Daniel Schwarz (bandleader)

Daniel Schwarz (3 July 1851 – 7 March 1885) was a German trumpeter, and the band leader of the travelling Schwarz Band from Hinzweiler, Germany. His home town had a strong musical culture, so although he was a smallholder in Germany, in the summers he would work in the manner of the West Palatine Wandermusikanten, who would travel as musical entertainers throughout Europe in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Schwarz's venues in England were the Raikes Hall Gardens at Blackpool where he was bandmaster and also in the Oddfellows' Hall, Pateley Bridge and in Harrogate, North Riding of Yorkshire.

The Schwarz Band was a section of a larger band belonging to his brother-in-law Jacob Hoffmann. Schwarz was the father of Otto Schwarz, who continued in his father's footsteps, bringing his Bavarian String Band to Harrogate until 1914. Schwarz died suddenly at the age of 33 and is buried in Grove Road Cemetery, Harrogate.