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Introducing the Fathers of Film Music series
As you all may be aware, I have an unabashed passion for Golden Age film scores. I was very happy to join Movie Music UK in 2010 and be given the opportunity to review the wonderful scores from this...
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MAX STEINER – Fathers of Film Music, Part 1
Article by Craig Lysy Born: 10 May 1888, Vienna, Austria. Died: 28 December 1971 Maximilian Raoul Walter Steiner stands as one of the greatest film score composers of all time, and has earned the great...
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ERICH WOLFGANG KORNGOLD – Fathers of Film Music, Part 2
Article by Craig Lysy Born: 29 May 1897, Brünn, Moravia. Died: 29 November 1957 Erich Wolfgang Korngold was born of Jewish ancestry in the city of Brünn located in the province of Moravia, which was...
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ALFRED NEWMAN – Fathers of Film Music, Part 3
Article by Craig Lysy Born: 17 March 1900, New Haven, Connecticut Died: 17 February 1970 Alfred Newman is remembered as one of the Titans of film music. Indeed the Newman family has collectively gained...
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DIMITRI TIOMKIN – Fathers of Film Music, Part 4
Article by Craig Lysy Born: 10 May 1894, Kremenchuk, Ukraine. Died: 11 November 1979. Dimitri Zinovich Tiomkin was born in Kremenchuk, Ukraine during the wanning years of the imperial Russian Empire....
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FRANZ WAXMAN – Fathers of Film Music, Part 5
Article by Craig Lysy Born: 24 December 1906, Königshütte, Germany. Died: 24 February 1967 Franz Wachsmann was born of Jewish ancestry in the city of Königshütte in Germany (now Chorzów, Poland). He...
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MIKLÓS RÓZSA – Fathers of Film Music, Part 6
Article by Craig Lysy Born: 18 April 1907, Budapest, Hungary. Died: 27 July 1995 Miklós Rózsa was born to upper class parents who resided in Budapest during the waning years of the Austro-Hungarian...
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BERNARD HERRMANN – Fathers of Film Music, Part 7
Article by Craig Lysy Born: 29 July 1911, New York, New York Died: 24 December 1975 “Near the snow, near the sun, in the highest fields. See how these names are feted by the waving grass, and by the...
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VICTOR YOUNG – Fathers of Film Music, Part 8
Article by Craig Lysy Born: 8 August 1899, Chicago, Illinois Died: 10 November 1956 Victor Young’s early life was not an ordinary one by any measure. He was born of Jewish heritage into a family with...
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HUGO FRIEDHOFER – Fathers of Film Music, Part 9
Article by Craig Lysy Born: 3 May 1901, San Francisco, California. Died: 17 May 1981. Hugo Wilhelm Friedhofer was born in San Francisco into a musical family, his father being an accomplished cellist...
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DAVID RAKSIN – Fathers of Film Music, Part 10
Article by Craig Lysy Born: 4 August 1912, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Died: 9 August 2004. David Raksin was of Russian Jewish heritage; the eldest of three sons born in Philadelphia after his parents...
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HERBERT STOTHART – Fathers of Film Music, Part 11
Article by Craig Lysy Born: 11 September 1885, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Died: 1 February 1949. Herbert Stothart was born of Scottish and German ancestry in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1885. He studied at...
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JEROME MOROSS – Fathers of Film Music, Part 12
Article by Craig Lysy Born: 1 August 1913, New York City, New York Died: 25 July 1983 Jerome Moross was born in Brooklyn, the second of three sons of a family of Jewish émigrés from Russia. Although...
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WILLIAM WALTON – Fathers of Film Music, Part 13
Article by Craig Lysy Born: 29 March 1902, Oldham, England. Died: 8 March 1983. William Turner Walton was born into a musical family of Charles Alexander Walton and Louisa Maria Turner in the English...
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BRONISLAU KAPER – Fathers of Film Music, Part 14
Born: 5 February 1902 Warsaw, Poland. Died: 26 April 1983. Bronislau Kaper was of Jewish heritage, and at the very early age six took up the piano, soon demonstrating a remarkable musical talent. His...
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NINO ROTA – Fathers of Film Music, Part 15
Article by Craig Lysy Born: 3 December 1911, Milan, Italy. Died: 10 April 1979. Giovanni Rota was born to Emesta Rinaldi and Ercole Rota in Milan in the northern Italian province of Lombardy. He was...
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RICHARD ADDINSELL – Fathers of Film Music, Part 16
Article by Craig Lysy Born: 13 January 1904, London, England. Died: 14 November 1977. Richard Stewart Addinsell was the youngest of two sons born to business accountant Arthur Addinsell and his wife,...
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