Johann Schrammel

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Johann Schrammel

Johann Schrammel (born May 22, 1850 in Neulerchenfeld ( Vienna ), † June 17, 1893 in Vienna- Hernals ) was an Austrian composer, musician and folk singer .

Life

Johann Schrammel, born at Gaullachergasse 35 (at that time Neulerchenfeld 119), was the illegitimate son of clarinetist Kaspar Schrammel and his later wife Aloisia Ernst; his younger brother was Josef Schrammel . He also had an older half-brother Konrad Schrammel (1833-1905), who had to earn his living as an organ grinder when he had to retire from military service as an invalid.

Schrammel and his brother received their first musical lessons from their father. When he was about six years old, Johann Schrammel was able to sing in the church choir of his home parish Neulerchenfeld. Through his father's mediation, Schrammel received violin lessons from the Carltheater's first violinist , Ernst Melzer, from 1858 .

On January 6, 1861, Schrammel made his debut together with his father and brother on the occasion of a benefit concert in the inn "Zum golden Stuck" (Neulerchenfelder Straße). Despite financial hardship, Kaspar Schrammel let his two sons study at the Vienna Conservatory from 1862/63 . In addition to singing lessons, violin lessons from Joseph and Georg Hellmesberger soon became more important. Later the violinist Karl Heissler became his violin teacher.

Schrammel left the conservatory in June 1865, and according to unsecured sources, by this time he was already a member of the orchestra of the Harmonietheater and the theater in der Josefstadt . In the following year Schrammel joined the army and served with Dragoon Regiment No. 2 and later with Infantry Regiments No. 32 and No. 49. He held the post of squadron trumpeter there until 1875 and also worked as a music sergeant.

In 1872 Schrammel married Rosalia Weichselbaumer and had 13 children with her; but only nine of them survived childhood. In the last years of his military service Schrammel was - privately, so to speak - a freelance orchestral musician, among others. a. also in the orchestra of Carl Mangold .

The Schrammel Quartet, 1879

In 1878, together with his brother Josef Schrammel and the guitarist Draskovits, he founded a trio called "D'Nussdorfer". In 1879, Draskovits was replaced by Anton Strohmayer . In the same year the trio became the famous Schrammel Quartet with the addition of the clarinetist Georg Dänzer . The quartet achieved great popularity with its way of playing popular Viennese music and thus became the founder of the Schrammelmusik named after him .

At the age of 43, Johann Schrammel died of a kidney infection in his house at Rötzergasse 13 in Vienna-Hernals. He was buried in the Hernalser Friedhof (group K, no. 205) in an honorary grave .

Probably his best-known piece, the Marsch Wien ist Wien , was printed by many European publishers before GEMA or AKM was founded and is still very popular today, perhaps also because of the derisive texts.

Honors

Memorial plaque on the residential building
  • 1923 was in the 17th district of Vienna Hernals the Schrammel street named after him.
  • In 1931 a memorial plaque was placed on the brothers' house at 36 Kalvarienberggasse.
  • In 1932 the Alszauberbrunnen was built on Elterleinplatz . The musicians Johann Schrammel, Franz Paul Fiebrich , Adolf Rondorf and Willi Strohmayer sat on a stone monument as almost life-size metal figures . During the Second World War , the figures were melted down; In 1981 they were replaced by replicas by Heriberth Rath.
  • In 1967, a Schrammel monument by Eduard Robitschko was unveiled in the park (Dornbacher Strasse, across from 83-85) on November 18 .

reception

Works (selection)

Vienna remains Vienna!
Grave of Johann Schrammel in the Hernalser Friedhof
  • The Swallow Greeting , op. 105. Song, text by Carl Lindau .
  • Carnival donuts . Waltz.
  • Happiness and love . Waltz song, text by Eduard Merkt .
  • Pike March .
  • Art and nature . March.
  • Praterveigerln , op. 151. Polka française.
  • 's heart of at real Weana . (Known as " Schrammel Walzer" ); Waltz for piano with singing ad libitum, text by Carl Lorens .
  • Vindobona, you wonderful city . Waltz song, words by Karl Schmitter .
  • Why there Weana has to go to heaven kumma . Original couplet Eduard Merkt.
  • What Austria is . Alt-Wienerlied, words by Wilhelm Wiesberg .
  • Weana G′müat , op.112.Waltz .
  • Vienna - Berlin , op.100 March.
  • Vienna remains Vienna! March.
  • Viennese artist , op. 111. March, text by CM Haslbrunner.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death book parish Hernals (1893), p. 144
  2. ↑ z. B. "Herr Hauptmann, Herr Hauptmann, what is your wife doing? ...", "That you love me, I know / shit on your love ..." (see Lukas Richter: "Der Berliner Gassenhauer. Representation, Documents, collection "Waxmann Verlag, Münster 2004; p. 405 ff. Google Books hits: [1] )

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personal data
SURNAME Schrammel, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian composer and musician
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH June 17, 1893
Place of death Vienna