Josef Laßletzberger

Josef Laßletzberger (born September 30, 1862 in Melk ; † June 8, 1939 in Zelking ) was an Austrian military bandmaster and composer .

Life

Josef Laßletzberger was initially trained on the violin, piano and various wind instruments by his father, a choir director. In 1882 he joined the regimental music of the newly established kuk infantry regiment No. 84 . Their conductor Karl Komzák taught Laßletzberger in harmony and instrumentation and made him his deputy. He then became a chamber musician in Melk Abbey and in 1890 worked for a short time as the music school director in Fünfhaus . In 1896 he continued his military music career; He was first Kapellmeister of the kuk Infantry Regiment No. 100 in Cracow and in 1905 switched to his old regiment, the 84s, in Krems. In 1908, Laßletzberger was wanted on suspicion of "fornication"; he fled to America, but returned to Austria and was acquitted in 1909 by the Krems district court. Until the end of the monarchy he served as Kapellmeister of the Imperial and Royal Infantry Regiment No. 41 in Chernivtsi . Little is known about his further life; Laßletzberger lived secluded in Zelking and possibly wrote church music.

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Laßletzberger was best known as a march composer. In 1898 he won the composition competition for military marches, which was held on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the throne of Franz Joseph I , with his piece Für Österreichs Ehr ' (the later regimental march of the kuk infantry regiment No. 93 ), the second place behind Karl Komzák's Kaiser- March .

Marches

• For Austria's honor ' (also known as the 93rd regimental march )
• criss-cross
• Under the Austrian flag
• 3 Dragoon
• Whistle! Puff! Puff!
• Horestzky March
• Rogulic March
• 41st regimental march (also known as the 41st war march )
• Sanléque March
• Colonel Grössl March
• Farewell march
• Beech forest march
• Colonel Demar March
• Faithfulness to the flag

literature

• Wolfgang Suppan , Armin Suppan : The brass music lexicon . 5th edition. HeBu-Musikverlag, Kraichtal 2010, ISBN 978-3-9806925-9-5 , p. 458 .
• William H. Rehrig: The Heritage Encyclopedia of Band Music. Composers and Their Music . Ed .: Paul E. Bierley. Volume 1: A – N. Integrity Press, Westerville, Ohio 1991, ISBN 0-918048-08-7 , pp. 439 .
• Christian Fastl: Josef Laßletzberger. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-7001-3045-7 .
• Friedrich Anzenberger : On the 75th anniversary of Josef Laßletzberger's death - he composed the march “For Austria's Honor” . In: Österreichischer Blasmusikverband (Ed.): Wind music research . No. 12 . Zeillern May 2014, p. 3–4 ( blasmusik.at [PDF; 245 kB ]).

References and comments

1. ↑ The regiment was not set up until 1883, the chapel as early as 1882, cf. Friedrich Anzenberger : Short story of the "84er" band and its Kapellmeister. Website of the music publisher Walter Schwanzer, accessed on June 16, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Tracked in detail. In:  Neuigkeits-Welt-Blatt , October 20, 1908, p. 8 (online at ANNO ).
3. ↑ Unexpected turn of a process. In:  Oesterreichische Land-Zeitung / Deutschösterreichische Land-Zeitung , 23 October 1909, p. 9 (online at ANNO ).
4. ^ Friedrich Anzenberger : "Kaiser-Franz-Joseph-Jubiläums-Marschwettbewerb" 1898 - a supplement to the 120th anniversary . In: Österreichischer Blasmusikverband (Ed.): Wind music research . No. 42 . Spittal an der Drau February 2019, p. 4–5 ( blasmusik.at [PDF; 3.1 MB ]).