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Siegfried Rundel

Siegfried Rundel

* 27.04.1940† 09.04.2009
Siegfried Rundel was born in Bußmannshausen on April 27, 1940. His fascination and natural talent for music showed from an early age. He played the trombone in the community band and tried first compositions and arrangements as a teenager. His teachers were pioneers of the German wind band development, such as Hans Feliy Husadel, Gustav Lotterer und Hellmut Haase-Altendorf. Siegfried Rundel...
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Kees Vlak

Kees Vlak

* 30.09.1938† 05.12.2014
Cornelis (Kees) Vlak was born on 30th September, 1938 in Amsterdam. He was influenced by music at young age and when he was eight years old he got his first piano lessons. Later he played the trumpet in the fanfare orchestra “Waterland“. Vlak studied piano and trumpet at the Amsterdam Conservatory (exames 1959 and 1961), and composition and conducting at the Musiklyzeum Amsterdam. He earned...
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Manfred Schneider

Manfred Schneider

* 03.05.1953† 18.11.2008
Manfred Schneider was born on 3 May 1953 in Kestert, a village on the Rhine, situated in the neighbourhood of the famous Lorelei cliff. He studied the accordion, the organ and the French horn in Koblenz and belonged since 1972 to the military band stationed in that city, playing the horn and from 1986 also leading the Big Band. In 1981 he composed the overture "Festival in Silver" for...
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Albert Loritz

Albert Loritz

* 13.11.1953† 15.12.2018
Albert Loritz was born in 1953 in Rot near Laupheim (today: Burgrieden) in the Upper Swabian region. In 1972 he graduated from high school in St. Wendel (Saarland). From 1972 to 1978 he studied at the music academy and university in Freiburg (Breisgau): School music with a major in organ, music theory, composition and musicology. Albert Loritz was a music teacher in his main profession, at a...
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Hans Hartwig

* 24.02.1917† 25.06.2012
Hans Hartwig, born in Neisse (Upper Silesia) in 1917, received his musical education from 1932 to 1936 at the music school in Münsterberg and with the philharmonics of the "Silesian Philharmonic" in Breslau. From 1936 to 1938 he completed his compulsory military service in the music corps of the 14th Infantry Regiment in Konstanz. He then studied conducting at the Musikhochschule in Berlin. After...
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Walter Schneider

* 26.09.1924† 04.07.2000
Walter Schneider-Argenbühl was born on 26th September, 1924 in Leitmeritz (Bohemia). He had his first lessons in music theory and piano under his father, who was a teacher. At young age, Walter Schneider already wrote some light compositions and when he was 17, his first march was premièred by the local band. After the end of the Great War, Schneider came to Sweden and played in a band, first...
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Georg Stich

* 01.01.1958† 17.11.2017
Georg Stich, born in Ebnath (Upper Palatinate) in 1958, came to Ollarzried near Ottobeuren (Allgäu) at a young age and began his musical training there as a trumpeter in the youth band. In 1969 the piano was added, three years later he became a member of the music band Ollarzried and the "Original Hochland Blasmusik". From 1976 to 1981 Georg Stich studied at the Leopold Mozart Conservatory in...
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Klaus-Peter Bruchmann

* 16.10.1932† 21.08.2017
Klaus-Peter Bruchmann wurde 1932 in Borgsdorf bei Berlin geboren und kam schon in seiner Jugend in enge Berührung mit der Musik. Nach dem Studium in Berlin arbeitete er für den Rundfunk sowohl in Berlin wie auch in der damaligen DDR und zwar überwiegend im Bereich der orchestralen bzw. sinfonischen Unterhaltung. Mit der Blasmusik kam er erst in den 70er Jahren in Berührung....
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Josef Poncar

* 14.03.1902† 06.11.1986
Josef Poncar was born on March 14, 1902 in Chodouň near Zdice. His musical development began at the age of seven, when his father, a courtly chamber musician, taught him to play the violin. Over time he learned all wind instruments as well as cello and string bass. His favorite instrument was the tenor horn. At age 11, Poncar founded his first band, and from then on worked as conductor for more...
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Julius Fucik (Fučík)

* 18.07.1872† 25.09.1916
World-renowned march composer Julius Fučík was born in Prague in 1872. An authentic and versatile Bohemian musician, Fučík attended the conservatory in his hometown for violin and bassoon. In 1891 he studied composition with Antonín Dvořák. Fučík played bassoon in several symphony and theatre orchestras. As common in Austria of that time, he had to prove himself...
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Jaroslav Zeman

* 06.04.1936† 23.09.2022
Jaroslav Zeman was born in 1936 in Horní Chvatliny (District of Kolín). His father was a band master and his first musical educator. Jaroslav Zeman studied trombone and euphonium and became musician in the military bands in Prague and Písek. After studies of conducting at the State Conservatory in Prague, he was leader of the Pisek Military Music, the Czech Army Central Band,...
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