Johann Baptist Bommas

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Notes of the song composed by Bommas

Johann Baptist Bommas (* 1816 in Schwäbisch Gmünd ; † April 27, 1893 there ) was a German composer and Catholic pastor .

family

Bommas, son of Sebastian Bommas and Theresia Lambert, came from a noble family in the imperial city of Schwäbisch Gmünd. His grandfather Bonaventura Bommas († 1801), the rich court master of St. Katharina , wanted to be ennobled as "Herr von Leineck". Namely, he owned the houses at Imhofstrasse 2 and 4 ("Katz" and "Kätzle") in the so-called Leinecker Hof. His father was the Gmünder Syndikus Peter Bommas , who died in 1775 . Johann Christian Bommas, coming from Freiburg im Breisgau , settled in Gmünd in the 17th century, where he took over the bock business and in 1636 married Eva Debler, a daughter from one of the leading families at the time. 1656–1668 he was mayor .

Life

Ordained a priest in Rottenburg am Neckar in 1840 , Johann Baptist Bommas took up the parish office in Rötenbach near Bad Waldsee in 1846 . The music-loving pastor founded a "brass music society" there and is said to have blown the Gloria on the trumpet at the altar. From 1850 to 1862 he worked in Ratzenried . In Ettenkirch , his next parish office, he had to take care of the rebuilding of the parish church. On May 11, 1886, he retired to his hometown Gmünd, where he worked as a chaplain on St. Salvator until his retirement in 1892 . In 1888, under his benefit , the late Gothic palm donkey kept in the Salvator , on which an inscription refers to Bommas, was renovated . Tended in the mother house, he died on April 27, 1893 and was buried in the Leonhard cemetery (on the southwest wall on the Rems), where his grave still existed in 1959.

Don't you hear the little bell ringing

As a composer, as far as is known, Bommas only emerged with the earlier popular song Do not you hear the bell ring . It is recorded in 1856 (with notes) in a songbook for Christian associations without a statement of the author. The text can also be found anonymously on Volksliederarchiv.de with the source: Alpenrose - "Songbook for our girls" (published in 1924 by the Reich Association of Catholic Girls' Associations in Graz). The German Folk Song Archive has two song books "Edelweiß" (V 3/5579) and "Mädchenliederbuch" (V 5/830), both of which appeared in 1919 (as well as some more recent documents) as the earliest evidence. The author's name is also missing in both songbooks. Albert Deibele , who in 1959 reproduced the sheet music of the song like the above-mentioned songbooks, states that the song became widespread through its inclusion in the song collection of the Catholic elementary schools in Württemberg around 1900: “Today you can still hear it singing every now and then, and when the older women's world speaks of the songs of their youth, the little song mentioned is rarely missing ”. It was heard for the first time in Ratzenried in May 2000 at a church concert organized by Berthold Büchele.

literature

  • Albert Deibele : Johann Baptist Bommas, a composer from Gmünd . In: Gmünder Heimatblätter 20 (1959), pp. 54–56

Web links

Commons : Johann Baptist Bommas  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Johann Baptist Bommas  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The talking family coat of arms, a tree on the "Katz" on Commons .
  2. ^ Commons
  3. ↑ Klaus Graf : On the topography of the imperial city Schwäbisch Gmünd: Leinecker Hof, Himmelreich and Judenhof . In: Einhorn-Jahrbuch Schwäbisch Gmünd 2001, pp. 191–201, here p. 197 Artdok .
  4. ^ Gaumer Bommas Balluff. (No longer available online.) In: eglofs.de. Archived from the original on January 6, 2015 ; accessed on January 6, 2015 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.eglofs.de
  5. ↑ The inscription reads "hh Pf. Bomas / Reno.1888"; in Richard Strobel: The art monuments of the city of Schwäbisch Gmünd, Volume IV: Churches and secular buildings outside the old town. Districts . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-422-06381-1 , p. 127.
  6. ↑ grave stones: Bommas. In: grabsteine.genealogy.net. Retrieved January 6, 2015 .
  7. ↑ Schmidsche Buchhandl .: Songs for Christian associations, both youths and Virgins' alliances as journeyman's associations. Schmidsche Buchhandl., 1856, p. 110. Restricted preview in the Google book search
  8. ↑ Alpenrose - song book for our girls Volksliederarchiv. (No longer available online.) In: volksliederarchiv.de. Archived from the original on December 30, 2014 ; accessed on January 6, 2015 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.volksliederarchiv.de
  9. ↑ Deibele, p. 55.
  10. ^ Gaumer Bommas Balluff. (No longer available online.) In: eglofs.de. Archived from the original on January 6, 2015 ; accessed on January 6, 2015 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.eglofs.de
personal data
SURNAME Bommas, Johann Baptist
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pianist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH 1816
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwäbisch Gmünd
DATE OF DEATH April 27, 1893
Place of death Schwäbisch Gmünd