Joseph Gungl , correct: Josef Gung'l (1 December 1809 – 1 February 1889), was a Hungarian composer, bandmaster , and conductor . He was soprano Virginia Naumann-Gungl 's father.
12-496: Gungl was born in Schambeck , Austrian-Hungarian monarchy (now Zsámbék, Hungary). After working as a school-teacher in Buda , and learning the elements of music from the school-choirmaster, he became first oboist at Graz , and, at twenty-five, bandmaster of the 4th Regiment of Austrian Artillery. His first composition, a Hungarian march, written in 1836, attracted some notice, and in 1843 he
24-500: A Turkish bath, the ruins of which are still visible in the village. In 1686 general János Bottyán fought there against the Turks. Later the Zichy family became the landowners of the region. They then rebuilt the castle. An earthquake in 1763 ruined the church once again. It was not reconstructed after this horrific event. Settlers from Germany , who came to live in the abandoned village after
36-516: A bronze trumpet. In the 1180s the wife of Béla III of Hungary , Margaret Capet, who was the step-sister of the French king Philippe Auguste, granted land around the village to a knight named Aynard, in recognition of his service to the King for safely escorting Margaret from Paris to Esztergom in 1186. His origin is obscure, but he would certainly have been selected for the military responsibility from those who
48-645: A series of promenade concerts at the Covent Garden in London in 1873. From Frankfurt, Gungl went to Weimar to live with his daughter, a well-known German opera singer, and died there. Gungl was a very prolific composer, and in his lifetime composed no less than 436 dances, the most popular of which being the waltzes Amoretten , Hydropaten , Casino and Dreams on the Ocean , the In Stiller Mitternacht polka , and
60-621: Is a town in Pest County , Hungary . Zsámbék is located 30 km west of Budapest along the M1 motorway in the Gerecse Mountains. Its neighbouring villages are Tök , Perbál , Páty , Herceghalom , Mány , Bicske , and Szomor . Zsámbék has been inhabited since Paleolithic times. It has seen Celtic , Roman and Avar populations throughout its history, according to archaeological finds. A Celtic coach's remains were found there as well as
72-511: The Blue Violets mazurka . His Hungarian march was transcribed by Franz Liszt . His music is characterized by the same-easy flowing melodies and well-marked rhythm that distinguish the dances of the younger Strauss , to whom alone he can be ranked second in this kind of composition. This article about a Hungarian composer is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Zs%C3%A1mb%C3%A9k Zsámbék ( German : Schambeck )
84-571: The Great Hungarian Plain repopulated the town. Zsámbék is twinned with: Zichy family The House of Zichy (of Zich and Vázsonykő) is the name of an ancient Magyar family of the Hungarian nobility , conspicuous in Hungarian history from the latter part of the 13th century onwards. The first authentic ancestor of the Zichy bore the name of Gal (Gál) Zayk, and Zayk was the surname of
96-670: The French king trusted. The only identifiable person in the king's entourage named Aynard was at one time the Viscount of Limoges, who had been outlawed by the Anglo-Norman court of Henry II in 1183. This person was assassinated in Paris in the year 1199. Aynard's family built the Premonstratensian church beginning in 1220. The church was destroyed in 1241 during the Mongolian invasions. Following
108-463: The Turkish occupation, took the stones from the church and used them for building houses and fences. Many of the church's stones are still present in the walls of older houses. In 1946, as part of the larger expulsion of Volksdeutsch from central Europe , 3,700 German inhabitants of Zsámbék—or approximately 95% of the town's population—were forcibly resettled to Germany . Ethnic Hungarian settlers from
120-475: The destruction, during the reign of Béla IV of Hungary , the church and monastery were rebuilt. Positioned at an important merchant route — halfway between Esztergom and Székesfehérvár and near Buda — the village underwent rapid growth. In 1467 Matthias Corvinus granted the rights of a borough. He also gave the fortress to his son, John Corvinus . In 1541, Turkish troops occupied the fortress and held it for 145 years. During this occupation, they also built
132-447: The family until it came into possession of Zich in the 14th century. They first came into great prominence in the 17th century, being given countly rank in 1679 in the person of the imperial general Stefan Zichy (d. 1693). His descendants divided, first into two branches: those of Zichy-Palota and Zichy-Karlburg. The Palota line, divided again into three: that of Nagy-Lang, that of Adony and Szent-Miklos, and that of Palota, which died out in
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#1733085785030144-514: Was able to establish an orchestra in Berlin. With this band he travelled far, even to the United States in 1848–1849. Mendelssohn 's complete A Midsummer Night's Dream music is said to have been first played by Gungl's orchestra. In 1853 he became bandmaster to the 23rd Infantry Regiment at Brno , but in 1864 he moved to Munich , and in 1876 at Frankfurt , after having conducted with great success
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