Rolf Schneebiegl

Rolf Schneebiegl , bourgeois: Roland Richard Gottfried Leo Schneebiegl (born June 8, 1924 in Rodisfort , Czechoslovakia ; † August 10, 2004 in Bühl ), was a German musician of folk music and jazz ( vibraphone , trumpet). He was the founder and director of the Original Black Forest Musicians , who are at home in the Baden part of the Black Forest .

Live and act

Schneebiegl was born in Czechoslovakia to a Bavarian father and a Bohemian mother. At the age of 10 he attended music school, where he studied French horn , piano , violin and harmony . At 17 he was a horn player in the city orchestra Brüx . During the Second World War he was a soldier and was wounded in Russia in 1943 , so that he no longer had to go to the front and could therefore play the piano, accordion and double bass in the officers' mess . Then he was a member of a spa and symphony orchestra . After World War II he came to Bavaria.

In jazz he played with Hans Rosenfelder in 1947 and Freddie Brocksieper (1948). In 1948 he founded the Enzian Sextet together with Max Greger in Munich and in 1952 he joined the Kurt Edelhagen Orchestra as a trumpeter , which at the time was the big band of Südwestfunk in Baden-Baden. He was also one of the Edelhagen All Stars . Some members of the orchestra played folk tunes in their free time and so the idea of ​​founding a corresponding wind orchestra came up. This is how the "Original Black Forest Musicians" came about. A few years later, Walter Scholz, a successful soloist, also played with them . Schneebiegl also played under Eddie Sauter in the SWF Big Band and under Rolf-Hans Müller in the SWF dance orchestra, had his own jazz combos, played with Hans Koller and in 1964 with Friedrich Gulda and in the NDR jazz workshop . He also recorded with Art Farmer and Maynard Ferguson . He also directed the Freistett town band from 1968 to 1995.

Schneebiegl was married to Felicitas for the second time since 1964. The couple has two sons (Olaf and Thomas) and a daughter (Stefanie). The son Wolfgang comes from his first marriage.

The Black Forest musicians produced around 20 LPs and were soon able to win numerous prizes, including the “Prize of the German Phono Academy” for best wind orchestra. Indeed, in the 1970s, the sound of the wind orchestra was on a par with Ernst Mosch's orchestra. In addition to Walter Scholz , concertmaster Ferenc Aszodi on the flugelhorn with a particularly velvety tone, Gerd Husemann on the flute and piccolo, and Bernd Fischer on the E- flat clarinet particularly shaped the sound of the Black Forest musicians . In 1978 Ernst Mosch appointed many of Rolf Schneebiegl's musicians and was able to win him over as arranger himself. Walter Scholz, Karl Kraft and Erwin Wolf had played in both orchestras before.

Schneebiegl ensured that the Black Forest musicians were able to choose from a wide variety of titles, which at the time was much higher than that of all other brass bands. In addition to the performance of popular marches, polkas and waltzes, which were often composed by the members of the orchestra, the Black Forest musicians were the pioneers with concert solo pieces with a wind orchestra. In addition to numerous trumpet pieces by Walter Scholz , Schneebiegl recorded a few solos for practically all of the orchestra's instruments. The LP "Folk Soloists Parade" is considered to be the orchestra's musical highlight. The repertoire also included operetta melodies, concert waltzes, as well as many Baden and Swabian folk tunes. The orchestra was heard and seen in several television and radio events from 1970 to 1984. From 1982 there were practically no more appearances.

Approx. half of the titles were sung about, from 1975 mostly by Gaby and Jörg Seitz, several titles also with an additional choir, before 1975 also in individual titles by Barbara Rosen, Roland Steinel, the Höfer twins and the Hellberg duo.

The regular line-up of the orchestra were: Gerd Husemann, flute and piccolo - Bernd Fischer, E flat clarinet - Helmut Reinhard (lead), Johann Veigl, Rudolf Flierl, Hugo Moser; Bb clarinets - Ferenc Aszodi (lead), Klaus Mitschele, Hugo Braun, Edgar Withum, Hans Loy; Flugelhorns - Walter Scholz (lead), Horst Kraus, Horst Rabe, trumpet - Heinz Herrmannsdörfer (lead), Gerd Lachmann, Georg Höhne, Pirmin Mast, Martin Dalgauer, Edgar Schaum, Wolfgang Eckerle; Tenor horns and trombones - Gerd Georgi, Manfred Stöckl, Klaus Karcher; Tuba - Herrmann Mutschler (lead), Roland Hensel, drums. Rolf Schneebiegl himself played the trumpet and xylophone for some pieces.

Title selection

• The Devil's Tongue (together with Walter Scholz)
• Post im Walde (together with Walter Scholz)
• Goldner Wein ( The Kaiserstuhl Song ), Polka
• Black Forest Musicians March
• Black Forest song march
• Polka wine siphon
• Seven Swabian Polka
• Robin polka
• Love and lust (innkeepers march)
• In the valley of the seven mills , waltz song
• Night owls , concert waltzes
• Village musicians , concert polka
• The Baden-Bohemian polka
• Honey cake heart
• From the Black Forest to the Wiesental , Polkalied
• Affental polka
• The Black Forest clock in my parents' house , Polkalied
• Circus Renz
• Funiculi, funicula (together with Walter Scholz)
• With drink a quarter

Discography

Albums (selection)

• You wish - we play (Best of LP, 1982)
• Homeland Sounds (1982)
• Garden party in Wiesental (1981)
• Sunday concert (1979)
• 25 years (1977)
• Popular soloist parade (1975/6)
• Love brings great joy (1975)
• The brass band plays happily (1974)
• Rejoice in Life (1974)
• Popular Trumpet Concerto (1973)
• Black Forest Musicians (1966)

literature

• Carlo Bohländer , Karl Heinz Holler, Christian Pfarr: Reclam's Jazz Guide . 3rd, revised and expanded edition. Reclam, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-15-010355-X .

Web links

• Media from and about Rolf Schneebiegl in the catalog of the German National Library