Police music Styria

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The Police Band Styria is one founded in 2005 Concert in Styria with the seat in the State Police Styria in Graz . The current Kapellmeister is Inspector Christoph Grill.

Polizeimusik Steiermark was created in 2005 after the structural reform of the executive organs in Austria. The police and gendarmerie merged from the merger of the Graz police music , the music band of the Styrian regional gendarmerie command and the Styrian customs guard . It is a service music and for the State Police Directorate in public relations an important link between the police and the population. As a musical ambassador, she convinces her audience in various formations from smaller ensembles (brass, wooden ensembles) to the symphonic wind orchestra to the big band .

history

precursor

Music band of the Styrian State Gendarmerie Command

The music band of the State Gendarmerie Command was founded in autumn 1935 after an appeal by Lieutenant Colonel Adolf Nadler with 49 musicians under the musical direction of Georg Petz.In 1939, the gendarmerie music was disbanded and in 1948 - after the Federal Gendarmerie was re-established - again under the direction of Kapellmeister Georg Petz. Up until the merger of the music band of the Landesgendarmeriekommandos with the Graz Police Department and the Styrian Customs Guard Music for the Styrian Police Music, the musicians and later musicians framed official, religious and secular celebrations at home and abroad and also recorded different sound carriers.

Police Music Graz

Polizeimusik Graz was founded in 1920 by Josef Hexmann, who directed the musical fortunes of the band into the 1950s. He was replaced by Alfred Kreuzmann, who created a classical ball orchestra from the wind orchestra, initially composed of 25 musicians by Hexmann, which was very popular at the time.

The Graz Police Music achieved a high level of awareness at the Strauss-Lanner Waltz Evening, as the ball of the Graz Police Sports Association (PSV Graz) was called in the early years. The first ball took place on February 16, 1953, at that time still jointly organized by PSV Graz and Police Music Graz. Kreuzmann conducted his musicians with the violin, like Johann Strauss once did . One of the highlights of the Graz Police Music is the recording of the long-playing record “200 Years of the Graz Police ”, on which not only the wind orchestra but also the big band and wind ensemble can be heard. In 1995 a CD with the title Music 2000 was recorded under the direction of Kapellmeister Josef Malli . In addition, they participated in CD recordings (including 150 years of the Gendarmerie for Austria ).

Zollwachmusik Styria

When Zollwachmusik Steiermark was founded in 1957, only a few musicians appeared, but that changed quickly. The musical direction was initially taken over by Emil Turza and then by the organist and music teacher Martin Zarfl from Mureck . 1995 marked a turning point in the history of the Styrian customs guard: the border service was taken over by the federal gendarmerie, half of the active customs officers switched to the border gendarmerie . The high points in the history of customs watch music are trips abroad, including a. to Italy, Germany, France, Hungary, Yugoslavia and Switzerland, the gala concert in the Brucknerhaus in Linz and a gala concert in the Vienna Hofburg as well as numerous radio, CD and record recordings.

Police music Styria

Polizeimusik Steiermark is a member of the Styrian Brass Music Association in the Graz-Stadt music district . The first conductor of the Styrian Police Music was the former conductor of the Styrian Gendarmerie Music, Franz Kicker (2005–2008). After his retirement, his deputy Johann Ploder, former conductor of the Graz Police Music, took over the direction (2008-2013). Since May 1, 2013, the overall musical direction has been with Inspector Christoph Grill.

Almost 60 musicians are currently playing in Styrian Police Music. They provide their service in police stations throughout Styria with different areas of activity, such as foreign and border police activities, work in the state control center , administration, the traffic department or the state criminal investigation office . The active police officers are supported by those who are retired and by civilian substitutes. The weekly rehearsals take place centrally in Graz in a separate rehearsal room at the West base on Karlauer Straße.

In addition to the symphonic wind orchestra, the police music also includes a big band, a brass quintet, a clarinet and a horn ensemble. The Styrian police music provides a musical accompaniment to internal police events as well as religious and secular celebrations. The annual gala concert before Easter in Graz is one of the musical highlights. In addition to gala concerts, there are also church concerts, open-air concerts and, above all, benefit concerts on the program.

Good entertainment. For sure. is the motto of Styrian Police Music, whose top priority is professionalism and flexibility. The high musical quality standards are reflected in the repertoire, which, in addition to maintaining tradition, also seeks the surprising moment. In addition to traditional old Austrian marching and polka literature, the repertoire includes works by z. B. Carl M. Ziehrer and Johann Strauss also much contemporary, v. a. also Styrian composers like Siegmund Andraschek or Reinhard Summerer .

Concert tours took the musicians to various European countries such as B. in May 2007 to Pope Benedict XVI in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome and in May 2011 in Krakow .

Structurally, the Styrian Police Department is directly subordinate to the Public Relations Office in the Styrian State Police Directorate with the music officer Joachim Huber.

Since June 13, 2016, there has also been an association to support Styrian Police Music on a non-material, organizational, material and financial level. State Police Director Gerald Ortner acts as president of the association, and Markus Ferschli is chairman of the association.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Helmut Gebhardt: The Gendarmerie in Styria from 1850 to today . Leykam, Graz 1997.
  2. ↑ 150 years of the gendarmerie for Austria. 1999, accessed January 12, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Maximilian Ulrich: Music is in the air . In: IPA (Ed.): 50 Years IPA Austrian Section & Regional Group Styria, 21. – 24. May 2009, Graz . Gutenberg Druck, Wiener Neustadt 2009, p. 28-29 .
  4. ↑ Police Sports Association Graz: Yearbook 2017 . Aumayer, Munderfing 2017, p. 100-101 .
  5. ^ Friedrich Mulzet: Zollwache Steiermark. History, stories and fates from 1830–2004 . Zoppelberg, Sulztal 2009.
  6. ↑ Zollwachmusik Steiermark plays traditional Austrian marches. 1980, accessed January 12, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Styrian Police Music in the Graz City Music District. Retrieved January 12, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Provincial Police Directorate Styria: We're playing on 2019 - annual concert of the Styrian Police Music . In: Police Styria. The information magazine of the State Police Directorate . tape 2 . Aumayer, Munderfing 2019, p. 20 .

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