Biography of Willy Schmidt (1910-2001)

Birthday

First piano lessons

Registration at the Mainz conservatory

Beginns to play flute at the conservatory with Walter Zarrert (wooden flute with a head-joint made of metall)

Funding of his studies and the instruments by playing dance and coffee house music

After nine semesters diploma

Member of several cure orchestras

First solo flutist of the broadcasting orchestra in Frankfurt (for 40 years)

He bought by mistake the stolen flutes of Karlheinz Zoeller and made sure, that he got them back.

Dies