Dominik Ertl: Hoch und Deutschmeister, Marsch, (Op.41?)

Dominik Ertl (1857-1911), was an Austrian Musician, Composer and later, conductor.
Born in Vienna in 1857 he studied music with Heissler, Dont and most famous of them all Anton Bruckner, he traveled to Germany as a violin concertist.

Sometimes after his travel to Germany, when he was also young he joined the Hoch und Deutschmeister regiment of the Austrian army, where he became the ''Tambour'' of the Regiment and after he became Kapellmeister of the Hoch- and Deutschmeister-Regiment that also stationed from 1882 to 1893 in Vienna.

There he composed the march probably more precisely in 1886-1887, then his popularity grew and he became conductor in 1889 in Danzers Orpheum in Vienna and from around 1893 he became a concert conductor in Riga.

He probably at the same time toured several European countries with an orchestra of his own and finally accepted an engagement in Dresden.
But He later returned to his native Vienna where he worked, played music, and composed, until his death he died there in 1911 at 53 years old, two months before his 54th birthday of Unknown Causes.

He composed more than 200 pieces, of light music also a lot of couplets, and his music is almost totally forgotten and needs to be rediscovered, the only famous piece that is more known than the composer himself, the piece reflects the name of the regiment, and is one of the popular march pieces which fame lives until today.

Ertl pieces certainly deserve to be discovered, as well as more informations about his life, like many composer of the time was obscured by not only the Strausses, but especially the composers, bandmasters and friends; Carl Michael Ziehrer (1843-1922) and Karel Komzak II (1850-1905).

Performers

Conductor: Herbert Von Karajan
Orchestra: Berlin Philarmonic Wind Esemble


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Good listening by MikoNatt!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTJB7qIB9sM