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- Born:
- Dec. 1, 1810, Zsámbék, Hung.
- Died:
- Jan. 31, 1889, Weimar, Ger. (aged 78)
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Joseph Gungl
Austro-Hungarian bandleader and composer
Joseph Gungl (born Dec. 1, 1810, Zsámbék, Hung.—died Jan. 31, 1889, Weimar, Ger.) was an Austro-Hungarian bandmaster and composer of more than 300 popular dances and marches in the light Viennese style.
Gungl was an oboist and later a bandmaster in the Austrian army. In 1843 he formed a celebrated light orchestra in Berlin. In 1849 he toured the United States and in the same year became director of music to the king of Prussia. In 1864 in Munich he founded a second orchestra, with which he traveled extensively. His Hungarian March for Orchestra, Opus 1, was transcribed for the piano by Franz Liszt. Many of the orchestral dances and marches that Gungl composed long remained popular.
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