Sigmund Snopek III

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 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

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 Seas Seize Sees

• 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, Byron Wiemann III

First Band on the Moon

• Released: 1980
• Format: LP
• Label: Mountain Railroad Records
• Writers: Sigmund Snopek III, Byron Wiemann III

Turn Around

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

Roy Rogers Meets Albert Einstein

• Released: 1982
• Format: LP
• Label: Mountain Railroad Records
• Writers: Sigmund Snopek III

WisconsInsane

• Released: 1987
• Format: LP
• Label: Dali Records
• Writers: Sigmund Snopek III, Victor DeLorenzo

Sigmund Snopek's Beer

• Released: 1997
• Format: CD
• Label: Charm School Records
• Writers: Sigmund Snopek III, Andrea Terek

Miasma Fragments

• Released: 2001
• Format: CD
• Label: Spiritone Records
• Writers: Sigmund Snopek III

Christmas

• Released: 2001
• Format: CD
• Label: Not On Label
• Writers: Sigmund Snopek III

Jade

• Released: 2003
• Format: CDr
• Label: Not On Label
• Writers: Sigmund Snopek III