Musikkapelle Hoch- und Deutschmeister - kuk Wiener Regimentskapelle IR4
The music band Hoch- und Deutschmeister - kuk Wiener Regimentskapelle IR4 is a traditional Austrian military band .
history
Military band until 1918
The history of Austrian military music goes back to an order from Empress Maria Theresa from 1741, in which she decreed that each regiment should have its own band for troop parades . The band of the Hoch- und Deutschmeister Nr. 4 Infantry Regiment , which was stationed in Pavia at the time, had its first parade in Milan in 1741, the year it was founded, on the occasion of the birth of Joseph II.
Many military bands perished after, for reasons of economy, it was ordered that every regiment owner had to maintain his own band . The commander of the Deutschmeister Regiment, Count Anton Colloredo (Field Marshal Anton Count Colloredo-Melz and Wallsee, born November 14, 1707, † March 17, 1785 in Vienna) and his officers continued to support their chapel, so that it was preserved.
The change from a military band to a traditional band began in 1781, when Emperor Joseph II stationed the Deutschmeister in Vienna. From then on it became the favorite band of the emperor and the people and was not only used for official occasions, such as the changing of the guard, but also gave public concerts in front of the Belvedere Palace and in Schönbrunn .
The quality of the band is explained by the large number of well-known musicians in its ranks, some of whom also achieved fame as composers. The chapel included Joseph Hellmesberger , Josef Bayer , Robert Stolz , Edmund Eysler and Carl Michael Ziehrer .
Successful concert tours took the original Hoch- und Deutschmeister to the world exhibition in Chicago under Kapellmeister Ziehrer in 1893 and in 1910 Emperor Franz Joseph sent the band on a concert tour to South America under Wilhelm Wacek .
Private organization since 1918
After the end of the First World War , the band survived as a private organization through the initiative of Wilhelm Wacek under Kapellmeister Julius Herrmann and as such survived into the 21st century. While most of the remaining military bands adapted to the internationally used tuning after the war, the high and German masters kept the "high tuning" (461 Hz ), the cornett tone, which was a semitone higher . This goes back to the old field and military music, which had to be heard mainly outdoors and in the marching troops.
After Austria was annexed to Nazi Germany , the high and German masters were integrated together with the Austrian military music in the imperial German military music with their instruments and the normal mood. After the end of the Second World War , the Deutschmeister formed anew in 1945 and reintroduced the old tradition and thus the high spirits.
After Julius Herrmann's death in 1977, Anton Janosch and former music colleagues founded a new band as an association and registered it on May 3, 1977 under the name "Musikkapelle Hoch- und Deutschmeister - kuk Wiener Regimentskapelle IR4" under the ZVR number 397320513 Central register of associations . A few days later, on May 6th, Horst Winter founded the Original Hoch- und Deutschmeister . Since then there have been the “Original Hoch- und Deutschmeister” and the “Hoch- und Deutschmeister kuk Wiener Regimentskapelle IR4”, which appears as the traditional band of the Order of St. George .
The band consists of Austrian military musicians and traditional brass musicians who wear the historical uniforms of Infantry Regiment No. 4 from 1871 occur. In contrast to earlier times, it is played in "normal tuning" (432 Hz), which is intended to keep the musical quality high.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ History on deutschmeister.info , accessed on August 15, 2017