English version of the video description (Jacob Philipp) Adolph Scherzer is one of those composers who gained fame by means of a single piece, one that (at least in Bavaria) everybody knows -- even though most might struggle to name its author. On the one hand this is unfair, since someone capable of writing something like this no doubt possessed great talent, which his other, forgotten works must reflect too. On the other hand this march is anything but forgotten. Indeed in Bavaria it has advanced to the status of a kind of second state anthem, after the official one (heard here in a rather pretty government propaganda video: ruclips.net/video/CR8L_XKDPg8/видео.html -- no, I'm not currently planning an organ version...) It has become customary in Bavaria that when the minister president (head of government) visits, the local band will strike up this march ( ruclips.net/video/w4Vtqslkrcs/видео.html ). It is also heard before home matches of the football club, FC Bayern München ( ruclips.net/video/la9MtXMEdCI/видео.html ), and at the annual Oktoberfest the mayor of Munich is expected to "conduct" it (2013: ruclips.net/video/W0D1BZKFkjg/видео.html , 2023: ruclips.net/video/8Ei3_Zw5SQQ/видео.html). Scherzer, a Lutheran from the former Franconian possessions of the Hohenzollern dynasty, was not exactly a Bavarian archetype. Before 1806 his birthplace, the town of Neustadt an der Aisch, was governed from Berlin as part of the Hohenzollern dominions. In the 18th century members of the Scherzer family held the office of town wait at Erlangen and Ansbach. Johann Christoph Scherzer (1776-1832), from Ansbach, was a trumpeter with the Prussian garrison at Neustadt before becoming the town wait and "türmer" (tower watchman) there in 1807. (The latter post was better paid by far, perhaps because the town wait would be remunerated for the individual engagements of his band. In the local paper he advertised "musical evening entertainments" at public houses. Also I would be surprised if he actually kept the nightly fire watch himself. Presumably he had staff for that too. I suspect that in both capacities he may have been a kind of licensed entrepreneur.) According to the entry in the parish ledger, the godfathers for the fourth child from Johann Christoph's third marriage, born in 1815, were both from Ansbach: the municipal director of music, whom the ledger calls Philipp Adolph Scherzer, and Jacob, third son of the Ansbach town wait (the original entry is quoted in the German version). The first-named of the two, an elder brother (1775-1828) of Johann Christoph, was in charge of the music at both of the Lutheran town parish churches at Ansbach. His position was distinct from that of the "town organist" at Ansbach, listed separately in an 1820 address book for the area. In the address book the stadtkantor (municipal director of music) appears as Adolph Philipp, which seems to be the correct form: in the Neustadt ledger entry his first names are given in the wrong order. Adolph Philipp's son Otto Scherzer (1821-86) -- a cousin, thus, of the child to be baptised at Neustadt -- was to succeed Johann Georg Herzog ( ruclips.net/p/PLJQG183QhFpC1qxaPnA83bWiMcOY5YL1z ) as organist and choirmaster of the Lutheran parish church in Munich and professor at the conservatory there in 1854, before becoming director of music of Tübingen University (where he succeeded Friedrich Silcher) in 1860. Otto Scherzer left organ works, of which one or more might some day find their way onto this channel ( is.gd/fP6S09 ; I prophylactically bought them). Other relatives of the babe-in-arms at Neustadt would also gain renown as musicians, though it was in the field of light music. The second godfather, likewise a brother of Johann Christoph, must be the Johann Jacob Scherzer that the aforementioned address book of 1820 lists as the municipal tower watchman at Ansbach. No doubt that meant he was also the town wait, just like Johann Christoph at Neustadt and like Abraham Georg Peter Scherzer, the father of Johann Christoph, Adolph Philipp and Johann Jacob. He, the grandfather, is the town wait at Ansbach to whom the ledger entry refers without giving his first names; he died in 1819. As his two elder sons were already provided for -- Adolph Philipp as Ansbach's director of music, Johann Christoph as town wait in Neustadt -- Johann Jacob, being, as the ledger tells us, the "third son", inherited his father's position in Ansbach. As was the custom at that time the newborn child was given the names of the godfathers (in the ledger entry: Jacob Philipp Adolph; throughout his life Adolph Scherzer stuck to the spelling with ph). Already in 1810 the whole area had become part of the Kingdom of Bavaria. It was, thus, in the Bavarian military that young Adolph was to make his career -- true to the family tradition, as a musician. a_osiander(at)gmx.net . andreas-osiander.net . facebook.com/andreas.osiander
English version of the video description
(Jacob Philipp) Adolph Scherzer is one of those composers who gained fame by means of a single piece, one that (at least in Bavaria) everybody knows -- even though most might struggle to name its author. On the one hand this is unfair, since someone capable of writing something like this no doubt possessed great talent, which his other, forgotten works must reflect too. On the other hand this march is anything but forgotten. Indeed in Bavaria it has advanced to the status of a kind of second state anthem, after the official one (heard here in a rather pretty government propaganda video: ruclips.net/video/CR8L_XKDPg8/видео.html -- no, I'm not currently planning an organ version...)
