Friedrich Deisenroth

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Friedrich Deisenroth (born September 28, 1903 in Philippsthal (Werra) , † December 16, 1997 in Hennef ) was a German conductor , composer and music officer in the Bundeswehr . He had a decisive influence on the development of the Bundeswehr's military music in its early years and, together with Wilhelm Stephan, took part in the compilation of the German Army Marches collection for the Bundeswehr. His specifications for the orchestra and his arrangements of the German army marches form the organizational and repertoire framework of all German military music corps to this day.

biography

Reichswehr

Friedrich Deisenroth was born on September 28, 1903 in Philippsthal. Already in his childhood he showed musical talent, not least thanks to his father. In 1924 Deisenroth joined the music corps of the 2nd Battalion of the 15th Infantry Regiment , which was stationed in Eisenach . After serving as a military musician, in 1931 he was assigned to study at the State Academic University of Music in Berlin-Charlottenburg , where, among other things, he participated in the lecture evenings of the conducting class under the direction of Professor Hermann Schmidt . In three years Deisenroth graduated with distinction and was awarded the medal of the Prussian Academy of the Arts . In the same year Friedrich Deisenroth was appointed music master.

Wehrmacht

The young music master returned to his old regiment, where he took over the management of the music corps of the training battalion in Marburg . In 1936 Deisenroth moved to Siegen to take over the music corps of the newly established Infantry Regiment 57 , with which he also went to the Second World War . On January 1, 1940, Friedrich Deisenroth was appointed chief musician. After the campaign in the West , Deisenroth also gave concerts with his orchestra in occupied France. He later fought with his regiment in the southern section of the Eastern Front , for which he was awarded the Eastern Medal , among other things . Deisenroth was also the recipient of the War Merit Cross . In 1943 he was entrusted with the music corps of the Guard Battalion in Copenhagen in occupied Denmark , as staff music master, to which he was appointed on January 1, 1943 , where he and his orchestra also made radio recordings for Danish radio. Furthermore, works of symphonic brass music such as the Ukrainian Rhapsody came from his pen during this period . The next year Deisenroth was also deployed on the Eastern Front.

armed forces

After his release from captivity in July 1945, Deisenroth took over the management of a youth music school in Schleswig-Holstein . In 1946 he founded an orchestral school in Hilchenbach and the Siegerland-Wittgenstein Orchestra , which formed the core of today's Philharmonie Südwestfalen , and thereby turned to the preparation of the next generation of musicians.

On June 15, 1954, a year before the Bundeswehr was set up in practice, Deisenroth, then a civilian, submitted his memorandum to the Blank office on the development of the new German military music, which among the other suggestions of the former music masters played a not insignificant role in the lively discussion about the structure of the Bundeswehr music corps played. However, his conception turned out to be too progressive and too extensive and was only taken up in 1955 in the form of planning instructions, but not implemented. After the founding of the Bundeswehr, Friedrich Deisenroth was hired on May 1, 1956 in the rank of captain in the new West German armed forces. Deisenroth became head of the 23-member Music Corps IV B with the garrison in Idar-Oberstein , which later became Army Music Corps 5 in Koblenz . On May 15, 1957, he moved to the head of the Bundeswehr teaching music corps that was newly established in Rheinbach . The orchestra consisted of two music officers and 82 musicians, who were drawn together from all of the Bundeswehr music corps that existed at the time, and thus represented the largest music corps in the Bundeswehr. Already the prefix "teaching" spoke for the testing and exemplary function of the new troop body. The music corps got more senior sergeant positions in percentage terms , and Deisenroth became the first music corps leader of the Bundeswehr with the rank of major . One of the tasks of the ensemble was to provide musical accompaniment to the protocol services that the guard battalion at the Federal Ministry of Defense performed for senior state guests. Furthermore, the music corps appeared every year on January 5th at the birthday serenades for Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and also used historical military music ensembles at its performances. Since the name Lehrmusikkorps led to confusion with a school unit, the orchestra was renamed the Staff Music Corps of the Bundeswehr (today Music Corps of the Bundeswehr ) on June 15, 1959 , and the move to Siegburg in the Brückberg barracks took place in March. On the side, Deisenroth also performed a lively concert activity and recorded several records with his music corps with German and international (American, English and French) marches. In the meantime, Deisenroth designed a military music education facility and realized this by having a training train set up in his music corps on July 1, 1960, which developed into the Bundeswehr's training music corps in November 1960 .

