Michael Bredl

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Michael Bredl
Born(1915-12-24)24 December 1915
Volksmusik

Michael Bredl (24 December 1915 – 22 June 1999) was a German

Volksmusik musician and collector, publisher, teacher and the first Volksmusik conservator in Bavarian Swabia in the region of Allgäu.[1]

Life

Michael Bredl Michl grew up in the

. He often appeared onstage together with Pauli.

After 1945 Pauli brought Bredl as a teacher to Eggenthal near Kaufbeuren. There he founded the first rural singing and folk music school in Bavarian Swabia. In 1957, at the request of Alfred Weitnauer, who was at that time Swabian Heimatpfleger (conservator of regional traditions), Bredl was employed as a teacher in Bad Hindelang. Once again he immediately formed a group of singers and musicians to play in the regional traditional style.

The

Hindelang started to build alphorns again in the Allgäu. Bredl was the first folk musician in the Allgäu to play the alphorn again. Today an Alphorn tradition in the Allgäu has developed from that.[3] Bredl also contributed to the fact that the rare Allgäuer Scherrzither, an ancient local form of the zither that at one point in the early 20th century had only one player left being a cow shepherd in Oberstdorf
, became more widely known and played again by publishing several songsheets for it. In 1971 he conducted the first seminars on how to play the Scherrzither and the remaining recorded songs that were historically played on this instrument.

From 1965 to 1967 Bredl was the first full-time folk music custodian in Bavarian Swabia.

Krumbach
. This later became the Folk Music Counselling Office, which led Bredl until 1998.

Publishing

Music sheets

  • Volksmusik aus Schwaben. Aufgezeichnet und gesammelt vom schwäbischen Volksmusikpfleger Michael Bredl. - Musikverlag Josef Preissler, München 1966
  • D'r Hiertebue: Volksmusik aus dem schwäbisch-alemannischen Raum. 1967
  • Schwäbische Tänze für Blasmusik, zusammengest. von Michael Bredl, München 1967, 10 Stimmhefte
  • Schwäbische Tänze für Akkordeon, Zugleich Direktionsstimme zu Heft 2:Schwäbische Tänze für Blasmusik“, zusammengest. von Michael Bredl, München (1967), 30 S., nur Note
  • Das Tiroler Raffele und die Allgäuer Scherrzither. Zusammen mit Karl Horak und Volker Laturell. München, 1990

Discography

  • Sechs Schallplatten mit Volksmusik aus verschiedenen bayerischen Regionen, u.a. Schwäbische Volkslieder, herausgegeben von Michael Bredl

Awards

References

  1. ^ "Michael Bredl in Bayerisches Musiker-Lexikon". Archived from the original on 2017-12-06. Retrieved 2017-12-04.
  2. ^ "Musik im Allgäu und in Oberschwaben: Michael Bredl". Archived from the original on 2017-11-07. Retrieved 2017-11-05.
  3. ^ Thomas Niehörster: Wie das Alphorn ins Allgäu kam: die Geschichte des Alphorns. Bad Hindelang, 2012
  4. ^ Manfred Seifert, Volksmusikpflege Archived 2016-08-16 at the Wayback Machine published 13 November 2006; in: Historisches Lexikon Bayerns (13 October 2017)
  5. ^ "Heimatbund Allgäu: Ehrenpreise". Archived from the original on 2017-12-05. Retrieved 2017-12-04.
  6. ^ Georg Simnacher: Laudationes des Bezirkstagspräsidenten zur Verleihung der Ehrengabe „Schwäbische Nachtigall“ (21 June 1998 in Irsee)

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