Gregorius (folk singer)

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Gregorius called himself a Saxon folk singer whose humorous lectures in the 1910s were recorded at the Polyphon in Wahren near Leipzig and on the Famosa Glockophona brand of the Glocke-Musikwerke Leipzig; he appears in connection with the folk singing troupe The cozy Saxons and the Leipzig Krystallpalast singers and seems to have been an independent artist. Possibly he was a member of one of the two associations, or even of both. Perhaps "Gregorius" was just a pseudonym of a regular member of a singing society, adopted especially for the record.

“Gregorius” performed his own texts, but also those by folk singer colleagues such as Reinhold Fischer, Martin Mühlau and Carl Vallenda. Fischer and Mühlau were members of the Leipzig Krystallpalast Singers.

Works

From "Gregorius" only two of his own texts are known:

  • instruction
  • Julius, the musician

Audio documents

As a writer

  • Instruction (Gregorius). Performer (s): The cozy Saxons. Polyphon Record 12 456/23 205 (Matr. 8131 a)

As an interpreter

  • Meine Rieke - Couplet by R. Fischer. Gregorius, with piano accompaniment and trumpets. Polyphon Record 12 476/23 166 (Matr. 7292)
  • Julius, the musician (Gregorius) Gregorius, with piano accompaniment and trumpet. Polyphon Record 12 476/23 167 (Matr. 7293)
  • Musikus asparagus (Martin Mühlau). Artist: Gregorius. Polyphon Record 12 477/23 168 (Mat. 7294)
  • Occasional musician Krumpel (Vallenda). Artist: Gregorius. Polyphon Record 12 477/23 169 (Mat. 7295)

also on Famosa Glockophona :

  • Musikus asparagus: humorous lecture / Gregorius. Famosa Glockophona No. G 23 286/23 168 (die number 7294)
  • Occasional musician Krumpel: humorous lecture / Gregorius. Famosa Glockophona No. G 23 287/23 169 (die number 7295)

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ on this company cf. Site of the Society for Self-Playing Musical Instruments eV / Museum for Musical Instruments of the University of Leipzig : “Famosa Glockophona” records were a product of the Glocke Musikwerke Leipzig, Keilstrasse No. 6, a company that mainly traded in musical instruments and gramophones. It was founded in 1908 by Richard Selle as "Musikhaus Glocke Richard Selle" and in 1910 renamed "Glocke Musikwerke Richard Selle". The letters "GML" under the motto "The good breaks train" on the label stand for G Locke M usikwerke L eipzig. Selle also had records pressed in his name and used a. a. Recordings / matrices of the Polyphonwerke (Leipzig). It was in operation until 1932.
  2. ↑ in Berthold Leimbach: Sound documents of the cabaret and their interpreters 1898–1945. Self-published, Göttingen 1991, “Gregorius” is not listed, it also appears in: Richard John, Richard Torley: The German humorous gentlemen's singing societies in words and pictures. Private print Leipzig, 1940, not before.
  3. ↑ also Wallenda, cf. SLUB Dresden
  4. ↑ Military caricatures of this kind were also very popular outside of Saxony at the time, cf. similar texts e.g. B. with Joseph Plaut : instruction hour (Beka B.6212-II), Robert Stein, Cologne: Tünnes in the instruction hour (Turmaphon Record 6908), Hermann Wehling: a happy instruction hour (Isiphon 614), Carl Hummel: a personal instruction hour. Swiss military humoresque ( Kalliope 3039/40)
  5. ↑ DNB 381999823
  6. ↑ This negative beauty award is strongly reminiscent of the Ore Mountains joke Mei Bärbele by Hilmar Mückenberger , cf. Song postcard at [1]  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / hm-gt.homepage.t-online.de  
  7. ↑ to be heard on youtube , here also the transcript of the text
  8. ↑ to be heard on youtube , here also the transcript of the text
  9. ↑ DNB 382377966
  10. ↑ DNB 382377974
  11. ↑ this label does not name the authors of the lectures, but only specifies “Saxon dialect lecture” and the interpreter (“The cozy Saxons”, “Gregorius”), cf. Fig. At ytimg.com
  12. ↑ DNB 382520793
  13. ↑ DNB 382520807
personal data
SURNAME Gregorius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Saxon folk singer and musician
DATE OF BIRTH 19th century
DATE OF DEATH 20th century