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The Zillertaler Tramplan (also Mayrhofer Tanz or Zillertaler Wedding March ) is a violin polka with a fast-paced, straight-beat melody that originated from Tyrolean folk music and was originally only passed down orally . The piece was saved from being forgotten by the Viennese folklorist and musicologist Karl Horak . However, the piece only became internationally known in the early 1990s through the interpretation of the Zillertaler Schürzenjäger , which became a great success under the title "Zillertal Wedding March " . Since then, the piece has been part of the repertoire of numerous folk and pop bands and is played at almost all beer tent festivals.

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The exact origin of this instrumental piece is unknown. However, this form of melody has been known under the name Tramplan since the late 18th century and was a popular civil ballroom dance in the 19th century. The word Tramplan is derived from the French name “Polka tremblante” , a shaky polka mostly played by violins, with a fast, pounding rhythm . In the 19th century, this urban fashion also spread to rural regions, where it was modified in many different ways by the local musicians.

At that time the Zillertal was a very impoverished region. The silver mining of the Middle Ages and the early modern period was largely stopped because of the declining yield. The later tourism as a source of income did not yet exist. So many Zillertal people traveled as hawkers , craftsmen and peddlers through the Austrian states, southern Germany and northern Italy. As an early form of advertising and door openers, they usually had their instruments with them and played popular melodies. In doing so, they repeatedly took on musical influences from the areas they traveled on foot. Today it is no longer possible to determine whether this melody was created in Tyrol or whether it was brought there by traveling Tyrolean musicians.

The first handwritten record of the piece by Hans Wurm with the title: "Tramplano der Hupfende - ha ha" dates from 1902.

A later recording was made by the folk music researcher and grammar school teacher Karl Horak (1910–1992) from Vienna, who found a job in Kufstein in 1932 and from then on began to research, record and publish Tyrolean folk music. The person who conveyed this melody to Horak, who was soon to be known as the “Professor” all over the country, is now considered to be the musician Hans Wurm - commonly known as “Millacher” (1876–1955) - from Hart in the Zillertal valley. There is a written record of the melody of this from 1902. In 1956 the song was recorded on the initiative of Horak. The string quartet Aschenwald performed the piece under the direction of Johann Aschenwald vulgo "Schotter Hansl" from Mayrhofen in the Zillertal. As a thank you, each musician received a goulash and a beer. This recording subsequently achieved modest local fame and was played in various folk music programs on Radio Tirol . In the 1970s the piece was played for the first time on Bavarian Radio television by the Höllwarth family from Stummerberg in the Zillertal, known as "Hausmusik Jägerklause" . A second television performance took place in 1975 on the BR program "Music from the Mountains". The piece remained little known and was only one of many folk music melodies. From the early 1970s, however, the Cologne carnival song "Loss mer jett nar Nippes jon, in Nippes get me fun" by Rolf Dietmar Schuster, whose melody is strikingly similar to the Zillertal tram plan. Whether the composer got his inspiration for this from a performance by the Jägerklause house music or a holiday in Tyrol is no longer understandable.

However, the Tramplan only gained greater fame when the melody was discovered by the Zillertal Schürzenjäger in the mid-1980s and added to their repertoire. In 1987 she played the violin polka, renamed “Zillertal Wedding March ” , on television for the first time, first at the Musikantenstadl in Perg, and then in autumn this year at the Stadl in the Munich Olympic Hall . The wedding march finally became a big hit in 1992 when it appeared on the album Zillertaler Schürzenjäger '92 . From then on, the melody became a beer tent hit in the entire German-speaking area and a fixed point in the Schürzenjäger program. At her concerts she played the melody in different variations, mostly interpreted in a more modern way in the direction of rock and hits .

Proponents of traditional folk music were bothered by the modern interpretation of the Schürzenjäger and the numerous cover versions of other bands.

The Bayern Munich used the song as a goal celebration.

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  1. ↑ published in the magazine of the Tiroler Volksmusikverein "g'sungen und g'spiele" from September 2011; published as printed sheet music in the two-part sheet music edition "Zillertaler Tänze aus der Handschrift Hans Wurm 'Millacher'" (= from the Tyrolean Folk Song Archive, Issues 3/1 and 3/2), Tiroler Landesmuseen / Tiroler Volksliedarchiv, Innsbruck 2016
  2. ↑ Sheet music of this piece from 1902, title: "Tramplano der Hupfende - ha ha"

Thomas Nussbaumer: "Looking for traces ... The legendary Zillertal folk musician Hans Wurm vlg. 'Mühlacher' (1877-1955) and the 'Zillertaler Tramplan'", in: Yearbook of the Austrian Folk Song Works 61 (2012), pp. 160–171

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