Helmut Frommhold

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Helmut Frommhold (born November 3, 1946 in Weimar ) is a German rock musician , composer , arranger and music teacher .

Life

At the age of eight, Frommhold took lessons at music schools in Berlin and Schwerin and learned to play the mandolin , and later also the violin . When a double bass player was being sought for a school band during his school days , Frommhold took over the bass and from 1961 learned this instrument at the music school. During his apprenticeship at Kabelwerk Oberspree Berlin and his basic military service in the National People's Army , Frommhold played in various amateur bands. When the bass guitar became fashionable in the mid-1960s , he swapped the double bass for a bass guitar. From 1968 he studied double bass at theUniversity of Music “Hanns Eisler” Berlin , later composition and composition with Wolfram Heicking and arranging with Joachim Gocht .

In 1970 he wrote his first own compositions and arrangements. The titles Tomorrow I will pick them up from the train and Der Tag was Meaningful , sung by Aurora Lacasa , immediately took top places in the 1970 hit competition. Further compositions for Aurora Lacasa, Nina Hagen and Jürgen Walter followed. Besides schlager-like melodies created for the group bread and salt compositions of the founding members he was, with strong hard rock influences (u. A. Do not stay standing and whims ) and arrangements for the rock band principle and Holger bending . Frommhold, who musically cannot be tied down to one style, also set texts by Heine , Goethe and Schiller and composed symphonic works for string orchestra . He also wrote the music for Barry silent , a 1979 episode of " Polizeirufs 110 " for the DEFA film Excuse me, do you see football? (1982/83) and the television film People Are Also People (1986). Frommhold set the fairy tale musicals Sleeping Beauty or The Sleeping Beauty , Cinderella or Cendrine and the Magician , Snow White , Revolutschion in Pumpelhagen and The Princess on the Pea to music .

In the 1990s he worked temporarily with Barbara Kellerbauer and wrote the titles Black Skirts and A New Song, a Better Song , published on the CD Lebensgruß on Kreuzberg Records . Since the beginning of the 1990s he has been a member of the Pittiplatsch Ensemble alongside the puppeteers Heinz Schröder and Bärbel Möllendorf and provides the musical framework for the program with which the ensemble has been performing since the beginning of 2008, on the occasion of Schnatterinchen's 50th birthday and the 45th birthday of Pittiplatsch , the popular characters from children's television in the GDR, appears successfully in East Germany. Frommhold has been working with the sinn & ton theater since 2009. For "Rotkäppchen" he rearranged the compositions by Klaus Nothnagel; he composed and arranged the music for "Cristina und das Ungeheuer".

Frommhold now lives and works as a composer in Berlin and teaches at the Béla Bartók Music School in Berlin-Pankow and the Joseph Schmid Music School in Treptow-Köpenick .

Film music

literature

  • In conversation with Helmut Frommhold In: Melodie und Rhythmus , Heft 6/1975, Berlin (GDR)
  • HP Hofmann: Beat Lexicon. Performers, authors, technical terms . VEB Lied der Zeit Musikverlag, Berlin (East) 1977.
  • Bernd Marx: Enthusiastic about the cheeky goblin Pittiplatsch In: Lausitzer Rundschau , January 29, 2008

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personal data
SURNAME Frommhold, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rock musician, songwriter and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH November 3, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Weimar