Jean Antoine Zinnen

Johann Anton (also: Jean -Antoine ) pinnacles ( born April 25, 1827 in New Castle in the Prussian Rhine province, † May 16, 1898 in Neuilly -sur -Seine near Paris) was a German - Luxembourgish musician and composer. From him is the melody of the Luxembourg National Anthem Ons Heemecht.

Life

Zinnens mother died when he was six years old. Then his father Johann Baptist drew battlements (Jean -Baptiste battlements ) together with his children Johann -Anton, Karoline Mathilde and in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, first by Clervaux, Diekirch and then to rock. Johann Anton was discovered very early talent for music and supported by his father, who was himself an enthusiastic brass band and the 1836 Felser Musikverein founded and directed. Johann Anton battlements visited the Felser music school, which was run by his father.

Even with 15 years of battlements was added to the orchestra of the 1st Battalion of the Luxembourg federal quota of the Armed Forces of the German Confederation to Echternach. Within four years he was there for the horn first class. In 1847 he was appointed conductor of the orchestra for 20 years. He got in 1849 the Luxembourg nationality. At the time he was head of music at the 2nd Battalion of the Luxembourg federal quota of the Armed Forces of the German Confederation to Diekirch. In 1852, battlements Music Director of the City of Luxembourg City and a little later director of the newly founded State Conservatory was. The following years he sat down quite a for the music; he managed various vocal and musical societies throughout Luxembourg. Finally battlements was co-founder in 1863 of the General Luxembourg Musikverein.

Of his compositions ons Heemecht is the best known. The song was premiered on June 5, 1864 in Ettelbrück. He wrote further two operettas, marches, cantatas and songs. 1882, the Conservatory was closed for financial reasons. Battlements then moved to Paris, where he played in various orchestras. A Luxembourg Blasensemble he put on the legs. He died in 1889 in Neuilly, near Paris. His remains were interred on October 28, 1900 St. Nicholas Cemetery in Luxembourg. There, a monument was erected in his honor on May 11, 1902.

At the Place Guillaume II, a place in the city of Luxembourg, in 1927 a commemorative plaque on the house was attached to the 100th anniversary of his birth, where he gave music lessons. In New Castle on the battlements place a memorial stone was erected with a commemorative plaque.