Josef Wolfgang Ziegler

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Josef Wolfgang Ziegler (born November 23, 1906 in Kottingbrunn ; † February 3, 2000 in Gumpoldskirchen ) was an Austrian composer and choir director . After the Second World War he was involved in the rebuilding of the Lower Austrian choir.

Life

Ziegler completed his studies in composition , school music and organ at the Vienna Music Academy in 1933 . Among his teachers were Franz Schmidt , Josef Lechtaler , Vinzenz Goller and Kamillo Horn . As early as 1932, Ziegler began a career as a choirmaster with the “ Vienna Woods Boys' Choir ”. He moved to the wine town of Gumpoldskirchen, where he took over the leadership of the church choir.

After Austria was annexed to the National Socialist German Reich , he became a member of the NSDAP with effect from May 1, 1938 and was registered under the party number 6.236.005. In 1939 Ziegler composed a cycle of battle songs and hymns based on a text by Walter Zettl under the title Durch Kampf zum Sieg for youth choir and orchestra, which he dedicated to the Gauleiter and later Reich Governor Josef Bürckel and that on May 18, 1939 by the Mödling Boys' Choir from the Vienna Woods and was premiered by the Vienna Symphony Orchestra in Mödling . The work had the following parts: The time is great (hymn), Ostmark, we are calling you! , Departure , But this is the greatest time (hymn), turning point , dance of death , blood flag , fire spell , hymn to the people , last storm , flag oath , you, comrade, and me! , as well as a hymn to the homeland and to the Führer (based on a text by Hansi Kastner-Ziegler). Another composition in the sense of the Nazi era was heroic music , which was premiered on December 12, 1941.

After the Second World War, Ziegler founded a children's singing school in 1949, from which the children's choir "Anningerspatzen", later " Gumpoldskirchner Spatzen " emerged. In 1966 he founded the Gumpoldskirchner Kammerchor Vox Humana .

In addition to his profession as a music educator, Ziegler continued to devote himself to composing and received various composition prizes at home and abroad. The Austrian Federal President awarded him the professor hc title for special services to Austria's choir. Ziegler was Regens Chori throughout his life. He mainly composed sacred works, including numerous a cappella masses. Under the influence of the severe earthquake in Kobe in 1995 , he composed an "Ave Maria - Prayer for Kobe". His a cappella "Misa Tokushima-Misa per Pace" was first performed in an orchestral version in Tokushima / Japan in 2017.

Ziegler's works were relocated to Austria, Germany and Japan. His complete works are currently being published by wozimusic, his son Wolfgang's publishing house.

His two children, Elisabeth Ziegler (* 1946) and Wolfgang Ziegler (* 1949), took over the musical legacy after his death: Elisabeth heads the children's singing school, the “Gumpoldskirchner Spatzen”, and the women's ensemble “Cantilena” founded in 2006, Wolfgang since 1978 "Chamber Choir Vox Humana".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.austriaca.at/ml/musik_Z/Ziegler_Familie_2.xml
  2. ^ A b c Fred K. Prieberg : Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 , CD-Rom-Lexikon, Kiel 2004, p. 7979.
  3. ↑ Proof of further compositions from the Nazi era .
  4. ↑ Gumpoldskirchner Spatzen celebrate their "60s" ( Memento from November 11, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ http://www.vox-humana.org/main.htm
  6. ↑ http://www.gumpoldskirchnerspatzen.at/show_content2.php?s2id=23  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.gumpoldskirchnerspatzen.at  
  7. ↑ http://www.wozimusic.com/
  8. ↑ http://www.cantilena.at/show_content.php?sid=15  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.cantilena.at  
personal data
SURNAME Ziegler, Josef Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian composer and choir director
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Kottingbrunn
DATE OF DEATH February 3, 2000
Place of death Gumpoldskirchen