Fool's march
A fool's march is a composition of march music that is only played on Shrovetide. Especially in the tradition of the Swabian-Alemannic carnival , almost every place has its own fool's march. The marches are played during the fool's leaps and other public appearances of the fools. A text was written for many marches, which is then sung along by fools and the audience.
history
The Mainz “ Narrhallamarsch ” from 1840 is considered to be the first march specially arranged for Carnival; he uses motifs from a French opera.
The Rottweiler Narrenmarsch was composed in 1882 by Heinrich von Besele as probably the first special fool's march of the Swabian-Alemannic Fasnet, and was premiered on the occasion of a hall event. In 1911 the music director at the time, Sander, rediscovered it, arranged it for military music and played it for the first time in the Fool's Jump with the town band. Otto Wolf wrote a text on this in 1919. The linguistically somewhat clumsy text sums up the main features of the Rottweiler Fasnet as follows: And as long as the imperial city continues to flow blood through our veins, we celebrate Fasnacht, the carnival in all its glory. Hold up tradition, never deviate from it. Everyone's joy and nobody's pain .
In addition to specially composed marches, an existing march can also develop into a fool's march through the traditional play on carnival parades. The Altjägermarsch is a widespread way, composed as a march of the volunteer hunters from the wars of liberation from 1813 to 1815, it is still played a lot today at carnival. In Rottweil, the youth band is the only music group to intonate him to the fool's leap when they walk in front of the fool's seed. In Meersburg and Kiebingen it is known as the fool's march, in Zurich it is called the Sechseläuten march .
Examples of fools marches
- The Donaueschingen Narrenmarsch was written by Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda, who was born in Prague in 1801, and was composed in 1840 as part of an opera. Court musician Rinsler rewrote it as a march for the Princely Field Music. It wasn't until much later that he became a fool's march.
- The "Old Elzacher Narrenmarsch" probably dates from around 1900, the new Elzacher Narrenmarsch, also called "Schuttigmarsch", was played for the first time in 1911. Since the partnership, it has also been played as the "Bear March" on the carnival in the twin town of Telfs .
- The Oberndorfer Narrenmarsch was arranged after the First World War by the then town musician Karl Scharrer. The old Oberndorfer fool's sayings O jerom, o jerom, dia Fasnet hot a hole and Jetzt gangat m'r halt au gar nemme hoim served as template and text .
- The Schömberger fool's march is also the accompaniment to the fool's dance “Bolanes”. The fools dance in various formations for over an hour on the Schömberg market square. The fool's march is constantly repeated by the town band. Only at the end does the dance turn into a waltz with different music.
- The composer of the Überlingen Fool's March is unknown. The march could already date from the baroque period. On the other hand, the "foolish chatter" that can be heard at the Hänselejuck in Überlingen in three-four time, to which the Hänsele also dance, dates from the 1960s and was composed by Rudolf Siebold.
- Villinger Narromarsch
- The Villach Carnival March was composed in 1963 by Fred Clement (* 1902).
Web links
- Text of the Rottweiler fool's march
- Music of the Rottweiler Narrenmarsches (MP3 file; 3.24 MB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Winfried Hecht: Rottweil 1802-1970: From the Imperial City of the district town . 1997, p. 166
- ↑ Schömberg fools' guild
- ↑ Überlinger Narrenmusik ( Memento of the original from January 24, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
