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Walter Scholz
Walter Scholz is one of the most successful trumpeters in Germany, with more
than 60 years behind him playing in the folk and classical traditions.
Born in Hesse, Germany, just a year before WWII, Scholz first began playing
music for an audience at the age of six when he joined a trombone choir. He went
on to take music lessons from trumpet virtuoso Franz Willy Neugebauer and,
later, to study at the Siegerland music school. At 17 he began playing trumpet
at the Staatstheater in Detmold and from there went on to play in Mainz,
Darmstadt and the Munich Philharmonic as well as pe...
