Johann Kaszner

Johann Kaszner (born December 14, 1955 in Giarmata , Romania ) is a German music teacher, trombonist, tenor horn player, orchestra conductor and composer.

Career

Johann Kaszner comes from a family of musicians. His grandfather Johann Kaszner (1901–1945) played the tenor horn and his father Johann Kaszner sen. (1927–2008), a multi-instrumentalist and arranger, founded a brass band and an entertainment orchestra , the Kaszner Chapel , in 1956 in the Banat village of Fun Market / Giarmata .

Johann Kaszner got his first knowledge of music from his father at home, where both wind and entertainment orchestras held their rehearsals. His path to professional music led through the "Ion Vidu" music school in Timisoara and the "Gheorghe Dima" conservatory in Klausenburg / Cluj-Napoca , where he completed his studies with a major in trombone . During his student days he celebrated considerable success as a singing duo in the Banat with his fellow student Josef Stritt. This was followed by an engagement as a trombonist at the Romanian National Opera in Timișoara, which came to an end in 1983 when he fled to Germany .

In Germany Johann Kaszner remained faithful to the brass bands and took place in Wiesbaden in the country Police Orchestra Hessen a job as a tenor horn player and trombonist. There he also made contact with Michael Klostermann and his musicians . With this brass band he recorded a CD as a singer and he appeared on a ZDF program with the singer Mara Reinholz. He passes on his musical knowledge to amateur musicians in the Catholic Church Music Association Sulzheim (KKMV) and in the Catholic Church Music Ockenheim (KKM) , whose musical direction he has been since 1991 and 1995 respectively. He also founded the dance music band Das Schwabenecho with which he played especially for the Banat Swabians based in Germany .

He is the longest- serving musician with the Original Egerländer Musikanten , where he has played the tenor horn since 1988 under the direction of Ernst Mosch and currently blows the trombone and tenor horn under the direction of Ernst Hutter . Johann Kaszner is also a composer. His pieces, composed in the style of Bohemian brass music, were recorded by the original Egerland musicians on various sound carriers and are also played by other brass bands.

He lives in Armsheim , Rhineland-Palatinate .

Works

• Memories of home (waltz)
• Egerland pearl (polka)
• Egerland Jubilee Polka

Sound carrier

• The Schwabenecho: Music for every taste , MC
• The Swabian Echo: Young Hearts ; PHONOSOUND, CD 930804
• Michael Klostermann and his Bohemian Forest musicians: That's how it sounds in Bohemia ; east west records GmbH, 2008, CD 849 829-2
• Ernst Hutter & Egerländer Musicians: Right in the heart ; ECHO MUSIKVERLAG GmbH, 2003
• Ernst Hutter & Egerländer Musicians: Star Edition ; KOCH UNIVERSAL MUSIC, CD 06025 1720383
• Ernst Hutter & Die Egerländer Musikanten: The fire continues to burn ; MCP SOUND & MEDIA, CD 171.238
• The Egerland musicians: music for life ; KOCH UNIVERSAL MUSIC, CD 325.115; 2002
• Ernst Hutter & Die Egerländer Musikanten: Bohemian Gold , CD 3; KOCH UNIVERSAL, CD 06025 1753460; 2008
• Fantasy in Blue - HeBu Records 2005, HR CD 2005/02 - with the track “Memory Song” by Steve Hagedorn, soloist: Johann Kaszner, euphonium

literature

• Franz Junginger: Ortssippenbuch of the Catholic parish Jahrmarkt / Banat and its parish branches, 1730–2007, Volume II K – Q ; Ed .: Home town community fair; Ulm 2008
• Robert Rohr: Our sounding legacy - From the musical life of the Danube Swabians from 1918 to the present ; Publishing house of the Donauschwäbischen Kulturstiftung, Munich, 1994; ISBN 3-926276-20-7
• Robert Rohr: Our sounding legacy - On the musical culture of the Danube Swabians ; Publishing house of the Donauschwäbischen Kulturstiftung, Munich, 2001; ISBN 3-926276-44-4
• Stephan-Heinrich Pollmann: Banat Swabian and Transylvanian brass bands and music groups in Germany ; Self-published, Clausthal-Zellerfeld 1995

Web links

• History Lessons - Part 3