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Title	Schinderhannes
Article no.	4091183
Category	Concert/wind/brass band
Subcategory	Concert music
Instrumentation	Ha (concert/wind band)
Format	PrtStm (full score and parts)
Country of publication	Switzerland (ch)
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Year of publication	2018
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Composer	Bürki, Mario
Difficulty level	5
Evaluation level of countries	D4 (German upper level)
Duration	12:15
Additional info/contents	Carl Zuckmayer wrote about him: “This is Schinderhannes, the ragamuffin, the gallows rope, the terror of every man and also of women...» The man who was born as Johannes Bückler was a kind of German Robin Hood. He was only 26 years old. Johannes Bückler was born in 1777 near Nastätten in the Hintertaunus. His father worked as a skinner or flayer, hence his later nickname. He committed his first theft when he was just 14 years old. In 1795 he was arrested in Kirn an der Nahe, but escaped at night over the roof of the town hall. Wanted as a fugitive thief, Bückler went into hiding and began his adventurous life as a robber in 1796. Johannes Bückler, eloquent, stately, literate, became a popular figure under the pseudonym “Schinderhannes”. He acted as a criminal with brains. He left the poor and lowly people alone because it was hardly worth looting from them. Instead, he often distributed parts of his looted goods to farmers and day laborers - less out of generosity than to gain allies who could warn of dangers or offer short-term safe hiding places. In fact, Schinderhannes acts more like a mafia godfather through theft, burglary, robbery and extortion of protection money. But he ensures that, if possible, no victim suffers physical harm. Murder is completely taboo because it inevitably carries the death penalty. When he attacks isolated houses, his men scare the residents with loud shouting and singing, so that they hardly think of fighting back. At Easter 1800, Schinderhannes conquered the woman of his life: Julia Blasius, 19-year-old daughter of a musician. She joins the gang as “Julchen” and takes part in raids dressed as men. They live protected by sentinels in the corners of the Rhine and Nahe near Kallenfels, Hahnenbach and Birkenfeldermühle. Since the areas on the left bank of the Rhine have been occupied by France since 1793, the gang often commutes between German and French territories. This makes access by the authorities considerably more difficult. Despite this, Schinderhannes was arrested several times, for example in Simmern in 1799, but managed to escape each time. This consolidates his legendary reputation among the population. On May 31, 1802, he was arrested with Julchen and several companions and taken to Frankfurt/Main. He was interrogated a few times and then the police handed him over to the French authorities in Mainz on June 16th. The coffins were ordered even before the verdict. A stronger wind blows here. The First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte fights the bandit evil with a hard hand. Breaking into inhabited houses is punishable by death. When the trial began on October 27, 1803, Schinderhannes knew nothing about this law and defended himself cleverly. Nevertheless, on November 20th he and 19 of his cronies were sentenced to death. Julchen Blasius is luckier. Because she is pregnant by Bückler, she only gets two years in prison. The mass execution took place by guillotine in front of thousands of spectators on November 21, 1803. An eyewitness, the writer Johann Gottlob Schulz, reports: “Schinderhannes was executed first. When he came to the guillotine, he looked at the ax for a few moments, then said with some composure: "I die willingly, I deserve to die, but of these, pointing to the rest, at least ten die innocently."
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	Schinderhannes (concert/wind band), full score and parts
	Schinderhannes (concert/wind band), full score

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