Joseph Lanner
Joseph Lanner (born April 12, 1801 in Sankt Ulrich near Vienna ; † April 14, 1843 Döbling near Vienna) was an Austrian composer and violinist . Alongside Johann Strauss (father), he is considered to be the one who made the Viennese waltz popular .
Life
Joseph Lanner was born in the house at Mechitaristengasse 5 in the Neubau (7th district of Vienna). Very little is known about his beginnings as a musician. He began composing dance pieces as a child. He began his musical career after completing his training as an engraver as a violinist. At the age of 12 he joined the orchestra of his teacher Michael Pamer , where he later joined Johann Strauss sen. got to know whose longtime friend, but also his musical competitor, he was to become. He later led an orchestra that had emerged from a trio he founded.
In 1829 he was appointed music director of the Redoute ; a short time later he also took on the direction of the Vienna regimental band. Several positions followed as music director in various hotels.
Joseph Lanner was a very prolific composer. The number of his compositions is in the hundreds. His musical heritage mainly includes waltzes , landlords , gallops , potpourris and dances as well as marches . For the first time, the typical structure that was to become characteristic of the Viennese waltz can be found in his compositions . His most famous waltzes are the Pesther Walzer , Die Werber , Die Hofballtänze and Die Schönbrunners . He counted next to Johann Strauss senior. to the outstanding dance bandmasters of Vienna of his time.
Joseph Lanner was married to Franziska Jahns from 1828. Her children were the dancer Katharina Lanner , the composer August Lanner and the equally gifted Franziska Karoline Lanner (1836-1853), who died early. Lanner, who was divorced from his wife on September 21, 1842, lived with the Viennese butcher's daughter Marie Kraus from around 1838. His posthumous son Joseph Carl Maria Kraus was born on October 6, 1843 in Oberdöbling .
Lanner died on Good Friday , April 14, 1843, at the age of 42 of typhus in the house at Gymnasiumstrasse 87 in Währing (18th district). His remains were first buried in the old Döblinger cemetery in Oberdöbling , which was later abandoned (today “Strauss-Lanner-Park”). After their exhumation , they and those of Strauss-Vater were reburied next to each other on June 13, 1904 in the Vienna Central Cemetery (group 32 A, number 16; Strauss: number 15) in graves of honor . Lanner's tomb was designed by the kuk court stonemason, Sommer & Less . The old gravestones of Lanner and Strauss-Vater were included in the design of the Strauss-Lanner Park, which opened in 1928 in place of the cemetery .
In 1894, Lannerstraße in Vienna-Döbling (19th district) was named after him.
Works (selection)
waltz
- Aeskulapian Waltz, for the piano forte for four hands op.113 (1837)
- The Schönbrunn op. 200
- Die Werber op.103
- The Mozartists op.196
- Separation Waltz op.19
- Coronation Waltz
- The Kosenden
- Evening Stars op.180
- Steam Waltz and Gallop op.94
- Wedding waltz
- Flowers of lust
- The Neapolitans
- Court Ball Dances op.161
- Pesther Waltz op.93
- Mille Fleurs
- The swimmers
- Prometheus spark
- Grätzer Waltz
Lander
- Dornbacher Länders op.9
- Parish fair
- Flower festival
Gallop
- Hollabrunner
- Carrière
Potpourris
- Capriciosa
- Musical revue
- The unleashed imagination
- Musical travel images
Works with melodies by Joseph Lanner
- Alt-Wien , an operetta in three acts based on music by Joseph Lanner, compiled and edited by Emil Stern, premiered at the Vienna Carltheater on December 23, 1911.
Honors
- In Dresden there is a Lannerstraße and
- Lannerweg in Hanover , Misburg-Nord district, which was laid out in 2001 .
- In 1948, Lannerstrasse in the Nymphenburg district of Munich was named after the composer
All honor the composer with their naming.
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Lanner, Joseph . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 14th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1865, pp. 134–141 ( digitized version ).
- Robert Eitner : Lanner, Joseph . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, p. 698 f.
- Theophil Antonicek : Lanner, Joseph. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1972, p. 15 f. (Direct links on p. 15 , p. 16 ).
- Ernst Hilmar : Lanner, Joseph. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 619 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Wolfgang Dörner: Joseph Lanner. Chronological-thematic catalog raisonné . Böhlau, Vienna, 2012, ISBN 978-3-205-78793-8 .
- Otto Brusatti: Joseph Lanner, composer, entertainer & musical genius . Böhlau, Vienna, 2001, ISBN 3-205-99081-1 .
Web links
- Entry on Joseph Lanner in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
- Works by and about Joseph Lanner in the catalog of the German National Library
- Joseph Lanner Society Vienna
- Strauss-Lanner-Park
- Sheet music and audio files by Joseph Lanner in the International Music Score Library Project
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael Lorenz : Family Trampusch - loved and hushed up . Lecture on March 9, 2004 at the “Dance Signals” symposium of the Vienna Institute for Strauss Research. Published in: Yearbook of the Association for the History of the City of Vienna , Vol. 62/63, (2006/2007), Association for the History of the City of Vienna, Vienna 2011, pp. 135–49. Essay online
- ↑ Helmut Zimmerman : Hanover's street names - changes since 2001 , In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series Volume 57/58, 2003/2004, pp. 277–286; here: p. 281
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Lanner, Joseph |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian composer and violinist |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 12, 1801 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Sankt Ulrich (Vienna) |
DATE OF DEATH | April 14, 1843 |
Place of death | Dobling |