Buchberger siblings

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First record by the Buchberger siblings, 1931
Electrola record by the Buchberger siblings, ca.1936

The Buchberger siblings were a Tyrolean singing trio from around 1930 to 1961. The original trio included:

After Martin Buchberger fell in the last days of World War II , he was replaced by Victor Schandara from 1946, followed by Josef Glasner-Buchberger from 1953 until his last appearance in 1961.

Life

The Buchberger family lived in the town of Wörgl in the Tyrolean lowlands around 1900 . Father Georg Buchberger was a landowner and master baker, mother Maria Buchberger (née Erharter) was a housewife. The Buchberger couple had eight children. All children were given the opportunity to learn an instrument. Käthe Buchberger therefore began to play the zither at the age of eight .

Georg Buchberger died on April 25, 1917 in the First World War . In 1920 the widow and her eight children moved to Innsbruck at Innstrasse 55. Käthe Buchberger lived in this house until her death in 1998. Käthe Buchberger reported that she had inherited talent and voice from her mother. The siblings sang folk songs in the evenings with the windows open. Passers-by gathered in front of the Innsbruck house and listened to the singing. Martin Buchberger gave the impetus to sing in public. The voices of Martin, Anna and Käthe harmonized particularly well and so these three formed the vocal trio "Die Geschwister Buchberger".

Anna Buchberger played theater at the Höttinger Heimatbühne. The trio used the breaks from the theater for their first and already successful public appearances. The Buchberger siblings had their first vocal appearances outside Innsbruck in Upper Austria , as there was no interest in Tyrol. Later they were in demand everywhere and the concerts were very well attended. The Buchberger siblings had their probably most important concert in the sold-out large hall of the Vienna Konzerthaus . With the Wilten town band they went to Switzerland to perform.

They could only give concerts during their vacation, since all three were employed. Käthe Buchberger worked for 46 years in the embroidery department in Wattens , approx. 20 km east of Innsbruck, as a repasseur, which means that she checked the finished pieces and made small repairs if necessary. Martin Buchberger worked in the Landhaus zu Innsbruck and Anna Buchberger worked in a shop.

Martin Buchberger paid great attention to discipline during the concert tours. He forbade his sisters to accept invitations after concerts. He set a maximum of 80 groschen as the entry price so that poor people also had the opportunity to attend the concert. As a leitmotif, the three siblings on the guitar wore a stars and stripes with the inscription: "A heart that sings is closest to God." Audience requests were also fulfilled during the concerts. A very popular wish was the Echojodler "Mei Glück is a Hüttal".

At the end of the 1930s, the trio had reached the height of their artistic work and fame. The Buchberger siblings took a leading position among the folk musicians known at the time in terms of sound beauty, intimacy and joy of playing.

When Martin Buchberger moved in as a soldier in World War II , making music together ended. Martin Buchberger died in the last days of the war.

Around 1946 the two sisters began to perform again. The teacher Victor Schandara replaced the fallen brother. However, the new ensemble never came close to the former trio with Martin Buchberger. After Victor Schandara returned to his job in 1953, he was replaced by the state official and relative Josef "Pepi" Glasner-Buchberger. On February 22nd, 1961, the Buchberger siblings gave two sold-out farewell performances in Vienna, which were also broadcast on television.

Services

The original trio with Käthe, Martin and Anna Buchberger recorded just over 60 tracks.

  • They made 22 sound recordings in 1931 and 1932 with "Grammophon", recorded in the Innsbruck city hall. The first recording was called "My beautiful Innsbruck on the green Inn", accompanied by the Anton Stedry salon band. They accompanied themselves on all subsequent recordings.
  • 32 sound recordings for "His Masters Voice" Austria in 1935, divided into 2 sessions. The records appeared in Austria with the label HMV, in Germany under their own sales number and in some cases other side links by Electrola.
  • at least 18 sound recordings for "Electrola", (brand name of the HMV Group in Germany)

16 tracks were recorded in Berlin in the summer of 1939. The nomination for the best European recording studio of the HMV Group shows that the Buchberger siblings were very well known and had reached the peak of their artistic work. The probably last record was made in October 1942, also in Berlin.

  • around 30 other sound recordings from 1950 to 1953 at HMV Austria with Victor Schandara

Works

  • Home songs of the Buchberger Musikverlag Stanberg siblings , Vienna 1941.

known record titles:

  • My beautiful Innsbruck on the green Inn (Grammophon 1931; HMV approx. 1950)
  • D'Holzknechtbuam (gramophone 1931)
  • Land Tirol, you my home (Grammophon 1932)
  • Almenrausch and Edelweiss (HMV 1935)
  • How beautiful the Diandln are here in Tyrol (HMV 1935)
  • From the Glockner to the Ortler (HMV 1935)
  • Goodbye my beautiful South Tyrol (HMV 1935)
  • The most beautiful in the world (... up on the Schlern; HMV 1935)
  • Where the alpine roses bloom (HMV 1935)
  • S'Hoamatl (HMV 1935)
  • High from the Dachstein (HMV 1935)
  • We are the princes of this world (HMV 1935)
  • Song of the Bozen Mountaineers (HMV 1935)
  • The Kleeploatz (Electrola summer 1939; HMV approx. 1950)
  • Bayrisch Zell (Electrola summer 1939)

Web links

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  • Berthold Leimbach: Sound documents of German cabaret, self-published, Göttingen 1991.
  • Cover texts for the 3 CDs “The Buchberger Siblings, Your Songs Vol.1; Your Songs Vol.2; The early years ”; Author: Christian Ghera, actor.
  • Newspaper article in Innsbrucker Nachrichten from Saturday, February 12, 1994 on the 90th birthday of Käthe Buchberger; Author: Irene Heinsz, granddaughter of Martin Buchberger.