Peter Streck

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Peter Streck (born April 23, 1797 in Gersfeld , † August 23, 1864 in Munich ) was a German composer, conductor and arranger and continued the reform of military music in Bavaria as the successor to army music director Wilhelm Legrand .

Life

Peter Streck's musical talent was noticed early on and was encouraged by his parents, as well as by the teacher and cantor . In addition to violin and cello, Peter Streck learned to play the clarinet at an early age. After graduating from high school in 1813, he studied with a scholarship at the Kgl. Music Institute of the University of Würzburg with Joseph Fröhlich figured bass and music theory and perfected the playing of the clarinet, trumpet, horn, cello and double bass. In July 1818 he joined the music corps of the 2nd Bavarian Infantry Regiment "Crown Prince" in Würzburg and soon became the deputy of the conductor, music master Johann Krisett. After his death in 1825 he was promoted to music master and took over the management of the music corps. In the same year the regiment was transferred to Munich. This started a close collaboration with army music director Wilhelm Legrand. Peter Streck tried out all the valve systems for brass instruments that were newly developed at the time and presented them to his supervisor. He also received permission to join the music corps of the Kgl. Bayer. 2. Infantry regiment to be expanded by so-called "assigned" over the prescribed line-up of 20 musicians. The music corps soon had nine clarinets, two flugelhorns, four French horns, a tenor horn, a baryton, a bombardon , four trumpets, three trombones and percussion.

The marches and especially the dances that Peter Streck composed for military music were very popular with the audience, superiors and especially King Maximilian II. He carried out an army reform . From May 1857, the music corps of all Bavarian infantry regiments received new instruments based on the cast proposal by Peter Streck. The columnist Ludwig Steub wrote as early as 1842: "We call it 'our Streck', it is as dear to us as Johann Strauss [father] is to his Viennese."

After Wilhelm Legrand's death in 1845, Peter Streck was appointed as his successor and appointed chief musician. His actual sphere of activity was limited to the Munich garrison , but Peter Streck worked far beyond Munich. He let his compositions appear in self-publishing; he was the first publisher to print parts for every wind instrument, which saved the musicians from copying from the score . It was thanks to Peter Streck's reputation as a popular composer that King Maximilian II chose him for his plan for the “popular reform of military music”. In an ordinance of 1859, the king advised the music masters to use “real Bavarian folk and soldier songs” for the trio when composing new marches. The king had previously forbidden to use marches based on motifs from Italian or French operas in parades.

Peter Streck summarized the sum of his rich experience as a conductor and music teacher in a concise practical guide to military music , which he dedicated to his teacher Joseph Fröhlich in 1861. In the summer of 1864, while rehearsing a concert with works by Richard Wagner , Peter Streck had a stroke from which he never recovered.

Discography

  • Dances and marches by Peter Streck. The Bavarian Brass Quartet, Bogner Records 1994.

literature

  • Hubert Unverricht: The military musician Peter Streck (1797–1864). In: Music in Bavaria. Issue 33, 1986, p. 6 ff.
  • Robert Münster: King Ludwig II and music. Rosenheim 1980, ISBN 978-3-475-52293-2 , p. 66 f.

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personal data
SURNAME Streck, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1797
PLACE OF BIRTH Gersfeld
DATE OF DEATH 23 August 1864
Place of death Munich