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Sigmund Snopek III (born 1950)[1] is an American musician and composer.

Career

Snopek began his career in the late 1960s with a prog-rock band called The Bloomsbury People.[2] He has since created concept albums, pop songs, and classical compositions.[2] Along the way, he performed and recorded with The Violent Femmes. In 2015, he was inducted into the Wisconsin Area Music Industry Hall of Fame.[3]

Snopek composed a jazz symphony to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the founding of Waukesha, Wisconsin, which was performed at the University of Wisconsin–Waukesha on August 12, 1984.[4] Snopek's works often have a local Milwaukee flavor to them, such as a song named for Robin Yount on his Baseball album.[1] His classical works have been performed by many organizations in Milwaukee, including the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and Milwaukee Chamber Orchestra.[5]

Discography

The Bloomsbury People

  • Released: 1970
  • Format: LP
  • Label: MGM
  • Writers: Jon Wyderka, Sigmund Snopek III
  • Singles: “Birdsong”, “Witch Helen”

Virginia Woolf

  • Released: 1972
  • Format: LP/CD
  • Label: Water Street Records (1972), Music Is Intelligence (1994 - Germany), Gear Fab Records (2000), Belle Antique (2011 - Japan)
  • Writers: "Sigmund Snopek III"

Trinity Seaseizesees

  • Released: 1974
  • Format: LP/CD
  • Label: Akashic (1974), Musea (2002)
  • Writers: "Sigmund Snopek III"
  • Singles: "Return of the Spirit", Waukesha Windows"

Nobody to Dream

  • Released: 1975
  • Format: LP
  • Label: Couth Youth Records
  • Writers: "Sigmund Snopek III"

Thinking Out Loud

  • Released: 1979
  • Format: LP
  • Label: Mountain Railroad Records
  • Writers: "Sigmund Snopek III"

First Band on the Moon

  • Released: 1978
  • Format: LP
  • Label: Mountain Railroad Records
  • Writers: "Sigmund Snopek III", "Byron Wiemann III

Turn Around

  • Released: 1980
  • Format: Cassette
  • Writers: Sigmund Snopek

References

  1. ^ a b "Milwaukee Talks: Sigmund Snopek, 2007". Retrieved 11 April 2017.
  2. ^ a b "Book pays tribute to Milwaukee's Sigmund Snopek". Retrieved 11 April 2017.
  3. ^ "2015 WAMI Hall of Fame Inductees". Retrieved 11 April 2017.
  4. ^ Duxbury, Janell (2001). Rockin' the Classics and Classicizin' the Rock. Xlibris Corporation. p. 388.[self-published source]
  5. ^ "Sigmund Snopek III Biography by Stanton Swihart". Retrieved 11 April 2017.


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