Josef Schrammel

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Josef Schrammel, medallion on his tombstone
The Schrammel Quartet around 1890

Josef Schrammel (born March 3, 1852 in Ottakring , today Vienna , † November 24, 1895 in Vienna- Hernals ) was an Austrian composer and musician .

Life

Josef Schrammel, born at Friedrich-Kaiser-Gasse 11 (then Ottakring 226), was the illegitimate son of the clarinetist Kaspar Schrammel and his later wife Aloisia Ernst. The father recognized the musical talent of his sons Johann and Josef very early and, despite financial hardship, sent them to the conservatory of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna , where they a. a. received violin lessons from Josef Hellmesberger senior . Josef Schrammel traveled to the Orient as a violinist. In 1878 Josef founded a trio with his brother and the guitarist Draskovits ; the following year Draskovits was replaced by the guitarist Anton Strohmayer . The famous Schrammel Quartet was subsequently created through the addition of the clarinetist Georg Dänzer .

As a composer, Josef Schrammel was less successful than his brother Johann .

Just two years after his brother, Josef Schrammel died in 1895 at the same age of 43 as his brother, in the same house (Rötzergasse 13 in Vienna-Hernals) and of the same cause of death (kidney inflammation). His honorary grave is in the Hernalser Friedhof in Vienna (group 1, number 31).

His life was shown on film in 1944 in Schrammeln .

literature

Grave of Josef Schrammel in the Hernals cemetery

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Death book parish Hernals (1895), p. 253