Franz Krinninger

Franz Salesius Krinninger ( February 5, 1844 in Neunkirchen - February 19, 1899 there ) was an Austrian composer and choirmaster . He acted as choirmaster of the Neunkirchen singing and orchestral association.

life and work

Franz Krinninger showed musical talent at an early age, but this was not encouraged by his parents. He attended secondary school in Wiener Neustadt and studied singing , violin and piano at the same time . He completed an apprenticeship in his father's grocery store and then commercial training in Vienna . In 1861 he became a member of the Neunkirchen singing and orchestra association. A longer trip took him to Germany and Italy. In 1865 he and his brother took over the father's business, but did not neglect his further musical training. Also in 1865 he took over the position of choir master in the Neunkirchner Gesang- und Orchesterverein for a few years.

From 1868 - as part of a second trip to Germany - he took private lessons in composition and instrumentation with the music teacher, composer and conductor Carl Reinecke in Leipzig for a few months . He composed a number of operas and singspiels, based on his own libretto, sacred and secular songs and ballads, piano pieces, a serenade, motets and male choirs. Some of his works were also performed in Vienna, for example the overture Die Zunftmeister von Nürnberg in the Musikverein and the singspiel Der Streit der Handwerker in 1917 in the Konzerthaus . He died at the age of 55.

His son Heinrich (1872–93) studied bassoon , horn , piano , organ and music theory at the Conservatory of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna. He was the theory student of Anton Bruckner and played in the Kuk Infantry Regiment Hoch- und Deutschmeister No. 4 under Carl Michael Ziehrer . He committed suicide.

His nephew Franz Krinninger (1882–1969) worked as a poet, his sister Sabine (1892–1972) was a painter.

Works

Operas based on their own libretti

• The Spaniard in the moon
• Konradin
• Klara Hebert (1878)
• Quintin Messys, the master of Antwerp (1885, premiered December 15, 1900 in Wiener Neustadt )
• The Swallows Homecoming , Singspiel for boys
• The craftsmen's quarrel
• Melodramas ( The pilgrimage to Kevelaer , The Queen of Arragon and others)

Other works

• Serenade for string orchestra
• Overture The Guild Masters of Nuremberg
• Music for Ferdinand Raimund's Der Verschwender
• Lieder (published in Leipzig, Vienna, Wiener Neustadt)
• Male choirs
• smaller church music
• Piano pieces

Honors

• A memorial plaque is attached to the house where he was born and died.
• A street in Neunkirchen bears his name.

swell

• Christian Fastl: Franz Krinninger. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-7001-3045-7 .
• P. Erhart: Lower Austrian Composers , 1998, Doblinger Wien, p. 71.

Web links

• Memory of the country , short biography of the composer