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the role and contribution of immigrant musicians to the music societies ...
1832,85 he worked as a music teacher and orchestral director. With his vocal
and violin pupils and local amateurs, he performed Weigl’s Die Schweizer
Familie, Schenk’s Dorfbarbier, Haydn and other great works. He conducted
the concerts and performances himself with the violin, as was customary
for orchestral directors at the time.86 In search of better financial situation
and a more musically stimulating environment,87 he left Celje in September
1838.88 The Lavant Music Association ceased to exist on 18 December 1846.
The remainder of its assets, including musical instruments, were donated to
the Church of St. Daniel.89
Besides church music and musical theatre, Hausmusik played an im-
portant role in the cultural life of Celje. Piano playing in private homes
must have been of a rather high level, because we know that Josef Zang-
ger (1806–1881) from Wolfsberg, director of the elementary school in Cel-
je, “preluded on the piano” (“auf dem Klavier präludierte”). Marie Lichten-
who later taught in smaller towns and villages. The association recruited its staff
also from the preparatory course at the local primary school (Hauptschule) in Celje,
which trained teacher candidates from the entire Slovenian ethnic territory and also
gave basic music lessons. The statutes of the Lavant Music Association connected the
school service with the orchestra leader (orchestral director) of the association. See:
Zajc Cizelj, “K zgodovini glasbe v Celju (1824–1866),” 306; Karl Kroner, “Simon Rud-
masch. Nekrolog,” Blätter für Erziehung und Unterricht 4, no. 1 (1858): 20–6.
85 Ignaz Orožen in his Celska kronika incorrectly states the founding year as 1836.
See: Orožen, Celska kronika, 198; Slovenski šolski muzej Ljubljana, Glavna šola
Celje, Protokol der Verordnungen in Schulsachen für die k. k. Hauptschule Cilli
von 1831 bis 1847, Fasc. 79/2, fol. 295; Zgodovinski arhiv Celje, Chronik der Cillier
Hauptschule (1777–1870), SI ZAC/0868, sig. 32/324.
86 Joseph Leitermeyer to Joseph Wagner, 24 September 1837, Personalia, Philharmon-
ische Gesellschaft, Glasbena zbirka NUK.
87 From Celje he went to Ljubljana, Bratislava and finally to Vienna, where he was an
orchestral director and soloist of the Leopolstadt Theatre and on 1 January 1840 he
opened an officially recognized Musik-Lehranstalt in Leopoldstadt, where he taught
singing, violin and violoncello. On 2 August 1842, he became an orchestral direc-
tor and soloist of the Estates Theatre and teacher at the Carinthian Music Associa-
tion in Klagenfurt, where he remained until 1847. Then he was once again the or-
chestral director of the Estates Theatre in Ljubljana and, from 1848, a violin teacher
at the Philharmonic Society. In the summer of 1845 he taught violin privately in Za-
greb. He was an honorary member of several musical societies and three of his vio-
lin compositions (Adagio und Rondino, Adagio und Polonaise, Divertissement) were
performed in Ljubljana. See: Zupančič, “The Musical Network of the Ljubljana Phil-
harmonic Society.”
88 Slovenski šolski muzej Ljubljana, Glavna šola Celje, Protokol der Verordnungen in
Schulsachen für die k. k. Hauptschule Cilli von 1831 bis 1847, Fasc. 79/2, fol. 118.
89 Slovenski šolski muzej Ljubljana, Glavna šola Celje, Protokol der Verordnungen in
Schulsachen für die k. k. Hauptschule Cilli von 1831 bis 1847, Fasc. 79/2, fol. 295.
355
1832,85 he worked as a music teacher and orchestral director. With his vocal
and violin pupils and local amateurs, he performed Weigl’s Die Schweizer
Familie, Schenk’s Dorfbarbier, Haydn and other great works. He conducted
the concerts and performances himself with the violin, as was customary
for orchestral directors at the time.86 In search of better financial situation
and a more musically stimulating environment,87 he left Celje in September
1838.88 The Lavant Music Association ceased to exist on 18 December 1846.
The remainder of its assets, including musical instruments, were donated to
the Church of St. Daniel.89
Besides church music and musical theatre, Hausmusik played an im-
portant role in the cultural life of Celje. Piano playing in private homes
must have been of a rather high level, because we know that Josef Zang-
ger (1806–1881) from Wolfsberg, director of the elementary school in Cel-
je, “preluded on the piano” (“auf dem Klavier präludierte”). Marie Lichten-
who later taught in smaller towns and villages. The association recruited its staff
also from the preparatory course at the local primary school (Hauptschule) in Celje,
which trained teacher candidates from the entire Slovenian ethnic territory and also
gave basic music lessons. The statutes of the Lavant Music Association connected the
school service with the orchestra leader (orchestral director) of the association. See:
Zajc Cizelj, “K zgodovini glasbe v Celju (1824–1866),” 306; Karl Kroner, “Simon Rud-
masch. Nekrolog,” Blätter für Erziehung und Unterricht 4, no. 1 (1858): 20–6.
85 Ignaz Orožen in his Celska kronika incorrectly states the founding year as 1836.
See: Orožen, Celska kronika, 198; Slovenski šolski muzej Ljubljana, Glavna šola
Celje, Protokol der Verordnungen in Schulsachen für die k. k. Hauptschule Cilli
von 1831 bis 1847, Fasc. 79/2, fol. 295; Zgodovinski arhiv Celje, Chronik der Cillier
Hauptschule (1777–1870), SI ZAC/0868, sig. 32/324.
86 Joseph Leitermeyer to Joseph Wagner, 24 September 1837, Personalia, Philharmon-
ische Gesellschaft, Glasbena zbirka NUK.
87 From Celje he went to Ljubljana, Bratislava and finally to Vienna, where he was an
orchestral director and soloist of the Leopolstadt Theatre and on 1 January 1840 he
opened an officially recognized Musik-Lehranstalt in Leopoldstadt, where he taught
singing, violin and violoncello. On 2 August 1842, he became an orchestral direc-
tor and soloist of the Estates Theatre and teacher at the Carinthian Music Associa-
tion in Klagenfurt, where he remained until 1847. Then he was once again the or-
chestral director of the Estates Theatre in Ljubljana and, from 1848, a violin teacher
at the Philharmonic Society. In the summer of 1845 he taught violin privately in Za-
greb. He was an honorary member of several musical societies and three of his vio-
lin compositions (Adagio und Rondino, Adagio und Polonaise, Divertissement) were
performed in Ljubljana. See: Zupančič, “The Musical Network of the Ljubljana Phil-
harmonic Society.”
88 Slovenski šolski muzej Ljubljana, Glavna šola Celje, Protokol der Verordnungen in
Schulsachen für die k. k. Hauptschule Cilli von 1831 bis 1847, Fasc. 79/2, fol. 118.
89 Slovenski šolski muzej Ljubljana, Glavna šola Celje, Protokol der Verordnungen in
Schulsachen für die k. k. Hauptschule Cilli von 1831 bis 1847, Fasc. 79/2, fol. 295.
355
