmar Wolf and Ernst Hutter . In 1971 Barbara Rosen joined as a singer, who mostly sang in a duet with Mosch. After her death in 1986, Helga Reichel took over this role. Gerald Weinkopf was the copywriter and arranger for many years .
Mosch played the compositions of numerous Czech composers and thus promoted their national fame. The repertoire consisted mainly of bohemian light music, around 60% polkas, around 35% waltzes and around 5% marches. The length of the title is usually 2 to 3.5 minutes. By far the most time-consuming piece is the Polka-Rondo “Solistenparade” from 1990 with over 11 minutes, which was only produced as a rehearsal with a smaller cast, not on an album. The Ernst Mosch World Successes music collection with over 350 pieces publishes the Egerland repertoire for brass bands.
The lyrics of the song titles mostly dealt with the areas of home, happiness in love or the Egerland music itself. Mosch worked with several text authors, in the early years exclusively with Gerald Weinkopf and, more rarely, with Walter Völk and Jules Verard. Other authors were subsequently Franz Josef Ulmer, Kurt Hertha , Walter Leissle, Franto Linharek, Fini Huber-Busch, Robert Jung , Henry Pytelka-van den Berghe, Gisela Zimber and Jürgen Rust. From 1986 almost all texts were written by Mosch and Helga Reichel.
Mosch was a pioneer in the professional interpretation of demanding Bohemian compositions and symphonic polkas, namely by Jaroslav Skabrada. These bravura / concert titles can be seen as bordering on serious music (serious music ). They are characterized by a particularly demanding melody / voice guidance (e.g. Helenen Polka) and a harmony spectrum that by far exceeds the regular cadence scheme (e.g. Trio Recruits March).
Discography (selection)
There are around 400 different recordings by Ernst Mosch, including around 220 LPs, around half of which are special editions or export versions, 100 singles, 6 shellac records and numerous CDs.
Albums
- 1960: Gold record for the Egerlanders
- 1961: Happy Egerland
- 1961: Sounding Egerland
- 1961: The home in the heart (Falkenauer brass music + Egerländer Schrammeln)
- 1961: Egerland-Heimatland (due to an editorial mistake the title of the same name was not included on this LP!)
- 1961: That goes into the mind
- 1962: Sang und Klang vom Egerland (reissued in 1970 as "Hand in Hand through Egerland")
- 1963: Golden Egerland melodies
- 1964: Say hello to my homeland
- 1965: Goldner Klang from Egerland
- 1966: Music from home
- 1967: this is music!
- 1967/1968: Spring in the Egerland
- 1968: favorite melodies
- 1969: brass music sounds like this!
- 1969/1970: Especially for you
- 1970: hours that you will never forget
- 1970/1971: I'm so looking forward to seeing you again - 15 years of playing and singing
- 1971: Sunday concert (partly with new recordings of previously produced titles)
- 1972: Portrait in Gold (partly with previously recorded titles)
- 1973: Sounds of the Moldau
- 1973: Sunday 1.10 p.m. (partly with previously recorded tracks)
- 1974: Bohemian specialties
- 1974: How Bohemia was still with Austria
- 1975: Forever young brass music
- 1975: don't forget your homeland!
- 1975/1976: Bohemian heart
- 1977: Musician's dream
- 1978: Tschingsda and Bumsda
- 1979: Egerländer Sparrows
- 1980: love and music
- 1981: Anniversary greetings (partly with new recordings of previously produced titles)
- 1982: Egerland hit parade (partly with previously recorded titles)
- 1983: songs that sound to us
- 1984: my beautiful homeland
- 1985: Only those who love their homeland (partly with new recordings of previously produced titles)
- 1986: 30 years of Ernst Mosch
- 1988 :. Ernst Mosch in Prague
- 1989: Say it with music
- 1989: Egerland soloist parade
- 1990: Ernst Mosch in Leipzig (mainly new recordings of previously produced titles)
- 1990: At home in the Egerland
- 1990/1991: We invite you to the festival tent
- 1991: My biggest festival of folk music - 35 years (partly with new recordings of previously produced titles)
- 1992: my dream orchestra
- 1993: Music for Millions
- 1995: young at heart - 40 years
- 1997: A life for brass music (partly with new recordings of previously produced titles)
- 1998: Bohemian delicacies (mainly new recordings of previously produced titles)
Special albums
In addition to the Bohemian productions and the 10 albums of his original street musicians , Mosch repeatedly produced special titles and albums.
