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Siegmund Goldhammer
Siegmund Goldhammer

Born
08.03.1932 in Bielen bei Nordhausen (Thüringen)

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Siegmund Goldhammer was born on 8 March 1932, in Bielen near Nordhausen, Thuringia, East Germany. At the age of eight, he learned the accordion. Later he received piano lessons and taught himself to play the trumpet.
After the war he took up an apprenticeship as a carpenter and then studied trumpet, contrabass and piano at the Technical College of Music in Weimar from 1949 to 1952. He then worked as an orchestral musician andat the same timekept himself busy with smaller compositions and instrumentation.
From 1962 to 1967 he completed a second degree specialising in Composition and Conducting at the “Hanns Eisler” College of Music in Berlin. Goldhammer became Erster Kapellmeister (First Conductor) in the orchestra of the “Wachregiment Berlin” (Guards Regiment of Berlin). In 1971, he was appointed Chief Conductor, and in 1975, Musical Director. His ideological instrumentalization and ongoing control of the orchestra brought political and personal reprisals. Resulting health issues led to his dismissal in 1982.
Under constant observation by the Ministry of State Security, Goldhammer began working as a freelance composer and conductor and developed numerous musically fruitful contacts with orchestras, for example with the Central Orchestra of the National People’s Army under Colonel GMD Gerhard Baumann, and the Leipzig Radio Wind Orchestra under Jochen Wehner.

In 1983, Goldhammer received a teaching assignment for Conducting at the “Hanns Eisler” College of Music in Berlin and became a mentor for numerous amateur wind orchestras as well as a lecturer  and a juror at competitions.
The reunification of Germany in 1989 and the ensuing political turnaround brought a cultural restructuring, which made it difficult for him to take up another artistic activity.
In 1991, Goldhammer found employment as a Second Conductor and Artistic Director of the newly formed “Großes Berliner Blasorchester“ (Great Berlin Wind Orchestra). Also, the establishment of the “Bogsdorfer Kreis” (Bogsdorf Circle), a community of German composersin 1993, enabled the preservation of the work of composers of the former GDR, including Goldhammer.

In the following years Goldhammer developed an intensive collaboration with RUNDEL, the music publisher of the town Rot an der Rot. This resulted in a further collaboration with the Brandenburg State Police Orchestra under the direction of Peter Vierneisel. Several works by Goldhammer were recorded on CDs.
As a composer, Goldhammer mainly devoted himself to dance music, jazz and film music, and to chamber and orchestral music, especially music for wind orchestra. His ability to edit symphonic orchestral works for wind orchestra, made him the master of brass sound in the German-speaking world and an extremely sought-after arranger.

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Kol Nidrei

Kol Nidrei

Kaleidollage (Album 129)<br>Score Book + CD

Kaleidollage (Album 129)<br>Score Book + CD

Entrée Rhythmique

Entrée Rhythmique

Orpheus in der Unterwelt

Orpheus in der Unterwelt

Wendepunkte 1-9-8-9

Wendepunkte 1-9-8-9

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Akademische Festouvertüre - c-Moll op.80

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Academic Festival Overture
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Kol Nidrei

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Solo für Violoncello und Blasorchester
(Solo Euphonium opt.)

Although Bruch’s...
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In Treue fest

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Marsch
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Sei uns gegrüßt

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Festmusik zum Empfang des Königs Friedrich August (1844)
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Richard Wagner...
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Wendepunkte 1-9-8-9 - Wendepunkte 1989

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Dramatische Rhapsodie
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Huldigungsmarsch (Richard Wagner / arr. Siegmund Goldhammer)

"Huldigungsmarsch" von Richard Wagner in einem Arrangement von Siegmund Goldhammer, gespielt von der Bürgerkapelle Brixen unter der...

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Kol Nidrei

Kol Nidrei

Although Bruch’s oeuvre is extensive and significant, modern listeners are nowadays really only familiar with his Violin Concerto No.1, which belongs to the standard repertoire of all violinists. The...
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MVSR2517
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Kaleidollage (Album 129)<br>Score Book + CD

Kaleidollage (Album 129)
Score Book + CD

TROSSINGEN TRUMPETS & Wolfgang Guggenberger Score Book + CD - Original works for trumpet ensemble Fanfare for 8 (Melillo) - Kaleidollage (Kraas) - Jodlerwindfantasie (Gruchmann) - Perger...
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MVSRP129
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Entrée Rhythmique

Entrée Rhythmique

Ensemble Time (Die Musizierstunde) MZ 327 (8 Trumpets) A fourth motif is the basic material of this composition and, in an imitative processing, leads to the formative rhythmic figure. The brief...
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Kaleidollage

Kaleidollage

RUNDEL | audio | compact disc | CD | 129 Fanfare for 8 (Melillo) - Kaleidollage (Kraas) - Jodlerwindfantasie (Gruchmann) - Perger Fanfare (Asanger) - Fusion Latino Classico (Hosay) - Danket dem...
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MVSR129-2
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Orpheus in der Unterwelt

Franco-German composer Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880) is regarded as the founder of modern operetta and established it as an independent genre of musical theatre. His most important work, “Orpheus in...
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MVSR1711
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Wendepunkte

RUNDEL | audio | compact disc | CD | 99 Diese neue CD enthält 12 eindrucksvolle und vielseitige Konzertwerke, die in gewohnt hoher musikalischer Qualität vom Musikkorps der Bundeswehr...
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MVSR099-2
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Wendepunkte 1-9-8-9

1989 / 2014: 25 years ago in Germany a political change happened having an incredible impact on the lives of so many people. With the fall of the Berlin Wall the citizens of the German Democratic...
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MVSR2799
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RUNDEL Promo 2013

