Bagpiper
Bagpiper on the Pfeiferbrunnen in Bern
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Bagpiper by Albrecht Dürer
Bagpipers , also bagpiper or bagpipe players, is the term for someone who has a bagpipe ( "bagpipe") plays.
Quotation from Illustrated History of German Music (1881) : The bagpiper uses the extension pipe to blow air into the hose, which he manipulates with his arm so that the air drives into the shawm attached to the hose opposite; this is provided with six or seven tone holes, which are closed or opened in order to produce tones of different heights and depths, as in the flute and similar instruments.
As early as the 13th century, the bagpiper belonged to the royal court alongside a trumpeter and a drummer .
Famous minstrels
- Marx Augustin was a bagpiper at the time of the great plague in Vienna . He was known to the population as dear Augustin . He did not reveal his real name. Augustine played in various inns. Despite the plague, many people came to hear the motto being funny again .
- Hans Gantner , King of the Minstrels in Bern 1507 (see: Pfeiferbrunnen on Spitalgasse in Bern from 1507)
- Hans Schwarz (bagpiper) , bagpiper in Appenzell, executed in 1577 as an alleged arsonist
Bagpiper in music
- The Bagpiper or Brother-in-Law Puck (1867) is a comic operetta in one act by Ludwig Anzengruber .
- Another piece of music is Rübezahl and the bagpiper from Neisse . The music was composed by Hans Sommer , the poetry by Eberhard König.
- Schwanda, the bagpiper is a Czech folk opera in 2 acts by Milo Kares, translated by Max Brod, the music was composed by Jaromír Weinberger .
Bagpiper in legend and fairy tale
- The bagpiper and the wolf near Spandau is a legend according to which a drunk bagpiper fell into a pit dug for the wolf.
- Hans my hedgehog , a fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm
- The little bagpiper , a fairy tale from the Irish fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm
literature
- Kálmán Mikszáth : Lapaj, the famous bagpiper, Zurich, Manesse-Verlag 1999, ISBN 978-3717582595 (short story)
- Ralf Gehler: bagpipers, beer fiddlers, town musicians . Thomas Helms Verlag Schwerin 2012, ISBN 978-3-940207-71-5 .
Web links
- Stephans bagpipes club with information about different types of bagpipes
- Bagpipe (musical instrument)
Individual evidence
- ^ August Reissmann: Illustrated History of German Music , Leipzig 1881, p. 94
- ↑ August Reissmann: Illustrated History of German Music , Leipzig 1881, p. 130
- ↑ Ernst Pacolt: Unser Lesehaus , Volume 11, Jugend und Volk, 1976, pp. 152–153
- ↑ Ludwig Anzengruber's Complete Works, Volume 7, pp. 217, 238 and 248
- ^ Rübezahl and the bagpiper from Neisse, music by Hans Sommer. Seal by Eberhard König , Verlag Leede, 1905.
- ^ Johann Georg Theodor Grasse: Book of sagas of the Prussian State , Volume 1, p. 89; http://www.literaturport.de/index.php?id=50&textid=-804942790&cHash=3fb90d7047ab30e570a7e465b2ce7802