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John Stepan Zamecnik (May 14, 1872 in Cleveland, Ohio – June 13, 1953 in Los Angeles, California) was an American composer and conductor. He is best known for the " photoplay music " he composed for use during silent films by pianists, organists, and orchestras.
ZAMECNIK, JOHN S. (1872-13 June 1953) utilized his experience as a Cleveland theater musician to become a pioneer in the scoring of Hollywood film music. A native Clevelander, he was the son of Bohemian immigrants Joseph and Katherine Zamecnik. The elder Zamecnik was a bandleader, and young Zamecnik had already shown compositional and ...
J. S. Zamecnik. John Stepan Zamecnik (May 14, 1872 in Cleveland, Ohio – June 13, 1953 in Los Angeles, California) was an American composer and conductor. He is best known for the "photoplay music" he composed for use during silent films by pianists, organists, and orchestras. Zamecnik used many pseudonyms, including Dorothy Lee, Lionel Baxter ...
J.S. Zamecnik. Composer: The Rough Riders. Composer, conductor and violinist. He studied for five years with Anton Dvorak in Prague, then returned to America as violinist and concertmaster with Victor Herbert in the Pittsburgh Symphony.
- Music Department, Composer, Soundtrack
- May 14, 1872
- J.S. Zamecnik
- June 13, 1953
Jul 20, 2021 · Biography. John Stephen (J.S.) Zamecnik (14 May 1872, Cleveland, Ohio - 3 June 1953, Los Angeles) was an American composer and conductor. Zamecnik studied piano and violin as a youth and from 1893 to 1896 was a student at the Prague Conservatory. During part of that time he studied composition with Antonin Dvorák, who had gone to America in 1892 to become director of the National Conservatory ...
Feb 11, 2022 · At the very first Academy Award ceremony in 1929, Best Picture went to the silent film, “Wings.” Unlike today, there were no categories for anything sound-related, but there was an original score to go with the movie. J.S. Zamecnik wrote the music for orchestras, which provided the live soundtrack in theaters across the country.
Feb 11, 2022 · The Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra will soon be in Cleveland to perform music by J.S. Zamecnik, a Cleveland-born composer of music for silent films. This is the cover of a Zamecnik album by ...
