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84th Austrian Regiment Band


Short story of the 84 Chapel

and its Conductor
Dr.Friedrich Anzenberger

1 January 1883, the Lower Austrian Infantry Regiment No. 84 “Baron Bauer of one battalion of the” 4 “,” 14er “,” 49s “and” ‘59 formed. The immediate occasion for the expansion of the army from 80 to 102 regiments was the revolt in Bosnia-Herzegovina in the year 1881/82. 1894 was a regiment of Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, from 1900 carried the “‘84″ the name “Baron Bolfras.

From 1883 to 1892 was the staff of the regiment, and therefore the military band mostly based in Vienna, from 1892 to 1895 in Mostar (at that time was Bosnia-Hercegovina by Austria-Hungary occupied), then to the beginning of the First World War in Krems on the Danube . The signal regiment of the “‘84″ is a trumpet passage from the finale of the third act of the opera “Rienzi” by Richard Wagner removed.

Established, the “‘84-Chapel but in December 1882 in Vienna. Their story began with a small error when the renowned “Neue Freie Presse” reported in its issue of 1 November 1882 that the military bandmaster Czibulka Alfonso to take over the management of the orchestra. Two days later was corrected, the Karl Komzák first conductor of the “will be ‘84 ‘.
Karl Komzák

on 8 November 1850 in Prague, the son of the same name later military bandmaster. He graduated from the Prague Conservatory in 1869 with honors and went voluntarily to the chapel of Infantry Regiment 11, which was led by his father. 1871, Karl Komzák the Kapellmeister at the “7ern” in Innsbruck and two years later was also choir master of Innsbruck Liedertafel.As of 1/12/1882, he moved to Vienna and built here at the chapel of the newly formed Infantry Regiment 84, which quickly developed into an excellent orchestra. 1884 Komzák with the regimental band even to participate in the imperial court table commands. 1887 as part of a celebration for Archduke Albrecht came to be “Albrecht-Marsch in the presence of the dedicatee for the premiere, a piece that would later become very popular. 1888 played the “‘84″ at the Arts and Crafts Exhibition in Munich.1890 introduced Komzák his chapel at the first of the Danube monarchy of the previously used high mood on Normalstimmung. In the same year he performed with the “84ern” at the Imperial Hofdejeuner in the Vienna Hofburg. Because of his musical achievements he was awarded the Emperor Franz Josef I, the “Golden Cross of the Crown”, a distinction that has received from him only a military bandmaster (Alfons Czibulka).

1892 drew Komzák, on leave for health reasons from the regiment, to Baden, and was there in 1893 Kurkapellmeister. When the military took him in his absence Sergeant Joseph 1892 drew Komzák, on leave for health reasons from the regiment, after
Baden was there in 1893 and Kurkapellmeister. The military took him
in his absence Sergeant Joseph Laßletzberger, who was later himself “‘84″ Kapellmeister until Komzák turn of the year 1895/96 finally quit the military service. Karl Komzák died on 04/23/1905 due to a tragic train accident in Baden.
From his extensive work, the waltz “Badner Madl’n” & “In Storm and Stress”, ‘84 regimental march, march Vindobona, Archduke Rainer Marsch, Numerous medleys and the opera “EDELWEISS”. … Continue Reading »



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