Guard music Vienna

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Guard and guard music at the 34th Austrian Brass Music Festival 2013 in Vienna

The Guard Music Vienna (also military music of the Guard Battalion Vienna ) is one of nine military bands in Austria. It is part of the guard battalion of the Austrian Armed Forces , stationed in the Maria-Theresien-Kaserne in the 13th Viennese district Hietzing and consists of 60 musicians. The commander of the guard music is also the military music chief of the armed forces.

history

The Guard Music Vienna performing for Otto von Habsburg (2011)

After the Austrian State Treaty came into force , on September 26, 1955, the provisional Border Guard Department 1 marched through the streets of Vienna, accompanied by a musical procession made up of musicians from the department. As a result, the border guard department was renamed the Army Guard Battalion , and from January 1956 the band of the Army Guard Battalion took over all representative tasks in Vienna from the Vienna Police Music . On May 15, 1957, the renaming of the Army Guard Battalion took place in Guard Battalion , the band of the Army Guard Battalion became the Gardemusik renamed.

Military bandmaster Friedrich Hodick compiled the Great Austrian Zapfenstreich in 1965 , and Anton Sollfellner was responsible for the final editing. Hodick also composed the presentation march that is played when walking along the front. A separate march was composed for each newly elected Federal President , for example the 2017 Dr. Van Der Bellen March and 2004 the Dr. Heinz Fischer March by Bernhard Heher or the Dr. Thomas Klestil March by Hans Damage contractor .

As of October 2014, the closure of five Austrian military bands was discussed for cost reasons. In December 2014, the government agreed to keep the nine locations while reducing the staff to 20 musicians per federal state. The Guard Music was the only Austrian military band that was not affected by the staff reduction. In May 2016, the Austrian decided Governor's Conference , together with Defense Minister Hans Peter Doskozil a halt to the army reform.

Drum ponies

Guard music Vienna with drum pony in front of the Federal Chancellery (1980)

The ponies that were used to pull the bass drum were among the peculiarities of the guard music , including the ponies named Donner and Blitz . From 1977 pony mother Rosa Zatschkowitsch looked after the ponies in the service of the armed forces in addition to basic military servants. In 2004 she was awarded the Golden Medal for Services to the Republic of Austria by Federal President Thomas Klestil , and she was also awarded the Bronze Medal of Merit by the Austrian Brass Music Association . The former journalist and photographer, who died in 2012 at the age of 92, was bid farewell with military honors. During the Guard Music's summer vacation, the ponies were stationed in Hochfilzen in Tyrol. The last ponies, Sergeant Amadeus and Corporal Mozart , were retired in 2015 and no longer filled.

activities

Ensemble of the Guard Music at the charity ball dancer against cancer in the Vienna Hofburg (2010)

One of the main tasks is the musical accompaniment of state receptions , accreditations of ambassadors and other so-called honors, for example conducts . In addition, the Guard Music produced over twenty recordings, in addition to military marches, including recordings of works by Johann Strauss , Carl Michael Ziehrer and Joseph Lanner .

The annual performances include the Federal President's New Year's reception for the diplomatic corps, the spring concert of the symphonic wind orchestra and, since 1978, the arcade courtyard concert in the arcade courtyard of the Vienna City Hall . During the Vienna ball season , various balls in the Vienna Hofburg , such as the officers' ball, are musically framed by the ball orchestra or the big band of the Guard Music . The Guard Music's autumn concert took place in the Golden Hall of the Wiener Musikverein until 2001, but has not taken place since then due to the shortening of the military service and the reduction in the number of strings. During the Christmas season, the program includes performances with light in the dark or the illumination of the Christmas tree in front of the Vienna City Hall. The Guard Music was repeatedly present at international military music meetings abroad.

In February 2019, the Guard Music played as part of the Vienna Opera Ball when the guests were received on the red carpet.

The Guard Music also conducts a 12 to 15 week course for non-commissioned officers of all nine Austrian military music bands every year.

Kapellmeister

1. Kapellmeister

Military bandmaster Bernhard Heher and Guard Commander Stefan Kirchebner hand over the score of the "Barbara Prammer March" to the President of the National Council, Barbara Prammer (2014).

2. Kapellmeister

  • 1963 to 1965: Franz Josef Kohsich
  • 1965 to 1968: Anton Sollfellner
  • 1968: Rudolf Bodingbauer
  • 1969 to 1971: Rudolf Bara
  • 1990 to 1995: Hannes Lackner
  • 1997 to 2002: Bernhard Heher
  • since 2005: Johann Kausz

Music master

  • 1956 to 1960: Josef Hahn
  • 1960 to 1974: Johann Bauerstätter
  • 1975 to 1980: Josef Hain
  • 1980 to 1993: Hermann Auer
  • 1993 to 2011: Josef Höller
  • since 2011: Gerald Springer

See also

Web links

Commons : Gardemusik Wien  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Guard Music Vienna . Retrieved May 11, 2016.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h Armed Forces - Troop Service - Volume 309, Issue 3/2009: The Guard Music . Retrieved May 11, 2016.
  3. ↑ Carnival concert of the Guard Music Vienna . City hall correspondence of January 30, 2002, accessed on May 11, 2016.
  4. ↑ derStandard.at - Minister Klug saves 13 barracks - future of the Eurofighters open . Article dated October 4, 2014, accessed March 31, 2015
  5. ↑ derStandard.at - Federal Army: Government announces agreement . Article dated December 23, 2014, accessed March 31, 2015
  6. ↑ Military music greatly reduced to Ö1 from April 1, 2015, accessed on April 5, 2015.
  7. ↑ derStandard.at - Bundesheer: Military music and barracks remain . Article dated May 11, 2016, accessed May 11, 2016.
  8. ↑ derStandard.at - "Pony mother" of the army . Article dated March 27, 2007, accessed May 12, 2016.
  9. ↑ orf.at - Guard said goodbye to "pony mother" . Article dated April 25, 2012, accessed May 11, 2016.
  10. ↑ Drum ponies of the guard enjoy "music boarding" . Article dated May 22, 2015, accessed May 11, 2016.
  11. ↑ A life for the GARDE “The Pony Mother” . Article dated March 21, 2007, accessed May 12, 2016.
  12. ↑ Kleine Zeitung: Smaller military music "will also work" . Article dated May 19, 2015, accessed May 12, 2016.
  13. ↑ diepresse.com: Guard music blows the opera ball march for the first time . Article dated February 15, 2019, accessed February 16, 2019.
  14. ↑ derStandard.at: Guard music blows opera ball guests the march for the first time . Article dated February 15, 2019, accessed February 16, 2019.
  15. ↑ Gustav Gaigg in regiowiki.at
  16. ↑ Anton Othmar Sollfelner in regiowiki.at
  17. ^ Rudolf Bodingbauer in regiowiki.at
  18. ↑ Hannes Lackner in regiowiki.at
  19. ↑ a b Arkadenhofkonzert 2011 - retired music master adopted . Article dated July 22, 2011, accessed May 11, 2016.