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 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

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

1. "Milwaukee Talks: Sigmund Snopek, 2007". Retrieved 11 April 2017.
2. "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. ISBN 9781462807369.
5. "Sigmund Snopek III Biography by Stanton Swihart". Retrieved 11 April 2017.