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Hugo Wilhelm Friedhofer (May 3, 1901 – May 17, 1981) was an American composer and cellist best known for his motion picture scores.
Dec 7, 2023 · Lukas championed him at FSM, Bruce championed him at Kritzerland, and Doug championed him at Intrada. Varese and Screen Archives have also released fine Friedhofer titles. They did this even though Friedhofer apparently sells poorly, because they love his music.
Including orchestrating all of Korngold's movie scores and fifty of Steiner's, Friedhofer would orchestrate or musically direct 105 films into the mid 1950s during his career. But he was already doing significant film composing as well from 1930 along with incidental and stock music for several studios before his stay at Warner.
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distinctively American scores . A prolific composer, Hugo Friedhofer had a career that . spanned early silent film through the sound era, into the 1970s. Friedhofer became the leading orchestrator for Max Steiner, Erich Wolfgang Korngold and Alfred Newman soon after his . 1929 arrival in Hollywood. He went on to compose music for
Sadly, very little of Friedhofer's work is available on CD. Most of his best scores were written in the 1950s for Twentieth Century-Fox, and FSM is beginning the important process of restoring them with this new doubleheader.
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Hugo Friedhofer – The Adventures Of Marco Polo (1938) • The Rains Of Ranchipur (1955) – Film Scores (Suite) – William Stromberg With The Moscow Symphony Orch...
