Hannes Apfolterer

Hannes Apfolterer (born January 16, 1965 in Mayrhofen ) is an Austrian clarinetist , composer and military bandmaster.

Life

Hannes Apfolterer grew up in Mayrhofen in the Zillertal . He learned to play the piano and clarinet at an early age . At the age of ten he joined the music band of his hometown as a clarinetist, before at eighteen he passed a concert test for the Diamond Achievement Badge of the European Brass Band Association at the European Youth Music Festival in Amsterdam . Apfolterer, who at the age of sixteen had also been accepted as an extraordinary listener by the Innsbruck Conservatory , did his basic military service with the Tyrolean Military Music in 1983 , took up a proper degree in composition and instrumental pedagogy at the Innsbruck Conservatory and graduated in 1990 - parallel to his service in the Military music Tyrol - its state teaching qualification test. He passed the diploma examination in the main subject clarinet with excellent results. He also completed the Kapellmeisterschule under music director Edgar Seipenbusch . As a division music master of the Tyrolean Military Music , he prepared for the military music director examination, which he passed with honors in 1993. Subsequently, in 1994, Lieutenant Apfolterer was assigned to the service of the Tyrolean Military Music as 2nd Kapellmeister. In the same year Apfolterer also took over the management of the "Original Tiroler Kaiserjägermusik".

In 1995 Apfolterer became Kapellmeister of the Salzburg Military Music and since 2001 he has directed the Tyrolean Military Music. After the Kapellmeister of the Military Music Vorarlberg , Mjr. Karl Gamper, suddenly and unexpectedly died on August 1st, 2008, Apfolterer took over the leadership of this orchestra on an interim basis until March 2010. On July 1, 2015, Kapellmeister Hannes Apfolterer was promoted to colonel . He also received the professional title of Professor in 2015 . In 2018 he resigned as head of the "Original Tiroler Kaiserjägermusik".

He is married and has three children.

Awards

• 2009: Decoration of Honor for Art and Culture of the City of Innsbruck
• 2013: Decoration of Honor "Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov" of the Military Orchestra Service of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (awarded by Valery Chalilov )
• 2014: Cross of Merit of the State of Tyrol

plant

Apfolterer appeared as a soloist all over Europe in his early years and began to compose seriously from the age of twenty. In addition to many useful compositions for everyday military music, he mainly composes military marches in the old Austrian style as well as brass music fantasies.

His best-known work is the Edelweiss March, played by military bands across Europe .

His compositions mainly revolve around Austrian military music, both in a historical sense and with contemporary references. Apfolterer tries to make his works or adaptations as authentic as possible, to come as close as possible to the original. At the Edelweiß concert on April 14, 2007, on the occasion of the anniversary "50 years of Tyrolean military music", he conducted a 107-man wind orchestra, consisting of the military musicians who served at the time and former musicians of the Tyrolean military music.

Web links

• Official website of Hannes Apfolterer
• Literature by and about Hannes Apfolterer in the catalog of the German National Library
• List of compositions and arrangements by Hannes Apfolterer on the Tiroler Kaiserjägermusik website ( memento from August 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
• Photo apfolterer. Retrieved September 1, 2008 . 
• Hannes Apfolterer on militaermusikfreunde.at

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kapellmeister Hannes Apfolterer promoted to colonel ( memento of the original from January 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from July 1, 2015, accessed on January 13, 2016  
2. ↑ About the person ( Memento of the original from March 16, 2017 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. accessed on January 13, 2016 
3. ↑ Hubert Trenkwalder: It should be a real new start. tt.com, June 17, 2018, accessed July 12, 2019 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b} Blasmusikverband - CV Hannes Apfolterer ( Memento of the original from December 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved December 23, 2014.