From December 1, 1961, Friedrich Deisenroth, who in the meantime held the rank of lieutenant colonel , became deputy of the Bundeswehr Music Officer Wilhelm Stephan , and head of the Bundeswehr Music Department (Department I) in the Bundeswehr Office . Together with Stephan, he actively participated in the compilation of the new German army march collection, German army marches , for which the two music officers selected 145 pieces from the earlier Prussian army march collection and from the army march collection , practically the core of the German marches. Also in his capacity as deputy music inspector, Deisenroth also held the first course for young music officers in the Bundeswehr. Since the music officers had less opportunity than previous music masters before 1945 to work their way into military music while on duty, there was an urgent demand for score excerpts. Deisenroth's special achievement for German military music was the combination of the old infantry line-up with the sound types of the symphonic-wind music-oriented Luftwaffe music by Hans Felix Husadel . For this purpose, after his retirement he published particels and supplementary votes for the army marches, which he put together as Stephen's employee. Deisenroth added additional parts for a saxophone register , for alto and bass clarinets as well as for the musicians and provided the scores with numerous comments on the previously missing agogic signs, biographical information or the march tempo as well as recommendations for the performance practice of individual marches, especially the hunter and Cavalry marches. In addition, Stephan and Deisenroth started a discussion about the execution of the three posts in the Great Zapfenstreich , with Deisenroth insisting on an earlier trumpet style dating back to the Middle Ages . Wilhelm Stephan, on the other hand, believed the last score , published in 1896 by the army music inspector Gustav Roßberg , to be correct. In this dispute Deisenroth had to give way to the point of view of his superior. After Stephen's retirement, the new music inspector Fritz Masuhr nevertheless opted for the historical version proposed by Deisenroth.

On March 31, 1965, Friedrich Deisenroth retired and settled in Sankt Augustin , but did not give up his musical and organizational activities. He advised brass bands , supervised the minstrels' affairs and led the drum major courses for the Bundeswehr. Deisenroth later became a member of the presidium of the German Folk Music Association and in 1977 was also admitted to the board of the International Society for Research and Promotion of Brass Music . In addition, Deisenroth was a member of the German Society for Military Music e. V. Later he moved to Hennef . His musical legacy includes marches , fanfares , historical tone paintings , works and arrangements for marching bands, but also symphonic wind music such as concert waltzes , suites and rhapsodies . His last years were marked by gradually deteriorating eyesight.

Friedrich Deisenroth died on December 16, 1997 in Hennef . On November 16, 2018, the rehearsal room of the Bundeswehr Music Corps was given the honorary name Friedrich-Deisenroth-Saal .

Works (selection)

Works for wind orchestra

  • 1930 Train of the Knights (March)
  • 1935 Saarland Fanfare ( Fanfare March)
  • 1935 oath of loyalty (concert march)
  • 1936 Four bugle marches
  • 1937 German Spring (Romantic Impression)
  • 1938 The regiment arrives
  • 1939 Panzer fanfare , for military music with saxophone parts
  • 1943 Ukrainian Rhapsody
  • 1954 Meinerzhagener rifle march
  • 1965 Harmonized tattoo of the Royal Hanoverian Light Infantry
  • A la mi presente (Heraldic music about the mercenary song "We pulled into the field" for field trumpets, army drums and stirring drums)
  • Banchetto
  • The high day (suite)
  • Memory of Marburg (march for music corps with signal horns)
  • Heraldic music about the Landsknechtslied "Georg von Frundsberg"
  • Hessen Fanfare (fanfare march with the Hessen song )
  • Humoresque in variation on "The Carneval of Venice"
  • Maidle ruck (variation on a folk song)
  • Well goodbye, you little alley (variation on a folk song)
  • Signal Corps March (March for music corps with signal horns)

literature

  • Deisenroth, Friedrich . In: Fred K. Prieberg: Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 . PDF on CD-ROM. Kiel 2004, pp. 1019-1021.
  • Fritz Masuhr (arr.): The military music in the Bundeswehr. Military music history 1955–1975 . Bonn 1977.
  • Herbert Jüttner: Obituary for Friedrich Deisenroth . In: Mit klingendem Spiel 21 (2), 1998, pp. 74–75.

Web links

Audio samples

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Herbert Jüttner: Obituary for Friedrich Deisenroth . In: With sounding game 21 (2), 1998, p. 74.
  2. ↑ Deisenroth, Friedrich . In: Fred K. Prieberg: Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 . PDF on CD-ROM. Kiel 2004, p. 1019.
  3. ↑ a b c Herbert Jüttner: Obituary for Friedrich Deisenroth . In: With sounding game 21 (2), 1998, p. 75.
  4. ^ Fritz Masuhr (arr.): The military music in the Bundeswehr. Military music history 1955–1975 . Bonn 1977, p. 201 ff.
  5. ^ Fritz Masuhr (arr.): The military music in the Bundeswehr. Military music history 1955–1975 . Bonn 1977, p. 203.
  6. ^ Fritz Masuhr (arr.): The military music in the Bundeswehr. Military music history 1955–1975 . Bonn 1977, p. 707.
  7. ^ Fritz Masuhr (arr.): The military music in the Bundeswehr. Military music history 1955–1975 . Bonn 1977, p. 911.
  8. ^ Fritz Masuhr (arr.): The military music in the Bundeswehr. Military music history 1955–1975 . Bonn 1977, p. 1102 f.
  9. ^ Fritz Masuhr (arr.): The military music in the Bundeswehr. Military music history 1955–1975 . Bonn 1977, p. 1102.
personal data
SURNAME Deisenroth, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German conductor, composer, music officer in the Bundeswehr
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Philippsthal (Werra)
DATE OF DEATH December 16, 1997
Place of death Hennef