Hans Schnopfhagen
Hans Schnopfhagen (born January 17, 1845 in Oberneukirchen , Upper Austria ; † June 27, 1908 in Sankt Veit im Mühlkreis , Upper Austria) was an Austrian composer , local poet and teacher .
Schnopfhagen worked as a teacher and had dealt with singing and music at an early age . He received his first job as a school assistant in Niederwaldkirchen , and from 1867 in Bad Leonfelden . There he met the folk poet and traditional curator Hans Zötl .
Hans Schnopfhagen subsequently worked as a senior teacher in St. Veit in the Mühlkreis. There he founded the " Stelzhamer Quartet", for which he set numerous dialect poems to music. Including the " Hoamatgsang ", which has been the Upper Austrian national anthem since 1952 .
He also founded the "Liederkranz Oberneukirchen" in his hometown Oberneukirchen in 1873, of which he was the choirmaster until his death. In 1907 Schnopfhagen was granted honorary citizenship of Oberneukirchen.
literature
- A. Blöchl: Schnopfhagen Hans d. Ä. (Johann). In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 10, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-7001-2186-5 , p. 413 f. (Direct links on p. 413 , p. 414 ).
- Hanns Gilbert Müller: Fire Brigade Music alla Turca , p. 214f. in the conference proceedings of the CTIF from 2009 in Přibyslav , online
Web links
- Works by and about Hans Schnopfhagen in the catalog of the German National Library
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| SURNAME | Schnopfhagen, Hans |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian composer and local poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 17, 1845 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oberneukirchen , Upper Austria |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 27, 1908 |
| Place of death | Sankt Veit im Mühlkreis , Upper Austria |