Sigmund Snopek III
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Sigmund Snopek III (born 1950)[1] is an American musician and composer.
Career
[edit]Snopek began his career in the late 1960s with a prog-rock band called 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][self-published source] 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]
In the late 1970s Snopek and Byron Wieman III led a band that played in Wisconsin and was simply named "Snopek." They recorded two vinyl albums, "Thinking Out Loud" and "First Band On The Moon." Details of those albums listed below. A third rock album under the name "Sigmund Snopek III" titled "WisconsInsane" appeared on Dali Records in 1987, continuing his rock career.
Discography
[edit]- 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
- Released: 1974
- Format: LP/CD
- Label: Akashic (1974), Musea (2002)
- Writers: Sigmund Snopek III
- Singles: "Return of the Spirit", "Waukesha Windows"
- 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
- Released: 1980
- Format: Cassette
- Writers: Sigmund Snopek
WisconsInsane (Sigmund Snopek III album)WisconsInsane
- Released: 1987
- Format: LP
- Writers: Sigmund Snopek III, Victor DeLorenzo
Beer (Sigmund Snopek III album)
- Released: 1997
- Format: CD
- Writers: Sigmund Snopek III, Andrea Terek
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Milwaukee Talks: Sigmund Snopek, 2007". Retrieved 11 April 2017.
- ^ a b "Book pays tribute to Milwaukee's Sigmund Snopek". Retrieved 11 April 2017.
- ^ "2015 WAMI Hall of Fame Inductees". Retrieved 11 April 2017.
- ^ Duxbury, Janell (2001). Rockin' the Classics and Classicizin' the Rock. Xlibris Corporation. p. 388. ISBN 9781462807369.
- ^ "Sigmund Snopek III Biography by Stanton Swihart". Retrieved 11 April 2017.