Josef Abel (composer)

Josef Abel (born March 22, 1929 in Deronje (now part of Odžaci ), Yugoslavia (now Serbia )) is an Austrian composer and arranger in the field of brass music . He worked as a teacher.

Life

Josef Abel was born in Yugoslavia. Due to his German ancestry, he was forced to flee after the Second World War and came to Vorarlberg in 1945 . First he was in Warth , then in Langen near Bregenz , where he worked as an agricultural assistant. As a late-career worker, he completed the teacher training college in Feldkirch from 1949 to 1954 , where he also received his musical training from Wilhelm Schosland, Franz Howorka and Rudolf Mayer . He took further training in brass music with Leo Ertl, Herbert König and Sepp Tanzer .

Abel headed the Damüls elementary school from 1954 to 1990 . In 1978 he founded Bergwald-Verlag , later renamed Musikverlag Abel , which his son Dietmar took over. In addition, he was Kapellmeister of the Musikverein Alpenklänge Damüls from 1960 to 1996 , led a choir for 40 years and initiated a theater group . He has been the organist in Damüls since 1954 and was a member of the municipal council and at times deputy mayor. He also works on a voluntary basis in the Vorarlberger Volksliedwerk and was director of the Bregenzerwald Music School.

Josef Abel has been married since 1955 and has three sons and a daughter. He lives in the Damüls district of Uga .

Honors

• 2010: Great Merit of the State of Vorarlberg
• 2014: Medal of Merit of the Diocese of Feldkirch
• 2014: Honorary citizenship of the Damüls community

Works (selection)

Compositions

Source:

• Balaton (Hungarian sketch)
• Mountain flowers (waltz)
• Lively day ( overture )
• Black Out ( Belgano )
• Dalli, Dalli (quick polka)
• Village wise men (waltz)
• Condor (concert march)
• Memories of Dornau (waltz)
• Harvest Festival (rural sketch), Bergwald-Verlag, 1958
• Eternal rest (funeral chorale)
• Greetings to the home village , Abel music publisher
• Im Bergdorf (rural suite for four horns), 1996, I.  Aufbruch , II.  Rundblick , III. Mountain farmers dance , IV.  In the mountain church , V.  Ausklang
• In the mountains ( march )
• Lumberjack Polka
• Making music for children (easy pieces of music for Orff instruments )
• Little serenade
• Small suite
• Praise the Lord ( Mass )
• Marciale ( March Intermezzo ), Bergwald-Verlag
• Miniature overture
• With a festive game (march)
• Through life with music (march)
• Prelude , Bergwald-Verlag
• Preis der Heimat (concert piece), Helbling Verlag, 1966. Instrumentation: Sepp Tanzer OCLC 79760509
• Sursum Corda (mass for wind orchestra)
• Tokay Wine (Hungarian Intermezzo), Bergwald-Verlag
• Trust in God (Mass for Four Horns), 1996
• Wanderblut (street march), Abel Musikverlag

Arrangements

• Ernst Lamprecht: Siesta (solo for 2 trumpets / flugelhorns and wind orchestra), Bergwald Musikverlag Abel, 1996

Fonts

• Damuls. The little vacation advisor . Säntis Verlag K. Mahnert, Innsbruck 1960.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} "The Teacher" is an honorary citizen of Damüls . In: vol.at , March 27, 2014. Retrieved November 18, 2017.
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Wolfgang Suppan , Armin Suppan : Das Blasmusik-Lexikon . 5th edition. HeBu-Musikverlag, Kraichtal 2010, ISBN 978-3-9806925-9-5 , p. 19 .
3. ^ ^{A b} Walter Giselbrecht: Milestones in the school history of Damül . In: argekleinschulen.vobs.at , November 20, 2012. Retrieved November 18, 2017.
4. ↑ Chronicle . In: mv-damuels.at , 2017. Retrieved on November 18, 2017.
5. ↑ Andrea Harrandt: Abel, Josef. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-7001-3043-0 .
6. ↑ ^{a b} Gerhard Wirth: Appreciation for services to society . In: presse.vorarlberg.at , October 26, 2010. Accessed November 18, 2017.
7. ↑ Bernd Madlener: Minutes of the meeting 51 of the Damüls municipal council . March 25, 2014. Retrieved November 18, 2017 (PDF; 287 kB)