Joseph Lanner

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Josef Lanner, lithograph by Josef Kriehuber , around 1825
Josef Lanner, lithograph by Josef Kriehuber , 1839
Philipp Steidler: Portrait of Joseph Lanner, around 1840
Joseph Lanner, burial place in the Vienna Central Cemetery
Monument to Johann Strauss father (left) and Joseph Lanner in Vienna's Rathauspark

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

All honor the composer with their naming.

literature

Web links

Commons : Joseph Lanner  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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
  2. ↑ 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
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