Josef Krickl

Josef Krickl (born February 2, 1870 in Eichenbrunn , Lower Austria ; † March 31, 1953 in Stronsdorf , Lower Austria) was an Austrian composer , violinist and bass horn player from the Weinviertel .

Life

Josef Krickl, the "waltz king of the Weinviertel", was born in Eichenbrunn in the Mistelbach district, Lower Austria. Here he learned to play the violin and bass flugelhorn. In the 84th Infantry Regiment he was a military musician and violinist under Kapellmeister Karl Komzak . On June 24, 1902, he married Marie Gabriel from Stronsdorf, with whom he had two children (Marianne, born in 1903 and Josef, born in 1904). During the First World War he served as a soldier in the k. and k. Mobile horse depot No. 15 in Carniola.
Josef Krickl died on March 31, 1953 at the age of 83. Krickl was buried at the cemetery in Stronsdorf.

Musical career

Josef Krickl was a very productive composer. Since his first work “The First Church Day Waltz”, Krickl has composed around 300 pieces of music. The popular “Waidmannsheilwalzer” was created on a hunt in Röhrabrunn in 1890 and shortly before his death, namely in 1952, he set the “Stronsdorfer Heimatlied” to music based on a text by the landowner Dominik Kamml-Hardegger.

Josef Krickl received his first violin lessons from his father. His talent was soon recognized and so he came to Mailberg , where he learned to play the violin, piano and zither with the well-known Kapellmeister Josef Sitter. At the age of 17 he went to the "Prager Elevenschule", a music school of the Austro-Hungarian Military Music Society in Prague. From 1890 to 1894 Josef Krickl played with the regimental music of Infantry Regiment No. 84. There he was solo violinist and bass horn player under Kapellmeister Karl Komzák and his successor Josef Laßletzberger in Vienna and Mostar.

After his military service he founded the "Capelle Krickl" and devoted himself to his beloved compositions. With his band he played at countless Kirtagen, weddings, parties and concerts until the end of the 1930s. As a music teacher, he taught children from Stronsdorf and the surrounding area and he was the choir director of the Stronsdorf church choir for many years.

Weinviertel Kirtagsmusik

In the middle of the last century, Kirtag orchestras were formed in the Leiser Berge area . There were similar occupations in the rest of the Weinviertel. Inspired by the Viennese waltz composers , the bandmaster " standing violinist " was also here . The rest of the scoring: 2nd violin (second violin), viola, double bass, flute, 1st and 2nd clarinet, 1st and 2nd trumpet, 1st and 2nd French horn and trombone. The drums were added later. For this line-up, some Weinviertel composers, such as Josef Krickl, created dance styles that were extremely popular.

Works (selection)

waltz

• The first church day waltz
• Waidmannsheilwalzer
• Forest noise
• When the leaves fall
• When the oak trees rustle
• At Liebchens side (original manuscript in the museum village of Niedersulz)
• Spring joys (original manuscript in the museum village of Niedersulz)

polka

• Fighting polka
• Fresh green (polka francaise)
• Elf Queen (Polka Mazurka)
• For love (polka quick)
• Defiant head (polka francaise)

Others

• Stronsdorfer Heimatlied

All known works are listed in the "Krickl-Stickl-Directory" (KSV).

literature

• "Josef Krickl - The Waltz King of the Weinviertel" by Michael Staribacher, Verlag Günther Hofer / Retz 2013, ISBN 978-3-902111-48-7
• Newspaper article "Regionalblatt", 1953
• House chronicle Eichenbrunn, Dr. Jakob Singer, 1962, page 359f.
• "Kirtag anno thirty in the Leiser Mountains", record by Günter Meißl, Kraftwerkstrasse Ia / 2, 2183 Neusiedl / Zaya, 1974
• AKM catalog raisonné 1927