Heinrich Frantzen (musician)

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Karl Theodor Heinrich Frantzen (born October 1, 1880 in Cologne ; † May 13, 1953 there ) was a German military musician and carnival composer.

Life

Heinrich Frantzen was born in Cologne as the son of a master shoemaker. He was a student at the Cologne Conservatory , learned to play the trumpet and played in the orchestra of the Scala Theater in Cologne at the age of 16. During the First World War he was a military bandmaster. He later made a name for himself as a composer of carnival songs, handmade paper marches and potpourris. In the 1930s he led the rider corps "Jan von Werth" in the saddle.

His best-known work is the marching song Der treue Husar , which he composed for the founding of the Carnival Society Treuer Husar in 1925 on the text of a folk song that has been handed down since the beginning of the 19th century. The song quickly became a secret Cologne anthem. Frantzen's son Joseph "Jupp" Frantzen later wrote an extended text on the march.

Works

  • The faithful hussar
  • Fidele Altstädter (March)
  • Colonia Alaaf March
  • Jan von Werth-Marsch (Mer sin Cologne boy)
  • The dashing fire brigade
  • Mariechentanz
  • Can you pump me something
  • Sea rigge met däm Essel op d'r Drachefels
  • I have my own taste of Kölsche
  • Young, dat hate do got maht

literature

  • Frantzen, Heinr. In: Paul Frank, Wilhelm Altmann : Kurzgefaßtes Tonkünstler-Lexikon, 1st part, reprint of the edition from 1936, 15th edition. Heinrichshofen's Verlag, Wilhelmshaven 1983, ISBN 3-7959-0083-2 , p. 171.
  • Klaus Schlegel: Cologne and its Prussian soldiers. The history of the garrison and fortress Cologne from 1814 to 1914. Bachem, Cologne 1979, ISBN 3-7616-0496-3 , pp. 145–146; 199 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  • Andreas Vollberg: From Trizonesia to the Starlight era: light music in North Rhine-Westphalia (= Volume 4 from Musikland NRW). Agenda, Münster 2003, ISBN 3-89688-172-8 , p. 240 ( limited preview in the Google book search).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death certificate No. 2236 of May 13, 1953. In: LAV NRW R civil status register. Retrieved May 3, 2018 .
  2. ^ Wrong dates of life with Klaus Schlegel: Cologne and his Prussian soldiers. The history of the garrison and fortress Cologne from 1814 to 1914. Bachem, Cologne 1979, ISBN 3-7616-0496-3 , pp. 145, 199 ( limited preview in Google book search): 1871–1950
  3. ^ A b KG Treuer Husar Blau-Gelb von 1925 eV Cologne: Chronicle
personal data
SURNAME Frantzen, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frantzen, Karl Theodor Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH May 13, 1953
Place of death Cologne