Hans Schmid (musician)

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Hans Schmid (born November 20, 1893 in Kleintajax near Znaim , † May 27, 1987 in America) was an Austrian composer, arranger and conductor.

His father was a farmer and dance musician in a dance band, in which Hans Schmid also played as a child. At the age of ten he attended the music school in Znojmo and wrote his first compositions.

At the age of 15 Schmid joined the regimental music service of the Imperial and Royal Infantry Regiment "Archduke Rainer" No. 59 as a music eleve , as he was unable to study music in Vienna for financial reasons. During the First World War he became head of the regimental music and rose to the rank of sergeant. In 1915 Schmid was stationed in Galicia , where he composed the Rainer March . In 1917 he was temporarily transferred to the regimental music of the kuk 1. Tiroler Jäger Regiment "Kaiserjäger" , where he served under Karl Mühlberger . At the end of the war he was back with Infantry Regiment No. 59.

From 1919 Schmid was community secretary and bandmaster in Tamsweg and between 1922 and 1925 also community secretary in Straßwalchen . There he was also conductor of the theater company orchestra. Then Schmid moved to Salzburg. On May 1, 1938, he became a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 6,319,577 ). In Salzburg he directed the Maxglan music band until 1947; he also founded his own salon orchestra and was a member of the Mozarteum orchestra . During the Second World War , Schmid was the head of a chemical company and was deployed in the air defense.

Schmid and his wife emigrated to Salt Lake City , USA, in the 1950s . There he founded a music studio and continued to work as a composer, music teacher and conductor. After returning to Salzburg for a short time in 1964, Schmid finally settled in Salt Lake City. A grave of honor in the Salzburg municipal cemetery commemorates him.

Works (selection)

Schmid composed a total of over 250 works, including 70 marches and over 30 concert pieces. He also wrote two operettas, Der Graf vom Wienerwald and Bauernblut .

  • Rain march
  • Musician's greeting , march
  • Samson , march
  • Alpine hunters , march
  • Mountain country children , march
  • Kaiserschützen , march
  • Viribus unitis , march
  • Adolescence is beautiful , waltz
  • Greetings from the city of Mozart , waltz
  • Mirabella , overture
  • Fanfare greetings , overture
  • Austria Express , polka
  • Der Pfiffikus , concert polka for piccolo flute
  • From the Zillertal , idyll
  • From the mountain home , idyll
  • In the camp , idyll
  • Idian festival , idyll
  • Salzburger Schlittenpost , idyll

literature

  • Christian Fastl: Hans Schmid. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 4, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7001-3046-5 .
  • Karl Müller / Johann Müller: Hans Schmid (1893-1987). A composer's life . Salzburg Brass Band Association, Salzburg 1993.
  • Sepp Voithofer: Straßwalchen. History of our homeland. 1988, market town of Straßwalchen: self-published.
  • Kurt Birsak, Manfred König: The great Salzburg brass music book . Verlag Christian Brandstätter, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-85447-030-4 , p. 144 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stefanie Ruep: Criticism of honor grave for "Rainermarsch" composer. In: derstandard.at . November 27, 2019, accessed November 27, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Schmid, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian composer, arranger and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Kleintajax near Znojmo
DATE OF DEATH May 27, 1987
Place of death America