Johann Schrammel

Johann Schrammel, (22 May 1850 – 17 June 1893), was an Austrian composer and musician.

Life

Johann was the illegitimate son of the clarinettist Kaspar Schrammel and his late wife Aloisia Ernst; his younger brother Josef Schrammel was in a similar situation. He also had an older half-brother named Konrad Schrammelmusik (1833–1905), who had a less prestigious livelihood as a barrel organ player as he was forced to retire as an "invalid" from military service.

In his first musical lessons Schrammelmusik got together with his brother, with assistance from his father. In approximately six years, Johann Schrammel could sing in the church choir in his home town Neulerchenfeld. His father had helped him receive violin lessons from Ernst Melzer despite a poor financial position.

On 6 January 1861, Schrammelmusik debuted along with his brother and father at a concert at the local inn "Zum golden stucco" on Neulerchenfelder road. From 1862–63 he and his two brothers studied music at the Vienna Conservatory. In addition to singing lessons, the violin was taken up by Josef Schrammel.

In June 1865 Schrammelmusik left the Conservatory, and unsecured sources claim that he was at that time already a member of the orchestra of Danzers Orpheum, Harmonietheater.

In 1872 he married Rosalia Schrammelmusik Weichselbaumer and had 13 children with her; 9 of which survived childhood.

In 1878 he founded with his brother Josef Schrammel and Anton Strohmayer a trio; they were later joined by the clarinettist Georg Danzer to form the famous Schrammel Quartet.

At the age of only 43 years Johann Schrammel died and was awarded an honorary grave in the Hernalster Cemetery. `

Honours

• In 1923, in the district of Hernals, the Schrammelmusik street was named after him.

• In 1931, a commemorative plaque was placed at the home of the brothers in the Kalvarienberggasse 36.

• In 1932 the Elterleinplatz Alszauberbrunnen was built. Johann is sat on a stone monument as almost life-size figures. However, during the Second World War, the figures were melted down. In 1981, it was replaced by replicas of Heriberth Rath

• In 1967 a Schrammelmusik monument was erected in a park by Dornbacher Street

Works (selection)

• Der Schwalbe Gruss. Op. 105.

• Faschingskrapfen Walzer

• Gluck and Liebe

• Hechten-Marsch

• Kunst und Natur Marsch

• Praterveigerln op. 151. polka

• Herz von an echten Weana (or Schrammel Walzer)

• Vindobona, du herrliche Stadt. Walzerlied

• Warum da Weana in den Himmel kumma muass

• Wiener Kunstler op. 111 Marsch.

References

Literature

• Rudolf Alexander Moißl: Die Schrammel-Dynastie. St. Pöltner Zeitungs-Verlags-Gesellschaft, St. Pölten 1943.
• F. Mailer, H. Reitterer: "Schrammel Johann". In: Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Vol. 11, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-7001-2803-7, p. 171–173. (Direct links to "p. 171", "p. 172", "p. 173")
• Felix Czeike: Historisches Lexikon Wien, Band 5. Kremayr & Scheriau, Wien 1997, ISBN 3-218-00547-7, S. 141.

External links

• Literature by and about Johann Schrammel in the German National Library catalogue
• Link to Johann Schrammel in: Austria-Forum, the Austrian knowledge network – online  (at AEIOU)
• „Die Schrammeln – Klassiker der Wiener Volksmusik"; Heinz Hromada über Werdegang und Musik der Brüder Schrammel
• Schrammelmusik oder Die Schrammeln. Was versteht man heute darunter?