Karl Ganzer

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Karl Ganzer (born April 15, 1920 in Brixlegg , † January 1, 1988 in Kufstein ) was an Austrian composer. He was the lyricist of the Kufstein song ("Do you know the pearl ...").

Life

Karl Ganzer started as an apprentice at the post office in Brixlegg in 1934. In 1940 he married the 16-year-old Traudl, daughter of a South Tyrolean emigrant family, with whom he had four children (Karl, Helmut, Manfred and Margit). From 1940 to 1945 he was a soldier, most recently in the Balkans, and made his way to Tyrol on his own after the war. He lived with his family in the South Tyrolean settlement in Kufstein and initially had to make ends meet with temporary work until he found work as a bus driver at the post office again. He died of complications from biliary surgery.

The Kufstein song

Karl Ganzer was musical autodidact , who had never experienced a music education and to his death never notation wrote. The music was in his blood. At a young age he joined musicians in restaurants with his Styrian harmonica and played with them. By listening and playing, he acquired an extensive repertoire.

He used this skill in the difficult time after the war. He played, partly in a duo, partly in the group "Pendlstoana" in restaurants, especially in the "Auracher Löchl", a traditional Kufstein inn on Römerhofgasse. In 1946 he wrote - the melody had, so to speak, imposed itself while practicing on the new chromatic harmonica and could no longer get out of his head - the now world-famous Kufsteiner Lied, first played in 4/8 time, first played in public in the former Gasthof Waltl on Untere Stadtplatz 1947. At the beginning of the 1950s the song was also printed as a sheet music by Franz Friedl and recorded on record by the Kufstein yodel duo Gasser-Stadlmayr . However, the song only made its breakthrough in the early 1960s, now in ¾ - ("Schunkel") time through recordings by the "yodeler king" Franzl Lang and other well-known artists of the popular music scene, such as Maria and Margot Hellwig .

The song is one of the most widespread and most played pieces of popular music with well over 100 million records sold. In the GEMA statistics it was temporarily the number 1 of the entire offer. The song carried the name of the city of Kufstein around the world and made the “pearl of Tyrol” as a city “on the green Inn” a household name in many countries.

In July 2009 the Munich Higher Regional Court and in December 2012 the German Federal Court of Justice ruled that Ganzer is the sole creator of the song. The German music publisher and supervisory board of Gema Egon L. Frauenberger had previously registered with GEMA for a change in the yodelling part. According to the judgment of the court, he received the twelfth of the copyright fees wrongly.

Appreciation

A monument to Karl Ganzer was erected in the Römerhofgasse in Kufstein.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Mühlbauer: "Ho-La-Ro - Not Ho!" In: heise.de. Telepolis , July 24, 2009, accessed August 14, 2020 .
  2. ↑ “Kufsteiner Lied” no money for “Holla-rä-di-ri”. Süddeutsche Zeitung , May 17, 2010, accessed on August 14, 2020 .
  3. ^ Litigation over Kufsteinerlied ended. In: orf.at. December 13, 2012, accessed August 14, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Ganzer, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian composer
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Brixlegg
DATE OF DEATH January 1, 1988
Place of death Kufstein