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Harry Manfredini (born August 25, 1943 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American composer and jazz soloist, who has scored more than one hundred films, including most of the Friday the 13th series. He has had years of classical training, as well as twenty years in the popular music scene.
Harry Manfredini, perhaps best known for his genre scores including Friday the 13th and its sequels, here proves once again why he is a master at creating musical suspense. His score blends perfectly with the noir-like lighting, elevating the film from creepy to downright unsettling. It is a brilliant yet subtle score.
Harry Manfredini. Composer: Friday the 13th. Film composer Harry Manfredini specializes in writing for horror films, but is also a song writer and jazz soloist. From his haunting dramatic scores for The Friday the 13th films, to his adventurous music for The Omega Code, Harry Manfredini has established himself as a motion picture music composer of the same style as Bernard Herrmann.
- Composer, Music Department, Actor
- August 25, 1943
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Harry Manfredini: Biography. Born in Chicago, Harry has spent most of his life in music. While living in the Midwest, he worked as an arranger and performer. He also earned a Bachelor of Music degree from DePaul University and a Master of Arts degree from Western Illinois University, where he subsequently taught theory, orchestration, and ...
Harry Manfredini. Composer: Friday the 13th. Film composer Harry Manfredini specializes in writing for horror films, but is also a song writer and jazz soloist. From his haunting dramatic scores for The Friday the 13th films, to his adventurous music for The Omega Code, Harry Manfredini has established himself as a motion picture music composer of the same style as Bernard Herrmann. Manfredini ...
- August 25, 1943
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Apr 18, 2015 · composer Harry Manfredini talks horror, synths and jazz. One day, at the dawn of the 1980s, Harry Manfredini sat down in the front room of his Bergen County home off Route 4 and started to compose ...
Harry Manfredini’s journey into film scoring began in the realm of classical music and jazz, a foundation that would later inform his unique approach to composing for cinema. With a keen interest in the emotional power of music, Manfredini sought to explore how sound could be used to amplify storytelling, particularly within the horror genre.
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