Josef Linster

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Josef Rudolf Ludwig Linster

Josef Rudolf Ludwig Linster (born January 29, 1889 in Szakálháza ( German  Sackelhausen ), Kingdom of Hungary , Austria-Hungary , † July 19, 1954 in Grieskirchen , Austria ) was a Romanian-German composer , music teacher and folklorist .

Life

education

Linster attended the community school in Zsombolya (German Hatzfeld ) from 1899 to 1903 and then studied at the teacher training college in Temesvár . From 1909 he taught at the elementary school in Zsombolya. From 1909 to 1910 he took lessons in piano, theory, singing and composition with Guido von Pogatschnigg at the Music School of Temesvár, from 1911 to 1913 he took part in a course for singing teachers at the Budapest Music Academy.

Music pedagogue

From 1914 to 1918 Linster was a soldier in the First World War . After being wounded, he returned to Žombolj (now Serbian Zsombolya ), which is now under Serbian administration , where he ran a private music school from 1919 to 1925. In addition, he was from 1922 to 1932 music and singing teacher at the grammar school there, in the now Romanian town of Jimbolia . After teaching at the Romanian grammar school in Șimleu Silvaniei , he taught from 1935 to 1942 at the Banatia and at the Prinz-Eugen-Schule in Timișoara, then at the German grammar school in Jimbolia. In 1944 Linster fled to Austria, where he first taught at the secondary school in Amstetten , and from 1946 until his death in 1954 at the municipal music school in Grieskirchen .

composer

Linster started composing at an early age. Before the First World War, several arrangements of well-known Hungarian folk songs were made for voice and piano or for piano alone, but also overtures, fantasies, an F major mass for mixed choir and choral compositions.

In addition to his teaching activities, Linster was also active as a choir director: in 1907 he took over the management of the commercial choral society of Zsombolya, and in 1922 the management of the choir of the association “Landestreu”. In 1928 he was appointed choirmaster of the Association of Banat German Singers . The most famous work by Linster is the setting of the poem Mein Heimatland, Banaterland by Peter Jung , which became the hymn of the Banat Swabians. He also set Lenau's Schilflieder and Die Drei for male choir to music. He has also received a mass and an Ave Maria for two female voices with harmonium accompaniment.

Dialect author

Josef Linster has made great contributions not only as a musician, but also as a folk song collector and dialect author . He made the folk songs recorded by him available to the folklorist and founder of the Institute for East German Folklore in Freiburg, Professor Johannes Künzig , which is now named after him . Scientifically edited and commented on by Gottfried habenicht , his manuscript was published in 1988 under the title “The Linster Folk Song Collection (1933/1934) from Hatzfeld in the Banat”. As a dialect author, he wrote mostly humorous short stories, which he published in 1953/1954 in the Danube Swabian weekly "Neuland" in Salzburg.

To commemorate his work, the “ Heimatortsgemeinschaft Hatzfeld” had a plaque put up on his former house in 1999.

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  1. ↑ a b c Edition Musik Südost - Josef Linster
  2. ↑ a b c Hatzfeld personalities , Josef Linster
personal data
SURNAME Linster, Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Linster, Josef Rudolf Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian-German composer and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Szakálháza , Kingdom of Hungary , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH July 19, 1954
Place of death Grieskirchen