Landa Ruprecht
Landa Ruprecht (born December 8, 1912 in Udine and died January 5, 2004 in Salzburg) was an Austrian folk musician and choir director.[1]
Life
Landa Ruprecht was born in Udine, Italy, under the name Jolanda Clauss. In her childhood she came to Zinkenbach at the Lake Wolfgangsee in Austria at an early age and attended elementary school there. In 1921 her mother died and she became an orphan. Her musical talent and interest in alpine folk songs became apparent at an early age. She sang these with her brother on the way to school. After school, Landa Ruprecht completed an apprenticeship as a child care worker and worked for twelve years as a child care worker and housekeeper in a Protestant parsonage.[2]
During this time, she regularly participated in singing weeks and singing circles and was active in folk singing. In 1937 she founded a singing group with eleven girls.
During the Nazi regime, she was a youth group leader for the NS Frauenschaft. She founded other youth singing groups throughout the province of Salzburg and went on singing trips. Among other things, the groups provided musical accompaniment for state visits and performed at Schloss Kleßheim.
After the end of the Second World War, the Americans arrested Landa Ruprecht because she knew Gustav Adolf Scheel, but she was released after a few days.
Landa Ruprecht founded the folk song singing group Landa Ruprecht. From this, several new singing groups were formed. In order to expand her repertoire, Ruprecht kept recording songs from dairymaids to preserve them.[3] In 1965 the folk song singing group Landa Ruprecht took part in the Salzburger Adventsingen. With the founder Tobi Reiser connected them since 1938 a deep friendship and cooperation. A total of eight times, up to 120 members of the singing group sang at the Salzburger Adventsingen. In addition, Landa Ruprecht's folk song singing group gave rise to the Salzburger Dreigesang, consisting of herself, Christl Klappacher and Trude Fuchsberger.[4]
In Parsch, Landa Ruprecht organized weekly children's singing groups at this time and held a monthly singing lesson in 1968 and 1969 on the ORF program Sing ma oans.
In 1972, she handed over the leadership of the Landa Ruprecht folk song singing group to Harald Dengg, who merged it with his own Salzburg Folk Song Choir. In 1974 Ruprecht founded a choir in Wals, followed by another in Parsch. By the end of her musical career, Landa Ruprecht's repertoire included over 1000 song titles.
Private Life
During her time as a Nazi women's group leader, she met the folklorist Dr. Karl Ruprecht. In 1947 the two married and Dr. Ruprecht supported Landa in her musical activities.[5]
Awards
1976: Honorary cup of the province of Salzburg
1982: Folk music badge of honor
1982: Silver merit badge of the province of Salzburg
1992: Golden merit badge of the province of Salzburg[6]
Sources
https://www.salzburger-musikgeschichte.at/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Ruprecht_Landa.pdf, 25.10.2022
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- ↑ Namen & Daten. Landa Ruprecht, in: Salzburger Nachrichten (9. Dezember 1997), o. S
- ↑ Landa Ruprecht. Lebenslauf, o. O.: o. J. [vor 2004], maschinschr. Manuskript im Archiv der Salzburger Volkskultur, Biografien SVK: Ordner R: Sammlung Landa Ruprecht.
- ↑ Rotraut Acker, Landa Ruprecht und ihre Volksliedarbeit, in: Berichte und Mitteilungen der Salzburger Heimatpflege 4 (1980), Heft 3, S. 99–102.
- ↑ Harald Dengg, Der Salzburger Volksliedchor und das Adventsingen, in: Das Salzburger Adventsingen, hg. v. Tobias Reiser und Kurt Vössing, Salzburg, München und Zürich: Unipress 1984, S. 165–170.
- ↑ Landa Ruprecht. Lebenslauf, o. O.: o. J. [vor 2004], maschinschr. Manuskript im Archiv der Salzburger Volkskultur, Biografien SVK: Ordner R: Sammlung Landa Ruprecht.
- ↑ 6. Goldenes Verdienstzeichen des Landes für Landa Ruprecht, in: Landeskorrespondenz 239 (9. Dezember 1992), S. 3f.
