Michael Bredl | |
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| Born | (1915-12-24)24 December 1915 |
| Died | 22 June 1999(1999-06-22) (aged 83) |
| Occupation(s) | teacher, musician |
| Known for | Interpret and collector of traditional GermanVolksmusik |
Michael Bredl (24 December 1915 – 22 June 1999) was a GermanVolksmusik musician and collector, publisher, teacher and the first Volksmusik conservator inBavarian Swabia in the region ofAllgäu.[1]
Michael Bredl Michl grew up in theBavarian Forest, inLower Bavaria. The family with 13 children sang and played music together a great deal. In 1931 there was the first Lower Bavarian youth singing competition inLandshut and Bredl won the first prize together with two of his brothers. Since this timeKiem Pauli has been promoting the Bredl brothers and a lifelong friendship has developed since then.[2] Michael Bredl was a singer and played virtuosozither, in addition to violin,wind instruments andpiano. He often appeared onstage together with Pauli.
After 1945 Pauli brought Bredl as a teacher toEggenthal nearKaufbeuren. There he founded the first rural singing and folk music school in Bavarian Swabia. In 1957, at the request ofAlfred 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.
TheAlphorn had not been played in or associated with theAllgäu for generations until in 1958 when Bredl discovered the alphorn on old motifs from the Allgäu. This proved that the Alphorn had existed in the Allgäu region at some point in the past. In 1960 the brothers Albert and Herbert Wechs fromHindelang 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 thezither that at one point in the early 20th century had only one player left being a cow shepherd inOberstdorf, 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.[4] He was released from teaching. He systematically collected and published Swabian folk music. Thus theVolksmusik archive of Swabia was created inKrumbach. This later became the Folk Music Counselling Office, which led Bredl until 1998.
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