He was one of the most famous representatives of Bavarian brass music.
Otto Schwarzfischer has now died at the age of 81.
An obituary.
Moosburg
- As Georg Ried heard from his brass music broadcast on BR Heimat on May 1st, one of the most famous representatives of Bavarian brass music died on April 30th of this year.
It is the talk of Kapellmeister Otto Schwarzfischer, who with his Oktoberfest band of the same name in the Schottenhamel tent at the Munich Oktoberfest has become an indispensable part of this largest festival in the world.
But you could also meet him with his festival band at numerous other folk festivals all over Bavaria - as a guarantee for high-quality festival tent entertainment music.
He was a pioneer for a wide range of applications for brass music - from traditional marching music to polkas and hits to operettas and the big band sound.
An integral part of public festivals in the Freising district
Also at the Moosburg folk festivals with the landlords Toni Huber and Max Stuhlmann - especially in the 1970s, 80s and 90s - he was mostly represented for at least two days to catch both the autumn show and spring festival visitors and his brass band friends with Sang and sound to delight.
It was also an integral part of the Freising Folk Festival as well as the spring and Bartlmä-Dult in Landshut.
Otto Schwarzfischer, born on November 12, 1939 in Innsbruck and at home in Vohburg in the district of Pfaffenhofen after the end of the war, had attended the conservatory in Munich, studied clarinet and piano there and as a clarinetist since 1956 in the Oktoberfest-Wiesnkapelle of his grandfather "Gangal Schwarzfischer ”played.
From 1961 he directed his own Oktoberfest band, which he headed as Kapellmeister and conductor until he retired in 2007.
With more than 50 years of activity as a musician at the Oktoberfest, he has become a legend of Bavarian brass music.
His last visit to Moosburg was in 2014
He stayed in Moosburg for the last time in October 2014, on the occasion of the funeral of the former host Max Stuhlmann, with whose family Otto Schwarzfischer still felt connected even after he left his active music career.
Old acquaintances also met each other, namely the former mayor Anton Neumaier as well as the public festival speaker Georg Schußmann, in order to revive wonderful memories in a joint conversation with Otto Schwarzfischer.
Now this great musician has closed his eyes forever.
But some from the field of brass music, local politics and from the circle of folk festival visitors will also think of him in the future, the Oktoberfest Kapellmeister Otto Schwarzfischer, who is known throughout Bavaria, with his equally famous Oktoberfest band.
"He was personally a very nice and friendly person", Anton Neumaier remembers the deceased.
“With great ability he has broken new ground in terms of wind music, but without neglecting traditional march and polka music.” And further: “We will therefore not forget him and will always cherish his memory.”
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