Franz Rosenberger (composer)

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Franz Rosenberger (* 1895 in Steierdorf , Kingdom of Hungary , Austria-Hungary , † February 7, 1967 in Lugoj , Socialist Republic of Romania ) was a Romanian-German military musician and composer .

Life

Franz Rosenberger trained as an electrician and worked in the Orawitz mill . In addition, he played the French horn in the fire brigade band and learned to play the violin and viola. During the First World War he fought as a soldier in the Austro-Hungarian army in Albania and Italy. After the war he was accepted into the Romanian army with the rank of sergeant and assigned to the band of the 96th Infantry Regiment in Orschowa . Later he played in the garrison band in Orawitz.

After this was destroyed by fire in 1932, Rosenberger went to Lugoj and became a French horn player in the band of the 17th Infantry Regiment. After an accident that he was accused of, he was demoted in 1942 and discharged from the army. He then worked as an organist at the Protestant and Catholic Church in Lugoj and was appointed director of an apprenticeship home in 1943.

After the Second World War Rosenberger came to the concentration camp of Caracal , from which he was released in November 1945th He then earned his living as a sheet music copyist, violin teacher and representative of a death society. During this time, some church music works were created. His songs for the Feast of Corpus Christi were premiered in 1961 in the Millennium Church in the Fabric district of the western Romanian city of Timișoara .

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