Film composer Peter Thomas: Der Meister der Library Music

Check out Peter Thomas’s music from the title tune of the legendary TV series with “Der Alte”. You will receive a copy of the Library-Music-Werk as soon as possible.

Scene from the series “Raum Patrol Orion”, 1966 erstausgestrahlt Photo: image

See the winding of the easy-listening hype in the 1990s with Peter Thomas (1925–2020) at a party in German pop history. Bei Boomern ist der Komponist dan seiner iconic TV-Titelmelodien der 1960er und 1970er Jahre (‘Raum Patrol’, ‘Der Alte’, etlicher Edgar-Wallace-Verfilmungen uva) ohnehin unlöschbar im Mediengedächtnis gepeichert – anyway wenn nicht all, die with seiner Musik aufwuchsen , signals Namur ready.

Young generations, when they have the Metaebene-zugang, use Thomas’ productions as one of the best Steinbruch products for samples or freuten sich schlicht, have made the abseits of the pop-historical main points on another work, which is completely different, namely absichtlich uauthentisch with the seinerzeit and unprocessed ingredients from Jazz, Pop and Rock.

Peter Thomas war enormously productive. The popular title tune production is an unendliche background music for TV and film that can still display a part of the music from the library. Since 2007, the Peter Thomas archive is one of the catalogs of his work, which does not fall under the rules of the personal composers.

2021 Rief Thomas’ Sohn Philip dann das Label MuZikBeater ins Leben, das de Original-Soundtracks digital zu vertreiben begun en mittlerweile schon über een Dutzend Alben öffentlicht hat. With “The Tape Masters Vol. 1 – Library Music” now appears as a compilation with 25 pieces as Doppel-10-Inch, which is included in the library music work of the maestros.

Her reluctant patience

It is actually unjustified that the library music is nach wie for my great Fluss der Pop-Geschichtsbeschreibung nur ganz am Rand and her unwilling patience. Library Music – that is what you do, that you can experience in your own life and that you can imagine: “Muss I was erasing, was that it?” – is an Art Gebrauchsmusik, that is special for its use in film and TV production.

If you are GEMA-free, it is so that your timesheet is one of the production companies on Urheberrecht and another Tantiemenzahlungen. The production company offers many film and TV productions, while the interest is now a bit waning and thus their production and corporate lawsuits to a minimum.

Am gewöhnlichen Musikmarkt geht diese Gebrauchsmusik fully vorbei. Der gemeine endverbraucher kommt nur in his genus, if there is a film, in dem siegesetzt wird. This is normal in the normal version. Credits are generated: I am in the library music anonymous of the Regelfall. It will take a long time for the League of Music Connoisseurs to come to terms with this Unterwelt.

Once this has been done, most active music players* can once again play in the free flow of the music, as a soundtrack composer*in and/or as a music player*in. For example, during the expansion of the CD speciality in Great Britain, the production companies of their vinyl files began to use their trends, so that their objects are now not even found in normal industrial publications.

A reorganization deck

All offers on the market, at the second-hand dealer and on the market, where these brands do not yet have a floor plan, then the interest of the Crate Digger is aroused.

One of the British authors, musicians, DJs and radio moderator Jonny Trunk, who was founded in 1995 by the label Trunk Records in London, joined soundtracks and frühe electronic music under special library music.

The revival of Library composer and jazz experimenter Basil Kirchin and the opening of Library productions by electronics pioneers Delia Derbyshire and Daphne Oram brought Trunk Records and Library Music together in the music music in the royal family. In 2005 Trunk opened with the Bildband “The Music Library”, which has advanced all its own aesthetics of covering the genres broadly and quickly to standard work.

The money available at that time has not been found, but the library music is one of the Stummfilmzeit. Der Niederländische Musiker Meyer de Wolfe gründete 1909 das Unternehmen De Wolfe Ltd., das een Kinos Noten von Stücken verterieb, die eigen zur Untermalung von Filmvorführungen were composed.

Welcome speech Zubrot

From the beginning of the film era in 1927, the company De Wolfe Ltd. began to make music on records and on 35 mm nitrate films and a film and production company on vertreiben. In the thirties of the last century, the musical undermalung of Kino-Nachrichten became an increasingly large new market.

After the Second World War, De Wolf expanded with greater success in the US and remained in the production of web music a. In 1962, the company changed and its new productions in the format 10-inch LP. It was these offers, the brand name of Jonny Trunk had disappeared.

Library Music war for many musicians in a willing party. The elite of British free jazz and the British rock band The Pretty Things were not so harmless as jobs and a few extra bucks if they earned a full club tour. In Germany, war is no different.

At Golden Ring Records, the library music label of the music publishers Ring Music from Frankfurt, appeared in 1964 the numerical “Sound Music Album” -Reihe with Alben under the Mitwirkung of renowned jazz with Rolf Kühn, Coco Schumann and Dieter Reith. Also Peter Thomas regularly appeared in this series. It does not take long before the reproduction of the anonymous role is played, the production of library music is made by machines.

Breaking musical rules

Egal, ob man eigentlich als Teil een Band, als Schöpfer van Soundtracks voor Mainstream-Kino or als Avantgarde-Jazzer Karriere machen wolllte – in dieser speziellen Welt man dared wild herumexperimentieren, musical Regeln brechen, mal einfach nur Quatsch machen of ganz serioushaft in dieser For the market-oriented development of new ideas, there are many avant-garde ideas to consider.

Take a look at “The Tape Masters Vol. 1” and, one thinks: With Peter Thomas there was something for everyone. “Hammond A Lolo” will be an instrumental trade instrument in the Hammond organ, which will be affected by the effects of uncomfortable listening; “Lazer” is now a more refined guitar solo on a Schlagzeug groove, “Evening Air A” is a funky jam on the basis of the “Come Together” bass riffs of the Beatles.

“Electric Cats” is a noise version of funky beat, with “Galaxy Fall Out” and “Nightmare On LSD” complete with abstract sounds. Man does not see this so well, who in pop music is the composer who makes more of the sounds in the background music.

If the two minutes (even the best Tiktok lengths!) take a long time to arrive, it is a compositional dramaturgy that no longer exists, but an unwanted sound cannot last long.

When the music goes through the war

However interesting, whoever played the music from the 1960s and 1970s, the years that followed were the Leitung of Peter Thomas with Kraut-Rocker with Lothar Meid (Amon Düül II) and Wolfgang Paap (Embryo, Brainticket) Hand in Hand with Jazzern with Klaus Weiss and Sigi Schwab and virtuosos from the Welt von Schlager and TV-Big-Bands with Charly Tabor (Bert Kaempfert) and Josef Hierl (Max Greger).

Now, these times are irrevocably past. In fact, these jobs became more and more like AI-overtragen. When Jonny Trunk’s Urenkel opened the rest of the party plates and went all over the world, the chances of them welding became greater …