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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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Music manuscripts for motion picture and television scores that Friedhofer orchestrated or composed during his career in Hollywood. Also includes his correspondence with family and friends, photographs, and manuscripts of his compositions for orchestra • L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Brigham Young University.
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.
Hugo Friedhofer arrived in Hollywood in July ’29 and has composed the scores of some 70 films. He also contributed to the scores of 70 others. Indeed, he has worked as collaborator, adapter, arranger, orchestrator and utility composer* on more films than he can remember and in the highly specialized field of orchestration Friedhofer is ...
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May 20, 1981 · Mr. Friedhofer, nominated six times for Academy Awards, won an Oscar for his melodies in ''The Best Years of Our Lives'' in 1947. His other scores included ''The Young Lions,'' ''One-Eyed Jacks...
