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Charles Frederick Thiele (1884 - February 3, 1954) was an American-Canadian bandmaster, musician and industrialist. The inventor of the collapsible music stand, he founded the first company to manufacture music stands in Canada.
Biography
Thiele was born in New York in 1884.[1]
Thiele moved to Waterloo, Ontario in 1919 to work as Director of the Waterloo Musical Society Band.[1] He started a music business in his home, relocating to a second-floor office on King Street after outgrowing the space. He went on to take over a section of an industrial plant in Waterloo, developing the business into Waterloo Metal Stampings.[2] The building, located at 63 William St., had previously housed the Superior Box Co. Ltd.[3]
In 1924 Thiele founded the Ontario Bandsmen's Association, today the Ontario Amateur Bands Association, which oversaw band competitions at the Canadian National Exhibition.[2] He served as president until 1948. Thiele was also a founding member of the Canadian Band Association, established in 1931, serving as president from 1934 to 1935.[1]
Thiele started the Waterloo Music Festival in 1932. The first event featured fifteen bands and 80 solo performers making it, at the time, the largest music festival in the country.[4] By 1953 the festival featured 60 bands and attracted more than 1,000 solo entries.[2]
In 1946 Thiele founded the Waterloo Music Camp for Boys, known as Bandberg, in nearby Bamberg, Ontario. He dedicated the camp to the memory of Canadian bandsmen who had fought and lost their lives in World War II.[2][1]
Death
Thiele died on February 3, 1954 at the Kitchener-Waterloo Hospital after being sick for most of the previous year.[2] After his death, Thiele's personal library of band music was left to the Waterloo Musical Society.[4]
Waterloo Metal Stampings continued to operate after Thiele's death eventually relocating to Manitou Drive in Kitchener, Ontario, where it is goes by the name Waterloo Furniture Components.[3]
Publications
The Pocket Dictionary of Musical Terms ; Also the Rudiments of Music. Waterloo, ON: Waterloo Music Company. 1950.
- ^ a b c d Moogk, Edward B. "Charles Thiele". Historica Canada. The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved 9 January 2017.
- ^ a b c d e "C.F. Thiele, 70, Waterloo's Noted Bandsman, Dies". Kitchener-Waterloo Record. February 3, 1954. p. 3.
{{cite news}}:|format=requires|url=(help) - ^ a b Fear, J. (21 December 2012). "Flash from the Past: Superior Box was on William Street in Waterloo". The Record. Retrieved 9 January 2017.
- ^ a b "Waterloo Region Museum \ Inductees - S to V". www.waterlooregionmuseum.com. Retrieved 9 January 2017.