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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.
Hugo Friedhofer (1901-1981) was a prolific and versatile film composer who orchestrated and arranged scores for many Hollywood classics. He won an Oscar for The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) and was nominated eight times, but also faced self-doubt and anxiety.
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May 20, 1981 · Hugo Friedhofer, an Oscar-winning orchestrator and composer who was among the first to integrate music and movies, died Sunday at St. Vincent's Hospital. He had been receiving treatment...
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,
In this paperbound reprint of a 1999 work, Danly (composer and film music historian) tells the story of Hugo Friedhofer, who began his career as a film composer at the start of the sound era...
Jun 11, 2023 · Hugo Friedhofer. “... he shared with Allyn Ferguson and Jerry Goldsmith a curious distinction: he was one of the very few American film composers actually born in California. Insofar as the politics of Hollywood were concerned, he was a canny observer and trenchant commentator.
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Dec 2, 2022 · Rozsa found Hugo Friedhofer an enormously gifted composer who had contributed more to the world of music than he would ever know. Indeed, Friedhofer’s assessment of his own accomplishments was, to put it bluntly, derogatory and self-punishing.
