Werner Stamm

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Excerpt from the guest book Hotel Nicolay zur Post composer Werner Stamm. for the premiere of the Zeltinger Himmelreich operetta 1955.JPG

Werner Stamm (born March 6, 1912 in Solingen ; † April 6, 1993 ibid) was a German police bandmaster and composer .

Werner Stamm was commissioned as police master in 1956 to found a new police music corps in Wuppertal . He later switched to the music corps of the Dortmund Police Department (today the State Police Orchestra of North Rhine-Westphalia ). There he retired on March 13, 1972 as police chief inspector. As a composer he wrote, among other things, in 1950 the hit When the water in the Rhine golden wine Please consider which of Willy Schneider was sung, and the operetta in 1955 Zeltinger Himmelreich , every two years in the wine town since the late 1980s again Zeltingen-Rachtig listed becomes. His other works include marching music such as the Meteor March and popular music .

In the meantime, in the absence of other heirs, the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia holds the rights to the well-known drinking and drinking song .

In 2012, on the occasion of Stamm's 100th birthday, the community of Zeltingen-Rachtig decided to honor the composer with a plaque.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Police Music Corps Wuppertal Head Heinz W. Hilgers , accessed October 29, 2014
  2. ↑ Werner Stamm: Meteor-Marsch , Musikcorps der Schutzpolizei Dortmund at musik-sammler.de, accessed October 29, 2014
  3. ^ Works by Werner Stamm in the catalog of the German National Library
  4. ↑ Works by Werner Stamm in the hbz union catalog (North Rhine-Westphalia)
  5. ↑ From savings book to drinking song . Die Welt, October 12, 2006, accessed October 29, 2014
  6. ↑ Zeltingen-Rachtig honors composers of the Himmelreich operetta . volksfreund.de, January 11, 2012, accessed October 29, 2014
  7. ↑ Mosel operetta 'Zeltinger Himmelreich' by W. tribe hobbyfotoas.de, retrieved October 29, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Stamm, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German police bandmaster and composer
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Solingen
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 1993
Place of death Solingen