Sepp Gmasz
Sepp Gmasz (born October 31, 1949 in Frauenkirchen ) is a Burgenland folklorist, editor and musician.
Life
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Sepp Gmasz completed a teaching degree in music education and history at the Vienna University of Music and a doctorate in folklore at the University of Vienna .
From 1975 to 1979 he was an assistant at the Institute for Folk Music Research and at the same time a lecturer at the Vienna University of Music and at the Joseph Haydn Conservatory in Eisenstadt . He worked full-time at the ORF regional studio Burgenland as head of the folk culture department. He designed numerous radio and television programs.
He also made a name for himself as a moderator and organizer of festivals and cultural initiatives in Burgenland; Examples include the “Burgenland Advent in Kittsee Castle ” (1982 to 2007) or the “Year of Folk Culture” (2004). Gmasz is the founder of the Neusiedler Stadtarchiv (1986) and editor of the “Neusiedler Jahrbuch” (since 1999).
He was chairman of the Burgenland Folk Song Works (1995–2014) and also as President of the Austrian Folk Song Works (2004–2008); in this context he was also deputy chairman of the Scientific Commission. As a songwriter he performed with his hurdy-gurdy mainly in the 1970s at various folk festivals, and as a still active musician, he leads the group “Die Buchgrabler” (since 1992).
"Sculptors in Burgenland" TV report on May 19, 2001 in ORF2 . Overall management Dr. Sepp Gmasz with cameraman Koloman Watzek, the geologist Prof. Andreas Rohatsch , z. B. in Kaisersteinbruch in the "Blauer Bruch" and over the master stonemason Elias Hügel .
Publications (excerpt)
- together with Hans Hahnenkamp: The great Burgenland brass music book , 1987, Brandstätter Verlag ISBN 3-85447-251-X .
- together with Harald Dreo, Walter Burian: A Burgenland folk song book , 1988, ISBN 3-900356-20-3 .
- together with Harald Dreo: Burgenland Volksballaden , 1997, ISBN 978-3-205-98671-3 .
- Burgenland Wirtshausliederbuch (Vol. 1 2002, Vol. 2 2009).
- Neusiedl am See. Series of archive images from Sutton Verlag. Erfurt 2010. ISBN 978-3-86680-698-6 .
- Editing of the local chronicles of Frauenkirchen , Neusiedl am See , Parndorf , Mönchhof and Winden .
- And so I hope for the new spring , memoirs of Paul Gmasz.
Compositions
- Mass for four-part choir
- Songs in the folk tone
- Dances for a small brass band
- Folk song arrangements
Awards
- Great decoration of the province of Burgenland
- Honorary citizenship in Neusiedl am See
literature
- Uwe Harten : Gmasz, Sepp. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-7001-3044-9 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Helmuth Furch : Historisches Lexikon Kaisersteinbruch, Volume 2. 2004. Index: Gmasz Sepp ( ribera-philosophie.at ; PDF, 9.5 MB).
- ↑ Book presentation by Dr. Sepp Gmasz on Friends of the Frauenkirchen Basilica dated December 11, 2015, accessed on November 15, 2017
- ^ City of Neusiedl am see: honorary citizen accessed on November 15, 2017
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gmasz, Sepp |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian folklorist, editor and musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 31, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frauenkirchen |