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Heinz Eric Roemheld (pronounced RAME HELD) was born on May 1, 1901 in Milwaukee,Wisconsin. His mother began teaching him piano at age four, he soloed on piano at the Majestic Vaudeville Theater House when he was twelve, and he directed ensembles at three Milwaukee hotels at fifteen. Roemheld graduated from the Wisconsin College of Music at ...
Birthplace: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. Academy Award-winning musician Heinz Roemheld made quite a career for himself. Roemheld began his entertainment career with his music featured in films like ...
The Hard Way (1943 film) Heaven Only Knows (film) Here Comes Trouble (1948 film) Hollywood Hotel (film) Honeymoon for Three (1941 film) Housewife (film) The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923 film)
Heinz Roemheld (Milwaukee, May 1, 1901 – Huntington Beach, California, February 11, 1985) was an American composer. Born Heinz Eric Roemheld in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, he was one of four children of German immigrant Heinrich Roemheld and his wife Fanny Rauterberg Roemheld. Heinrich was a pharmacist, but all the members of the family were musical.
Heinz Roemheld was born on 1 May 1901 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. He was a composer, known for The Lady from Shanghai (1947), Melinda and Melinda (2004) and A Bronx Tale (1993). He was married to Emeline Defnet.
Milwaukee-born Heinz Roemheld followed a circuitous route to a career as a film composer. At age four he was identified as a piano prodigy; he later studied with Ferruccio Busoni and Egon Petri in Berlin,…
Heinz Roemheld composed the score for The Invisible Man. He would later score Dracula's Daughter (1936), The Black Cat (1934), and win an Academy Award for Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942). Roemheld was a former concert pianist, and conductor who had impressed Carl Laemmle with his accompaniment to screenings of the 1925 film The Phantom of the Opera.
