Schrammelmusik

 

 

Schrammelmusik  

(German pronunciation: [ˈʃʁaməlmuˌzik]) is  

a style of Viennese folk music originating in the late nineteenth century and still performed in Austria. The style is named for the prolific folk composers Johann and Josef Schrammel.  

1878, the brothers Johann Schrammel (1850–1893) and Josef Schrammel (1852-1895),  

musicians, violinists and composers from Vienna, Austria, formed an ensemble with guitarist Anton Strohmayer, son of the celebrated composer Alois Strohmayer.

 The Schrammel brothers played two violins, accompanied by Strohmayer on a double-necked contraguitar. 

 Inspired by both urbane and rustic traditions, the three musicians performed folk songs, marches, and dance music, most often for audiences at wine taverns (Heurigen) and inns around Vienna.  

1884 clarinetist Georg Dänzer joined the group, which soon enjoyed phenomenal success under the name "Schrammel Brothers Specialities Quartet" (Specialitäten Quartett Gebrüder Schrammel).  

The ensemble was invited to perform in palaces and mansions as "Schrammel euphoria" gripped the Viennese elite. So great was the Schrammel brothers' popularity that some earlier folk music forms, such as the Wienerlied dialect song, came to be known as Schrammelmusik as well.  

The Schrammels' popularity eventually extended throughout Europe and in 1893 they were invited to perform at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. 

A typical Schrammelmusik ensemble consists of two violins or fiddles, a double-necked contraguitar, and a G clarinet (also known in Austria as a picksüßes Hölzl). Often a button accordion, called a Schrammelharmonika, is included.

"Performers strive for a melancholy, "crying", but melodious sound. 

 The style is influenced by folk music from Austria, Hungary, Slovenia, Moravia and Bavaria."

"Several of Vienna's composers of formal music have also been Schrammelmusik enthusiasts, including  

Johann Strauss, Johannes Brahms, and Arnold Schönberg. "

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"The album Continental Cafe contains five tracks of Schrammelmusik, by a group called Wiener Konzertschrammeln.  

The record was issued by Cook Records in the 1950s and reissued by Smithsonian Folkways in 2004." 

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 'The noble family of Horrem called Schramm , also of Hornumb or of Hornum and later also of Horn called Schramm , is an old Lower Rhine noble family of knightly descent.  

The origin of the family is believed to be at the ancestral castle of Hemmersbach near Horrem .  However, the places of origin of Horr , Hoeven and Büttgen , all of which are located on the Lower Rhine, are also discussed. Branches of the family also reached Wittgenstein , Nassau and Hesse around 1600 , where the family briefly became members of the Old Hessian Knighthood around 1700." 

Before 1200, a common descent with the Lords of Hemmersbach is assumed. The first knight with the actual name of the family is recorded as "Gottfried von Horrem called Schramm", who fell in the Battle of Worringen in 1288 

The grandchildren's generation at the latest had adopted Protestantism , which had driven parts of the family to emigrate from the Catholic Rhineland to Wittgenstein, Nassau and Hesse. 

 Civilian descendants of the family, who bore only the name "Schramm", lived in Bad Berleburg , Dillenburg and Herborn . 

 The professor and theologian Johann Heinrich Schramm from Herborn came from this branch of the family 

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horrem_genannt_Schramm_(Adelsgeschlecht)

With the grandchildren's generation in Langenselbold , who all married into commoners, the traceable male line of the noble family ends.  

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7. Jeremia (Leman) Layman (abt. 1765) 

8. Jacob Lehman 1731 * Margreta Schram 1732 

9. Friedrich Wilhelm Schram 1695 

10. Johan Heinrich Schram 1667 

11. Tilman Schram 1633

12. Thomas Schram 1590 

13. Paulus VonHorn Schram 1557 

14. Wilhelm Von Horrem Schram 1509 

Pauwels Von Horrem Schram  

Mechteld Prick  

Unknown Schram 1395 

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Schram-88#Ancestors 

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Leman-392#Ancestors

 

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Leman-395

 https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/95400049/benjamin-layman  

6. Benjamin Layman 1791

(son of Jeremias "Jurri" Layman and Catharina "Tryntje" Allen ) 

 

5. Phebe “Polly” Layman Shoemaker

BIRTH 1 Sep 1822

Conesville, Schoharie County, New York, USA

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4. Ophelia A. Shoemaker Bloodgood

BIRTH 7 Jul 1844

Conesville, Schoharie County, New York, USA 

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3. Dean W. Bloodgood 

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2. Dean P. Bloodgood 

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1.FLB

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Mesa Isis Surreal Bloodgood 

(Margreta Schram 1732) 

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(On a different Note....) 

Brahms's father, Johann Jakob Brahms, was from the town of Heide in Holstein. 

 Against his family's will, Johann Jakob pursued a career in music, arriving in Hamburg at age 19. 

He found work playing double bass for jobs; he also played in a sextet in the Alster-pavilion in Hamburg's Jungfernstieg. In 1830, Johann Jakob was appointed as a horn player in the Hamburg militia. 

He married Johanna Henrika Christiane Nissen the same year. 

A middle-class seamstress 17 years his senior, she enjoyed writing letters and reading despite an apparently limited education.

Johannes Brahms was born in 1833. His sister Elisabeth (Elise) had been born in 1831 and a younger brother Fritz Friedrich was born in 1835. 

The family then lived in poor apartments in the Gängeviertel [de] quarter of Hamburg and struggled economically. 

 (Johann Jakob even considered emigrating to the United States  

when an impresario, recognizing Johannes's talent, promised them fortune there.)   

"Johann Jakob gave his son his first musical training; Johannes also learnt to play the violin and the basics of playing the cello. From 1840 he studied piano with Otto Friedrich Willibald Cossel. Cossel complained in 1842 that Brahms 

 "could be such a good player, but he will not stop his never-ending composing."

"Photograph from 1891 of the building in Hamburg where Brahms was born. It was destroyed by bombing in 1943." 

"1850 Brahms met the Hungarian violinist Ede Reményi and accompanied him in a number of recitals over the next few years. This was his introduction to "gypsy-style" music such as the csardas, which was later to prove the foundation of his most lucrative and popular compositions, the two sets of Hungarian Dances (1869 and 1880)." 

"the initials of Joachim's personal motto Frei aber einsam ("Free but lonely"). " 

"Brahms has been described as an agnostic and a humanist.The devout Catholic Antonín Dvořák wrote in a letter: "Such a man, such a fine soul – and he believes in nothing! He believes in nothing! 

 When asked by conductor Karl Reinthaler to add additional explicitly religious text to his German Requiem, Brahms is reported to have responded, "As far as the text is concerned, I confess that I would gladly omit even the word German and instead use Human" 

"The commendation of Brahms by Breslau as "the leader in the art of serious music in Germany today" led to a bilious comment from Wagner in his essay "On Poetry and Composition": 

 "I know of some famous composers who in their concert masquerades don the disguise of a street-singer one day, the hallelujah periwig of Handel the next, the dress of a Jewish Czardas-fiddler another time, and then again the guise of a highly respectable symphony dressed up as Number Ten"  

(referring to Brahms's First Symphony as a putative tenth symphony of Beethoven)."  

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'as one of the 'Three Bs'; in a letter to his wife he wrote: "You know what I think of Brahms: after Bach and Beethoven the greatest, the most sublime of all composers." 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Brahms