Willy Schneider (composer)
Willy Schneider (born October 15, 1907 in Kirchheim / Teck ; † November 24, 1983 in Oberlenningen ) German composer , music teacher and conductor .
Life
Willy Schneider (pseudonym: Matthias Burger), son of the municipal music director Wilhelm Schneider, studied music from 1926 to 1927 in Duisburg and from 1928 to 1935 at the Conservatory in Stuttgart with Willy Bergmann (piano), Georg von Albrecht (composition) and Karl Adler ( Conduct). From 1935 to 1936 he completed the Kapellmeister class at the Musikhochschule in Stuttgart with Carl Leonhard and settled in Stuttgart in 1935 as a private music teacher. After his first brass music composition “Notzinger Dorfmusik” was written in 1939, after the end of the war he increasingly turned to amateur brass music and chamber wind music. In 1949 he founded and directed the works band of the Scheufelen paper factory. In 1953 he was appointed to the University Institute for Music in Trossingen, where he headed the college for wind instruments. In 1954 Schott published his “Handbook of Brass Music” in Mainz. From 1954 to 1959 he was the youth leader of the German Folk Music Association and in 1961 he was appointed professor. He has led more than four hundred courses at home and abroad. In 1977 he retired.
Concert band works
- Capriccio , Pollack Music Publishing 1940
- A summer's day , Musikverlag Schott 1978
- Festival hymn , Grosch music publisher 1956
- Festive music for wind instruments , Schott
- Five dances from bark , grosch
- Country music in rondo form , Schott 1954
- Notzinger Dorfmusik , Vieweg 1940 (republished in 1993 by Schott as Notzinger Volkstänze )
- Swabian dance sequence , Schott 1956
- Suite for winds (Aalener Bläsertag) , Grosch 1955
- Folk festival pictures , suite, music publisher G. Bauer
source
The new lexicon of brass music , ed. by Wolfgang u. Armin Suppan. 4th ed. Lexicon of brass music. - Freiburg-Tiengen: brass music publ. Schulz, 1994.
Web links
- Literature, compositions and recordings by Willy Schneider in the catalog of the German National Library
- Composers and authors on the homepage of the Schott music publisher
- Composers on the homepage of the music publisher Thomi-Berg (formerly Grosch)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schneider, Willy |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Burger, Matthias (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German composer, music teacher and conductor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 15, 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kirchheim / Teck |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 24, 1983 |
| Place of death | Oberlenningen |