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Werner Schmidt-Boelcke (* July 28, 1903 in Rostock-Warnemünde; † November 6, 1985 in Gauting; born Werner Albert Anton Paul Schmidt) was a German composer and bandmaster.

The son of the concert pianist Alfred Schmidt(-Badekow), he received piano lessons at his mother's ''Akademische Musikschule'' during his high school years. At the age of 14, he already participated in public student performances under the name Schmidt-Boelcke (after the name of his mother's second husband).
From 1920, he attended Stern's Conservatory in Berlin with the intention of becoming a concert pianist. After graduating in August 1923, Willy Schmidt-Gentner hired him as his second conductor. As a silent film conductor, he worked first at the ''Meinhardt-Bernauer-Bühnen'' in Berlin and then at the ''Phöbus-Palast in Munich''.
In 1928, he became chief conductor of all the movie theaters of the Munich film company ''Emelka'', at the same time conducting during silent film screenings at about 50 films in the ''Capitol-Lichtspielhaus'' in Berlin. He also wrote some original scores that were performed by orchestras or pianists in the movie theaters. Also in 1928, he conducted for radio for the first time at the ''Vox-Haus'' in Berlin.
In 1929, he composed the film music for the first German sound film ''Dich hab' ich geliebt''. In 1934, he became 1st Kapellmeister at the ''Metropoltheater'' in Berlin, which from 1939 included the ''Admiralspalast''. His conducting activities here remained Schmidt-Boelcke's main occupation until the end of the war. He helped many operettas to success, including Fred Raymond's ''Maske in Blau'' in 1937 and Ludwig Schmidseder's ''Frauen im Metropol'' in 1940. It was not until after the theaters closed in 1944, when he was conscripted into service with ''Reichsrundfunk Berlin'', that he resumed composing film music. In 1944, Schmidt-Boelcke was on the ''Gottbegnadeten'' list (Important Artist Exempt List) of the Nazi Party Reich Ministry for Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda.

In 1945/46, he worked as Director of Light Music at Radio Hamburg under British license, and from 1947 he was conductor and leader of the radio orchestra in Munich for the newly founded station ''Radio München'' which later became ''Bayerischer Rundfunk''. He led the orchestra until his retirement in 1968 and frequently acted as guest conductor at other radio stations. Subsequently, he worked primarily for ZDF in reconstructing or re-recording old silent film scores. Schmidt-Boelcke was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1974 and in 1980 he received the Film Ribbon in Gold for many years of outstanding work in German film.
Schmidt-Boelcke left behind a large number of recordings with him as conductor, including for the Odeon, Electrola and Eurodisc labels. He is buried in the Feldmoching cemetery.

Note: Translated from a German version of Wikipedia into English.