Romano H. Zölss

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Romano H. Zölss (* 1940 in Vienna as Roman H. Zölss ; † December 10, 2016 ) was an Austrian organ and tamburica maker .

Life

Romano H. Zölss was born in Vienna in 1940. After the air raids on Vienna during the Second World War , he and his parents first fled to a farm in Upper Austria before the family settled in Vienna again. In 1957 he graduated from the Stubenbastei grammar school in Vienna's 1st district, Innere Stadt . He then began studying electrical engineering , which he dropped out after four semesters.

After practicing various professions, Zölss decided to become a master organ builder in the late 1960s. After receiving his master craftsman's certificate , he moved to Burgenland and founded an organ workshop in Frankenau in 1971 , a district of Frankenau-Unterpullendorf since that same year . From the very beginning, organ restorations were regularly commissioned from him. For example, in 1973 he restored the organ in the parish church of Wimpassing an der Leitha from 1757 and the organ in the parish church of Hornstein from around 1780 , which he restored again in 2000. In addition to the repair and construction of organs, he also dealt with other instruments such as the spinet , zinc and various types of flutes , especially in the early days .

In 1977 he restored, among other things, the organ built by Johann Rath from Ödenburg in 1762 in the Maria Loretto basilica in Burgenland . In 1990 Zölss carried out restoration work on the 18th century organ in the parish church of Breitenbrunn . A decade later he also restored the organ that Jacob Deutschmann had built in 1819 in the parish church of Winden am See . Also in 2000 he created - according to his own statement - after a year of research, the first tamburica built in Burgenland , which was played for the first time on March 1, 2000. His research took him through Austria and Croatia, where he learned at various training centers and from various masters. After that he also appeared more and more as a tamburica maker, where he stated that it took about a month to build an instrument.

Other organs on which Zölss carried out restoration or repair work are the organs of the Rumpersdorf branch church (1972), the Gustav Adolf Church in Vienna-Mariahilf (from 1976), the Deutsch Schützen parish church (1976), the castle chapel of the castle Schlaining in Stadtschlaining (1981), the parish church Münsteuer (1990/91), the Catholic parish church Großpetersdorf (1992), the branch church St. Johann am Kirchberg (1992), the Catholic parish church Stadtschlaining (1993), the Evangelical parish church Unterschützen (1993) , the branch church of St. Nikolaus in Torren (1994), the Catholic parish church in Bernstein in Burgenland (1997), the Catholic parish church in Gasen (1998), or the subsidiary church St. Lorenzen am Autersberg (2011).

In 1973/1974 Zölss was contacted regarding the restoration of the organ in the Martinskirche in Aspern, but was not commissioned with the restoration due to an excessive price in the cost estimate.

Zölss was involved in several symposia; Among other things in 2003, when he spoke in Großwarasdorf about The Tamburizza from the perspective of the musical instrument maker.

In 1988 Josef Weidlinger, who is also based in Frankenau, founded the Chor-Tamburica-Frankenau ( Zbor-Tamburica-Frakanava ) under the name of Mišani zbor Frakanava . Zölss was one of the early members of this association and took over its leadership as a conductor in the 1990s . He gave up the leadership several times over the years, but kept returning to the top of the music association.

His friends included the writer, radio play author, poet, painter and translator from Czech Jan Rys (1931–1986).

From about 1998 until shortly before his death played Zölss in the World Music grouping farstejstu , named after a Yiddish song, where he primarily on the bass played. The group also included the ceramist Peter Alten , who came from Burgenland . He was once one of the early members of the Camerata Pannonica , an international chamber orchestra that sees itself as the first Burgenland ensemble for Renaissance music and of which he was the initiator. Furthermore, was an active and leading member of various music associations.

In 2003 Zölss retired. Zölss , who spoke fluent Burgenland- Croatian, died on December 10, 2016 at the age of 76 after a long and serious illness. In addition to Burgenland- Croatian and his mother tongue German , he also mastered Italian , French , Russian and Croatian and had a basic knowledge of Yiddish.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d majstor Romano Zölss (Croatian), accessed on October 1, 2019
  2. ↑ a b Romano Zölss per 75 ljet star (Croatian), accessed on October 1, 2019
  3. ↑ Graduates of the Stubenbastei Gymnasium , accessed on October 1, 2019
  4. ↑ a b c d The most beautiful organs in Burgenland in the OrgelDatenBank by Karl Schütz, accessed on October 1, 2019
  5. ↑ Master Romano Zölss , accessed on October 1, 2019
  6. ↑ Tamburica sales , accessed October 1, 2019
  7. ↑ a b c d e Organs in the Oberwart District - An inventory (2000) , accessed on October 1, 2019
  8. ↑ Festschrift on the occasion of the consecration of the restored Carl Hesse organ , accessed on October 1, 2019
  9. ↑ a b c organs in south-east Austria , accessed on October 1, 2019
  10. ↑ a b PRINCIPAL No. 1 , accessed on October 1, 2019
  11. ↑ PRINCIPAL No. 15 , accessed on October 1, 2019
  12. ^ Laurentius Rosenegger Promptus Aritmeticus in Monte Turano, nec non Mechanicus, et Organiarius hoc valde destructum Organum â Fundamentis Restauravit Anno 1760. Aetatis mea 52 Annorum . In: Romano H. Zölss: Report on our restoration work on the organ positive in the Roman Catholic. Filial church St. Nikolaus zu Torren, Gem. Golling, Slbg. , Frankenau (Burgenland) 1994, p. 5. Quoted from: Roman Schmeißner: Orgelbau in Salzburger Wallfahrtskirchen , p. 25 and 322.
  13. ↑ a b Historic organs in the upper Feistritztal , accessed on October 1, 2019
  14. ↑ PRINCIPAL No. 6 , accessed on October 1, 2019
  15. ^ History of organ building in St. Martin-Aspern - The Aspern organ in the 20th century , accessed on October 1, 2019
  16. ↑ Ursula Hemetek / Gerhard Winkler (ed.): Music of the Burgenland Croats / Muzika Gradišcanskih Hrvatov. Lectures at the international workshop symposium, Großwarasdorf 7. – 9. November 2003 (= scientific papers from Burgenland, 110). Office of the Burgenland Provincial Government - State Museum, Eisenstadt 2004. Accessed October 1, 2019
  17. ↑ a b Chor-Tamburica-Frankenau - HISTORY OF THE ASSOCIATION , accessed on October 1, 2019
  18. ↑ a b Letters to a Dead Friend , accessed October 1, 2019
  19. ↑ FARSTEJSTU on kaernoel.at, accessed on October 1, 2019
  20. ↑ tone by tone . In: THE BRIDGE . No. 98 . Klagenfurt June 2009, p. 5 , top center ( kulturchannel.at [PDF; 20.5 MB ; accessed on October 10, 2019]).
  21. ↑ a b c Organ builder Romano Zölss died , accessed on October 1, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Zölss, Romano H.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zölss, Roman H.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian organ and tamburica maker
DATE OF BIRTH 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria
DATE OF DEATH December 10, 2016