Mountain music corps of the Bundeswehr

Mountain Music Corps of the Bundeswehr - GebMusKorpsBw -
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Lineup	1956
Country	Germany
Armed forces	armed forces
Organizational area	Force Base
Branch of service	Military music service
Strength	~ 60
Insinuation	Military Music Center of the Bundeswehr
Location	Garmisch-Partenkirchen

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The mountain music corps of the Bundeswehr at the airfield concert 2014 at the Kaufbeuren air base

The Mountain Music Corps of the Bundeswehr (GebMusKorpsBw), until September 30, 2013 Mountain Music Corps Garmisch-Partenkirchen (GebMusKorps) was set up as the music corps of the 1st Mountain Division in 1956 in Sonthofen . After being stationed in Munich and Mittenwald in the meantime , it finally found its home in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in 1963 . As part of the realignment of the Bundeswehr, the Mountain Music Corps was subordinated to the Armed Forces Office and is therefore part of the armed forces base .

repertoire

The repertoire of up to 60 soldiers is just as varied as the musical line-ups with which they perform. The music corps can appear as a classical wood and brass ensemble or in dance music ensembles such as the jazz combo or the big band . Folkloric sounds can be heard from the Oberkrainer and the wind instrumentation. The "Alphorn group", the "Hüttn-Musi" and the "Stubn Musi" provide typical alpine music.

Wind band

The core of the traditional association is the large symphonic wind orchestra . The concerts are an integral part of the cultural calendar in numerous cities and regions; many millions of euros were raised in the past for charitable purposes.

In addition to the approx. 160 missions per year, which mainly take place in the Bavarian region, tours and invitations to international military music festivals abroad are part of the spectrum of missions. Canada, USA, Finland, Switzerland and Great Britain are representative of many assignments in the international area. With operations in Kabul , Afghanistan and Termez , Uzbekistan, the Mountain Music Corps was entrusted with the care of German soldiers in the operational area in previously unique missions in 2002 and 2003.

Significant appearances

The best-known performances of the Mountain Music Corps include the musical participation in the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich and participation in one of the most important military music shows in the world in 1989 and 1998 in Halifax , Canada. The mountain musicians played in front of more than 20,000 listeners on the occasion of the International Soldiers' Pilgrimage in Lourdes / France in 1994 and 2007, at the NATO music festivals in 1995 and 2002 and in 1996 at the International Tattoo in Hamina / Finland. Further trips abroad took the military musicians to Krakow in Poland, to Avenches and Basel in Switzerland and, as a German congratulatory contribution to Hungary's accession to the EU in 2004, to Budapest. The Mountain Music Corps has also been a permanent guest at the Innsbruck Promenade Concerts in the Imperial Hofburg since 2003 . Further concerts and performances were:

In the year 2007:

• a concert tour to Montpellier / France

In the year 2008:

• an appearance at the Norsk Militær Tattoo in Oslo / Norway
• and a performance in Veliko Tarnovo / Bulgaria

In the year 2009:

• The Netherland Military Tattoo in Rotterdam / Netherlands

In 2011:

• Virginia Art Festival - Tattoo
• Edinburgh Military Tattoo

The music corps regularly takes part in the International Military Music Festival in Bavaria, which has been held every two years at the Olympic Ice Sports Center in Garmisch-Partenkirchen since 1996. Together with the municipality of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, the music corps is the main organizer of the renowned festival. In an impressive choreography, around 500 military musicians from various nations regularly present their performances and put themselves together in the service of a good cause.

Conductors

So far, nine conductors have directed the Mountain Music Corps.

1. Captain Adalbert Muhs from April 5, 1956 (Dismissed from the Bundeswehr in June 1957 on charges of alleged war crimes in the Vyazma area in April 1942)
2. Lieutenant Colonel Werner Zimmermann from November 1, 1956
3. Lieutenant Colonel Heinz Dieter Paul from April 1, 1978
4. Captain Christoph Lieder from April 1, 1987
5. Lieutenant Colonel Michael Euler from December 1, 1992
6. Lieutenant Colonel Christoph Scheibling from October 1, 2001
7. Lieutenant Colonel Martin Kötter from April 1, 2007
8. Lt. Col. Christian Prchal from March 26, 2010
9. Lieutenant Colonel Karl Kriner since May 20, 2014

Well-known musicians

• Ernst Hoffmann : Solo trombonist
• Alexander Pfluger : baritone player
• Berthold Schick : trombonist
• Elmar Walter : tuba player

Web links

Commons : Mountain Music Corps  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Internet presence of the Mountain Music Corps

Individual evidence

1. ↑ augsburger-allgemeine.de
2. ↑ vafest.org ( Memento of the original from May 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ edintattoo.co.uk ( Memento of the original dated August 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ^ The history of the Mountain Music Corps on the official website of the German Federal Armed Forces. The reference to Captain Muhs is missing.
5. ^ Andreas Eichmüller: No general amnesty: The prosecution of Nazi crimes in the early Federal Republic . Oldenbourg, Munich 2012, p. 330, fn. 197.

Coordinates: 47 ° 29 '7.8 "  N , 11 ° 3' 38.9"  E