Ferdinand Neumaier (composer)

Ferdinand Neumaier (born September 8, 1890 in Kirchberg, today Kirchberg im Wald , † March 24, 1969 in Landshut ) was a German composer and songwriter .

The son of a master blacksmith attended the teacher training college in Straubing . He began his professional career as an assistant teacher in Neuschönau , later stations were Regenhütte , Zwiesel , Abensberg and from 1913 Landshut, where he was rector of the St. Martin boys' school until 1956.

He began collecting and writing down folk songs at an early age. He collected especially the songs from the Bavarian Forest , but also from the rest of old Bavaria , and put them together in song books. Often he only found fragments of melodies and texts, which he supplemented with his own tunes and words.

He composed about 90 songs, for which he often wrote the text. The best known was Mir san vom Woid dahoam , created in 1938 . His Waidlermesse with a text by Eugen Hubrich premiered on September 14, 1952 in Landshut. His circle of friends included Paul Friedl , Annette Thoma , Max Peinkofer , Kiem Pauli and Max Matheis , of whom he set the poem Und iatz is halt Winter worn to music .

In 1966 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon, other honors were the Gotteszeller People's Prize, the Citizens' Medal of the City of Landshut and the Zwieseler Fink in gold. Neumaier was an honorary citizen of the Kirchberg community and an honorary member of the Bavarian Forest Association . On the occasion of his 95th birthday, a bronze plaque was unveiled on September 8, 1985 at the house where he was born in Kirchberg.

literature

• Ferdinand Neumaier: Sing mar a weng !. Song book for the Lower Bavarian youth , Morsak 1981, ISBN 3875531574
• Ferdinand Neumaier: I'm at home from the forest! The songs of Ferdinand Neumaier , Morsak 1983, ISBN 978-3-87553-195-4
• Hubert Riedel: Unforgettable Ferdinand Neumaier. 20 years ago, on March 24, 1969, he died in Landshut , in: Der Bayerwald 81 (1989), Heft 2, pp. 35–37

Web links

• History of the Waldlermesse
• More about the Waldlermesse with audio samples from the singers from Schwanstetten