Simon Krannig
Simon Krannig (born November 19, 1866 in Lauchröden , † December 11, 1936 in Zurich ) was a Swiss industrialist, composer and choir director of German descent.
Life
Simon Krannig was born on November 19, 1866 in Lauchröden (today municipality of Gerstungen , Wartburgkreis , Thuringia ). Already in his early youth he learned to play the organ from a Lauchröder teacher. In 1891, after years of wandering as a journeyman carpenter, he found a permanent home in Zurich . Krannig was an active member of the Zurich workers' choir for 32 years, later its director and deputy director of the church choir St. Peter Krannig died on December 11, 1936 in Zurich.
Works
Krannig is the composer of 117 songs for male, female and mixed choirs. In 1908, based on the text of the poem Mine Heimat by Martha Müller-Grählert, he composed his best-known song today, the Ostseewellenlied , which became popular in the 1920s in a variation as the North Sea waves or Friesian song .
Honors
On the eve of the composer's 145th birthday, a program evening under the title A song goes around the world took place in his birthplace Lauchröden .
Web links
- Works by Simon Krannig in the catalog of the German National Library
- Portrait on dradio.de
- On the history of the Ost- or North Sea wave song
Individual evidence
- ^ Neue Zürcher Zeitung , No. 2178 of December 14, 1936 (Morgenblatt)
- ^ Rehfeld, Claus Stephan: The distance and the home - the composer Simon Krannig, Thuringia and the term home; broadcast in the country report by Deutschlandradio Kultur on November 18, 2011 at 13:07
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| SURNAME | Krannig, Simon |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss industrialist, composer and choir director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 19, 1866 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leek rotting |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 11, 1936 |
| Place of death | Zurich |