It has become customary in Bavaria that when the minister president (head of government) visits, the local band will strike up this march ( ruclips.net/video/w4Vtqslkrcs/видео.html ). It is also heard before home matches of the football club, FC Bayern München ( ruclips.net/video/la9MtXMEdCI/видео.html ), and at the annual Oktoberfest the mayor of Munich is expected to "conduct" it (2013: ruclips.net/video/W0D1BZKFkjg/видео.html , 2023: ruclips.net/video/8Ei3_Zw5SQQ/видео.html).
Scherzer, a Lutheran from the former Franconian possessions of the Hohenzollern dynasty, was not exactly a Bavarian archetype. Before 1806 his birthplace, the town of Neustadt an der Aisch, was governed from Berlin as part of the Hohenzollern dominions. In the 18th century members of the Scherzer family held the office of town wait at Erlangen and Ansbach. Johann Christoph Scherzer (1776-1832), from Ansbach, was a trumpeter with the Prussian garrison at Neustadt before becoming the town wait and "türmer" (tower watchman) there in 1807. (The latter post was better paid by far, perhaps because the town wait would be remunerated for the individual engagements of his band. In the local paper he advertised "musical evening entertainments" at public houses. Also I would be surprised if he actually kept the nightly fire watch himself. Presumably he had staff for that too. I suspect that in both capacities he may have been a kind of licensed entrepreneur.)
According to the entry in the parish ledger, the godfathers for the fourth child from Johann Christoph's third marriage, born in 1815, were both from Ansbach: the municipal director of music, whom the ledger calls Philipp Adolph Scherzer, and Jacob, third son of the Ansbach town wait (the original entry is quoted in the German version).
The first-named of the two, an elder brother (1775-1828) of Johann Christoph, was in charge of the music at both of the Lutheran town parish churches at Ansbach. His position was distinct from that of the "town organist" at Ansbach, listed separately in an 1820 address book for the area. In the address book the stadtkantor (municipal director of music) appears as Adolph Philipp, which seems to be the correct form: in the Neustadt ledger entry his first names are given in the wrong order.
Adolph Philipp's son Otto Scherzer (1821-86) -- a cousin, thus, of the child to be baptised at Neustadt -- was to succeed Johann Georg Herzog ( ruclips.net/p/PLJQG183QhFpC1qxaPnA83bWiMcOY5YL1z ) as organist and choirmaster of the Lutheran parish church in Munich and professor at the conservatory there in 1854, before becoming director of music of Tübingen University (where he succeeded Friedrich Silcher) in 1860. Otto Scherzer left organ works, of which one or more might some day find their way onto this channel ( is.gd/fP6S09 ; I prophylactically bought them). Other relatives of the babe-in-arms at Neustadt would also gain renown as musicians, though it was in the field of light music.
The second godfather, likewise a brother of Johann Christoph, must be the Johann Jacob Scherzer that the aforementioned address book of 1820 lists as the municipal tower watchman at Ansbach. No doubt that meant he was also the town wait, just like Johann Christoph at Neustadt and like Abraham Georg Peter Scherzer, the father of Johann Christoph, Adolph Philipp and Johann Jacob. He, the grandfather, is the town wait at Ansbach to whom the ledger entry refers without giving his first names; he died in 1819. As his two elder sons were already provided for -- Adolph Philipp as Ansbach's director of music, Johann Christoph as town wait in Neustadt -- Johann Jacob, being, as the ledger tells us, the "third son", inherited his father's position in Ansbach.
As was the custom at that time the newborn child was given the names of the godfathers (in the ledger entry: Jacob Philipp Adolph; throughout his life Adolph Scherzer stuck to the spelling with ph). Already in 1810 the whole area had become part of the Kingdom of Bavaria. It was, thus, in the Bavarian military that young Adolph was to make his career -- true to the family tradition, as a musician.
a_osiander(at)gmx.net . andreas-osiander.net . facebook.com/andreas.osiander
This is certainly great fun Andreas and makes a change from your usual repertoire.
Thank you David. It's certainly different. It shows the versatility of the instrument :-)
Very jolly & played with admirable tidiness too! Thanks a lot, Andreas!
Thank you Jet! The left hand part and the pedal part have different rhythms, which are a bit tricky to get right throughout without stumbling.
@@einervonweitem Rather you than me, Andreas!!