The RUNDEL promo catalog 1/2013 includes 36 new band pieces from RUNDEL Music Publications plus sample audio CD. You can listen to the audio samples here online or order the printed catalog with...
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Wildenstein

RUNDEL | audio | compact disc | CD | 87 Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) Tokyo Band Stabsmusikkorps der Japanischen Marine Tokio Tannhäuser Festival, Mosaichoralmente, Wildenstein,...
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MVSR087-2
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Sei uns gegrüßt

Richard Wagner wrote this festive composition in early April, 1844 in just few days after hearing King Frederick Augustus II of Saxony had returned from England. This action by his own authority...
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MVSR2693
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RUNDEL Promo 2011

The RUNDEL promo catalog 1/2011 includes 43 new band pieces from RUNDEL Music Publications plus sample audio CD. You can listen to the audio samples here online or order the printed catalog with...
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Konzertstück Nr. 2 op. 114

The Concertpieces number 1 and 2 by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy were created through the encounter and friendship with the clarinetist Heinrich Joseph Baermann and his son Carl. On his big trip to...
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Elsas Zug zum Münster

Diese Musik entstammt der vierten Szene aus dem zweiten Aufzug der Oper "Lohengrin", als Elsa in einem feierlichen Zug zum Münster geleitet wird, wo sie ihren geheimnisvollen Retter heiraten soll....
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MVSR2607
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Toccata & Fuge in d

In its intellectual complexity, its formal incomparability and musical variety, Bach’s oeuvre shines out across the centuries. All composers who have come after him must prepared to be measured...
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MVSR2536
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Huldigungsmarsch

Hardly any composer was so rejected, and so celebrated by his contemporaries as Richard Wagner. The Leipzig musicologist Hugo Riemann (1849-1919) describes him as “the greatest dramatic composer of...
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Akademische Festouvertüre

The composer Johannes Brahms was born into a family of musicians from Hamburg. His father was a simple tavern musician who, by his great diligence, worked his way up to become a respected double bass...
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Konzertstück Nr. 1 op. 113

The Concertpieces number 1 and 2 by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy were created through the encounter and friendship with the clarinetist Heinrich Joseph Baermann and his son Carl. On his big trip to...
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Concertino op.26

Carl Maria von Weber succeeded in establishing himself as a pioneer of German opera. With the first performance of his “Freischütz” in Berlin in 1821 Weber was finally given unprecedented acclaim as...
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Sinfonische Bläsermusik Vol.2

RUNDEL | audio | compact disc | CD | 53 Repertoire: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg - Kol Nidrei op. 47 - Concerto for Trumpet - Trauermarsch aus Saul - Bist du bei mir - Concertino op....
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MVSR053-2
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In Treue fest

When Carl Teike enlisted in 1883 in the Grenadiers Regiment King Karl (5th Wuerttemberg) No. 123 in Ulm, he had already passed his apprenticeship as a musician of City Band Director Paul...
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L'Avenue

RUNDEL | audio | compact disc | CD | 23 Festliche Ouvertüre - L’Avenue - Spring Is Coming Now - Orpheus in der Unterwelt - Panis Angelicus - The Castle of Bray - Ouverture Brillante - 3...
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MVSR023-2
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Hans Hartwig und seine Musik

Mit frischem Schwung - Der Kalif von Bagdad - Promenadenkonzert - Slawische Impressionen - Folksong Medley - Der Puppenspieler - Lippizaner Parade - Premiere - Lustige Polka - Russisches Tagebuch -...
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T9300
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Festkonzert

Dichter und Bauer - Holzschuhtanz aus "Zar und Zimmermann" - Militärmarsch Nr.1 - Eine Nacht in Venedig - Ägyptischer Marsch - Don Quichote - Sinfonietta - Tarantella aus der...
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TDIV199
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Slawischer Tanz Nr. 4

Die zwei Reihen der „Slawischen Tänze" (op.46 und op.72) von je acht Nummern gehören zu den bekanntesten Kompositionen von Antonín Dvorák. Die ersten acht Tänze unter „Opus 46“ entstanden im Jahr...
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Prager Panorama

RUNDEL | audio | compact disc | CD | 9 Marsch zur Shakespeare-Feier - Polonaise Es-Dur - Polka aus der Oper »Die verkaufte Braut« - Slawischer Tanz Nr. 4 - Altböhmischer Hl....
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MVSR009-2
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Festparade

Siegmund Goldhammer's "Festparade" is a sweeping march that impresses with its shining trumpet calls, filigree woodwind sounds and sonorous bass lines. A true enrichment of band...
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German Masters Folge 3

Vorspiel - Rossini - Ein Abend bei Ziehrer - Leichtes Blut - Hungaria - In Treue fest ! - Divertimento - Berlin bleibt doch Berlin - Henry Mancini in Concert - Musikantenparade - Kreuzfahrt durchs...
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T9388
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Gruß an Sumava

Wirkungsvoller Konzertmarsch, der im Schlußteil durch strahlende C-Dur-Klänge aufhorchen lässt.
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MVSR1701
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Konzertanter Prolog

"Concert Prologue" was commissioned by music publisher Rundel with the aim of creating a sight-reading competition piece. In terms of difficulty, this work is intended for Grade 4 wind...
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Tänzerische Episoden

Ensemble Time (Die Musizierstunde) MZ 135 (Clarinet Quartet with Bass Clarinet) Content: Andante maestoso - Allegretto con allegrezza - Allegro assai Set of Parts: Score Bb Clarinet 1 Bb...
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Fröhliches Leben

Ensemble Time (Die Musizierstunde) MZ 134 (Woodwind Quintet - Flute / Oboe / Clarinet / Horn / Bassoon - Bass Clarinet) Set of Parts: Score C Flute Oboe Bb Clarinet Eb / F Horn Bassoon...
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