Hugo Riesenfeld
Personal Info
Know For
Sound
Gender
Male
Birthday
1879-01-26 (60 years old)
Deathday
1939-09-10
Place of Birth
Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
Also known As
Dr. Hugo Riesenfeld
Hugo Riesenfeld
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Hugo Riesenfeld (January 26, 1879 – September 10, 1939) was an Austrian-American composer. As a film director, he began to write his own orchestral compositions for silent films in 1917, and co-created modern production techniques where film scoring serves an integral part of the action. Riesenfeld composed about 100 film scores in his career. His most successful compositions were for Cecil B. DeMille's Joan the Woman (1917), The Ten Commandments (1923) and The King of Kings (1927); D. W. Griffith's Abraham Lincoln (1930); and the original scores to F. W. Murnau's Sunrise (1927) and Tabu (1931). Born i...
Production
1931
as Original Music Composer
1927
as Original Music Composer
1925
as Music Arranger
1927
as Original Music Composer
1938
as Original Music Composer
1936
as Original Music Composer
1937
as Original Music Composer
1928
as Original Music Composer
1936
as Original Music Composer
1938
as Original Music Composer
1938
as Music Director
1930
as Music
1920
as Original Music Composer
1928
as Music
1925
as Music
1929
as Music
1929
as Music
1938
as Music
1936
as Music
1920
as Original Music Composer
1923
as Music
2003
as Music
1927
as Music
1930
as Original Music Composer
1930
as Music Arranger
1927
as Original Music Composer
1934
as Original Music Composer
1925
as Music
1933
as Music Director
1929
as Music
1928
as Original Music Composer
1916
as Original Music Composer
1928
as Original Music Composer
1918
as Music
1930
as Songs
1937
as Music Director
1937
as Original Music Composer
1930
as Music Arranger
1929
as Sound
1928
as Original Music Composer
1929
as Music Director
1929
as Music Arranger
1934
as Original Music Composer
1928
as Music
1928
as Music
1926
as Original Music Composer
1936
as Original Music Composer
1937
as Original Music Composer
1929
as Original Music Composer
1936
as Original Music Composer
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