Josef Schrammel, (3 March 1852 – 24 November 1895), was an Austrian composer and musician.
He was an
illegitimate son
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of Kasper Schrammel and his later wife Alosia Ernst. Very early in his life, his father recognised the talent of Josef and sent them, despite financial hardship, to the'' Conservatory of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde'' (Society of Friends of Music in Vienna) where he received violin lessons. Later in his life, he travelled to the
Orient
The Orient is a term for the East in relation to Europe, traditionally comprising anything belonging to the Eastern world. It is the antonym of ''Occident'', the Western World. In English, it is largely a metonym for, and coterminous with, the c ...
. In 1878 Josef founded, along with his brother
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 ...
and a guitarist, a trio; the following year
Anton Strohmayer replaced the first guitarist. This eventually, with the addition of clarinetist Georg Dänzer, became the famous
Schrammel Quartet.
His grave is located in
Hernals
Hernals (; Viennese German: Hernois) is the 17th district of Vienna, Austria (german: 17. Bezirk, Hernals).
Hernals is in northwest Vienna.Statistik Austria, 2007, webpagestatistik.at-23450.
Wien.gv.at webpage (see below: References).
It was anne ...
in Vienna.
Literature
* Margarethe Egger: ''Die „Schrammeln“ in ihrer Zeit''. Heyne, München 2000, .
* Stefan Winterstein (Hrsg.): ''Josef Schrammel im Serail. Die Aufzeichnungen des Wiener Volksmusikers über seine Reise in den Vorderen Orient 1869–1871.'' Schneider, Tutzing 2007, , (''Schriftenreihe zur Musik'' 11).
* Rudolf Alexander Moißl: ''Die Schrammel-Dynastie.'' St. Pöltner Zeitungs-Verlags-Gesellschaft, St. Pölten 1943.
* Alois Böck,
Walter Deutsch: ''Das Werk der Brüder Schrammel. Einführung und Verzeichnis.'' Schneider, Tutzing 1993, , (''Schriftenreihe zur Musik'' 9).
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External links
The Schrammel Brothers
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1852 births
1895 deaths
19th-century classical composers
Musicians from Vienna
Austrian male classical composers
Austrian classical composers
19th-century male musicians