GREIDERER Sylvestre (G-78)

German - Austrian musician, conductor, composer, director, playwright and shoemaker (!). From about 1888 to 1924, he had a decisive influence on the cultural life of the Bavarian-Tyrolean Inn River Valley. In two periods (from 1887 to 1889 and from 1897 to 1899) he was the director of the Ritterschauspiele Kiefersfelden. A special merit of Sylvester Greiderer is that he created versions of old chivalric plays by Joseph Georg Schmaltz and other authors, which are reproduced to this day. He wrote many works for vocal ensembles with instrumental accompaniment and wind music for the Kiefersfelden Ensemble, of which he was the music master until 1899. As kapellmeister of the Kufstein City Music Ensemble, he initiated the creation of the Unterinntaler Musikbund, Austria's first national brass band. According to the official record of June 25, 1903, eleven chapels moved to the founding feast on September 20, 1903. The first event was a joint performance of 250 musicians in 1909 at a festival in Innsbruck . As Federal Kapellmeister of the Unterinntaler Musikbund, Sylvester Greiderer played an important role in the founding of the Musikbund Schwaz in Tyrol, and later in the Musikbund Rattenberg and its surroundings on April 10, 1921. Arrangements of Sylvester Greiderer's works are regularly performed at the museum. Kiefersfelden Ritterschauspiele. Of these, only Ubald von Sternenburg (see Rattelmuller ) appeared in print. Greiderer's musical compositions can be heard as breaks in the Kiefersfelden Ritterschauspiele, as well as at public performances by the Kufstein urban band, the Kiefersfelden band and other musical associations in Bavaria and Tyrol.