Sigmund Snopek III

Sigmund Snopek III (born 1950)^[1] is an American musician and composer.

Career

Snopek began his career in the late 1960s with a prog-rock band called Bloomsbury People.^[2] He has since created concept albums, pop songs, and classical compositions.^[2] Along the way, he performed and recorded with The Violent Femmes. In 2015, he was inducted into the Wisconsin Area Music Industry Hall of Fame.^[3]

Snopek composed a jazz symphony to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the founding of Waukesha, Wisconsin, which was performed at the University of Wisconsin–Waukesha on August 12, 1984.^[4]^{[self-published source]} Snopek's works often have a local Milwaukee flavor to them, such as a song named for Robin Yount on his Baseball album.^[1] His classical works have been performed by many organizations in Milwaukee, including the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and Milwaukee Chamber Orchestra.^[5]

In the late 1970s Snopek and Byron Wieman III led a band that played in Wisconsin and was simply named "Snopek." They recorded two vinyl albums, "Thinking Out Loud" and "First Band On The Moon." Details of those albums listed below. A third rock album under the name "Sigmund Snopek III" titled "WisconsInsane" appeared on Dali Records in 1987, continuing his rock career.

Discography

The Bloomsbury People

Released: 1970
Format: LP
Label: MGM
Writers: Jon Wyderka, Sigmund Snopek III
Singles: "Birdsong", "Witch Helen"

Virginia Woolf

Released: 1972
Format: LP/CD
Label: Water Street Records (1972), Music Is Intelligence (1994 - Germany), Gear Fab Records (2000), Belle Antique (2011 - Japan)
Writers: Sigmund Snopek III

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