- 1958–1960: The Falkenauer Jagerbuam and the Falkenauer Blasmusik
- 1961: with zither and accordion Die Zittner Schrammeln / village musicians
- 1961: the Egerländer Schrammeln, with strings and harp, the Posthörndl duo Ernszt / Bummerl
- 1963: Folksong country party
- 1964: The hit drum
- 1965: 1st march production We stay young, mostly opera marches
- 1969: Dance music production "This is how we are"
- 1969: Christmas LP
- 1970: 2nd march production We Stay Young No. 2
- 1971: Wiener Lieder (Vienna and Wine)
- 1971: Dutch songs (Daar bij die Molen)
- 1972/1973: operetta melodies (see there)
- 1973: folk songs
- 1978: 3rd march production
- 1982/1983: operetta melodies (see there)
- 1986: Swing (Memory)
- 1987: 4th march production
- 1988: 2nd Christmas production
- 1990: Parade of soloists
- 1992: mood songs
- 1994: Polka Swing Parade
Chart placements
Albums
| year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | ||
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 AT
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 CH
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| 1964 | Sang and sound from Egerland |
DE46 (8 weeks) DE |
- | - |
with Franz Bummerl
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| 1965 | Golden sound of Egerland |
DE7 (44 weeks) DE |
- | - |
with Franz Bummerl and little Biggi
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| 1966 | We are the Egerland musicians |
DE27 (2 weeks) DE |
- | - | |
| 1967 | We'll see you again |
DE14 (6 weeks) DE |
- | - |
Live album
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| Music from home |
DE19 (2 weeks) DE |
- | - | ||
| 1968 | Spring in the Egerland |
DE34 (4 weeks) DE |
- | - | |
| 1969 | So are we! |
DE33 (4 weeks) DE |
- | - | |
| 1978 | The 20 greatest successes |
DE5 (7 weeks) DE |
- | - | |
| 24 golden melodies |
DE20 (8 weeks) DE |
- | - | ||
| 1981 | The biggest successes |
DE1 (16 weeks) DE |
AT19 (2 weeks) AT |
- | |
| 2016 | The great life's work |
DE21 (2 weeks) DE |
- |
CH74 (1 week) CH |
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| 2018 | The big gold edition |
DE75 (2 weeks) DE |
- | - | |
gray hatching : no chart data available for this year
Singles
| year | Title album |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks |
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DE
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| 1961 | Heartache |
DE49 (4 weeks) DE |
with Franz Bummerl
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| 1962 | Rustling birches |
DE32 (16 weeks) DE |
Awards for music sales
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| Country / Region |
 gold |
 platinum
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Sales | swell |
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| Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources) |
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Germany (BVMI)
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4 × gold4th
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2 × platinum2
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2,000,000 | musikindustrie.de |
| All in all |
4 × gold4th
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2 × platinum2
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Compositions (selection)
- Bohemian Wind, Waltz, 1967
- The Straw Widower, Polka (Andante), 1969
- It was just a romance, Waltz, 1982
- Red-White-Red, March, 1976
- Good Neighbors, Marsh Polka, 1974
- Recruits, March, 1978
- Stay with me, March Polka, 1982
- Hours of Love, 1976
- Mountain flowers, Polka, 1972
- A song from home, waltz 1964
- Bullfinch, Polka 1967
- Soloists' Parade, Polka-Rondo, 1990
- Egerland musicians march, 1961
- Saaz hops, Polka, 1972
- See you soon, Polka 1965
- We are children from Eger, Polka 1964
- Stars of Homeland, Polka 1967
- You, only you - Polka 1964
- Moonlight on the Eger, Waltz 1956
- The music that goes into our blood, March Polka 1966
- Pay me something, I'll pay you something too, Polka 1964
- Hours of Love, Waltz, 1976
- Eva-Marie, Waltz 1972
Awards
- 1981: Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (Cross of Merit on ribbon) for services to folk music
- 1981: Hermann Löns medal in gold
- 1995: Golden microphone
legacy
After Mosch's death, daughters Brigitte and Ellen Mosch took over the management of his music publisher.
The Egerlanders initially performed without a conductor. The tenor horn player Ernst Hutter then took over the management of the now Egerland musicians . In 1985, Mosch had hired him for his orchestra. The orchestra is now called Ernst Hutter & Die Egerländer Musikanten . With the line-up of 16 musicians, Hutter returned to the initial formation of Mosch.
Mosch was always barred from making music with the Egerland musicians in his homeland, the Egerland. It was not until 2010 that the orchestra gave its first concert under Hutter's direction in Eger .
literature
- Georg Ried ; Elmar Wolf : Ernst Mosch. My life, the music. Ewoton International, Queidersbach 1999, ISBN 3-9806971-0-X
- Karl Graf zu Castell-Rüdenhausen :. ..and the brass music swings forever. Ernst Mosch and his musical heirs. Verlag JH Röll, Dettelbach am Main 2014, ISBN ISBN 978-3-89754-446-8
See also
Web links
- Works by and about Ernst Mosch in the catalog of the German National Library
- Ernst Mosch at Discogs (English)
- Ernst Mosch in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Ernst Mosch in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
- Ernst Mosch in the Munzinger archive
- Biography in the Egerland brass music archive
- Biography at Montana.de
- Website Mosch Musikverlag
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Thomas Hümpfner: Portrait Ernst Mosch. In: ... and the brass music swings forever. Ernst Mosch and his musical heirs. Karl Graf zu Castell-Rüdenhausen, accessed on August 3, 2020 .
- ↑ a b In the heart of the Egerland. In: Mosch Musikverlag. Retrieved August 3, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c d Ernst Mosch - Munzinger biography. Retrieved August 3, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c d Holger Mück says: "He made brass music world-famous". In: Prague Newspaper. Retrieved August 3, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c d e legend Ernst Mosch - Česká Dechovka / Bohemian brass music - Evropský portál / European portal. Retrieved August 3, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Ernst Mosch. In: Egerland Wind Music Archive. Retrieved August 3, 2020 .
- ^ Wetzlarer Neue Zeitung, 1946: Chapel Egerland. In: gmehl.musiklegende.de. Retrieved August 3, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c d e Bohemian-Moravian brass music with the Montana brass band. Retrieved August 3, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c d RZ-Online (News): Folk musician Ernst Mosch died. Retrieved August 3, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c Music & Events | SWR4 Baden-Württemberg | SWR.de. Retrieved August 3, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Birgit Goormann-Prugger: The legacy of Ernst Mosch. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. June 28, 2019, accessed August 3, 2020 .
- ↑ a b short biography on mosch-musikverlag.de
- ^ Folk musician Ernst Mosch died ; Rhein-Zeitung of May 17, 1999
- ↑ a b Thomas Wurm: The Karajan of brass music - Ernst Mosch. Retrieved August 3, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Chart sources: DE AT CH
- ↑ Lons-Verband.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mosch, Ernst |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Zittner, Wenzel (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German musician, composer, arranger and conductor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 7, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zwodau , Czechoslovakia |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 15, 1999 |
| Place of death | Germaringen |