Conrad Salinger

Komponist

30. August 1901 — 17. Juni 1962 (60 Jahre)
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Conrad Salinger (August 30, 1901, Brookline, Massachusetts – June 17, 1962, Pacific Palisades, California) was an American arranger, orchestrator and composer, who studied classical composition at the Paris Conservatoire. He is credited with orchestrating nine productions on Broadway from 1931 to 1938, and over seventy-five motion pictures from 1931 to 1962. Film scholar Clive Hirschhorn considers him the finest orchestrator ever to work in the movies. Early in his career, film composer John Williams spent much time around Salinger.

During his Broadway apprenticeship Salinger first came across Johnny Green, his future MGM musical director, when they were recording motion picture overtures in the early days of sound at New York to be shown before the main features began. Salinger first came out to Hollywood in the late 1930s to work for Alfred Newman (e.g. Born to Dance and Gunga Din) and also collaborated with the famed Broadway orchestrator Robert Russell Bennett on the arrangements for Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers' 1938 dance picture Carefree.

Salinger orchestrated most of the musicals that MGM is famous for; among them, in addition to the 1951 Show Boat, were Girl Crazy (the 1943 version), Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) (which included a memorable arrangement of The Trolley Song), Anchors Aweigh (1945), the 1947 film version of Good News, Summer Holiday (1948), the 1949 film version of On the Town, the 1950 film version of Annie Get Your Gun, Singin' in the Rain (1952), the 1953 film version of Kiss Me, Kate, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954), An American in Paris (1951), The Band Wagon (1953), Gene Kelly's pioneering 1956 all-ballet film Invitation to the Dance and the original film musical Gigi (1958). His lush scoring for the ballet sequences in Lerner and Loewe's Brigadoon (1954) have come to be regarded as high points of the orchestrator's art in the Golden Age of musicals.

Filme & Serien auf plex.tv

  • Das Haus der Lady Alquist
    Das Haus der Lady Alquist1944
  • Heimweh nach St. Louis
    Heimweh nach St. Louis1944
  • Eine Braut für sieben Brüder
    Eine Braut für sieben Brüder1954
  • Weites Land
    Weites Land1958
  • Heut’ gehn wir bummeln
    Heut’ gehn wir bummeln1949
  • Damals in Paris
    Damals in Paris1954
  • Good News
    Good News1947
  • Bis die Wolken vorüberzieh'n
    Bis die Wolken vorüberzieh'n1946
  • Mein Mann, der Cowboy
    Mein Mann, der Cowboy1938
  • Die Schönste von New York
    Die Schönste von New York1952
  • Andy Hardy Meets Debutante
    Andy Hardy Meets Debutante1940

Bekannt aus

  • Mississippi-Melodie
    Mississippi-Melodie1951

Filmografie

1960
The Slowest Gun in the West · as Original Music Composer
1959
Ford Startime · as Original Music Composer
1959
Markham · as Composer
1958
Lonelyhearts · as Original Music Composer
1958
Gigi · as Composer
1957
Wagon Train · as Composer
1957
Bachelor Father · as Composer
1956
Gaby · as Original Music Composer
1955
The Scarlet Coat · as Original Music Composer
1955
Hit the Deck · as Original Music Composer
1954
The Last Time I Saw Paris · as Original Music Composerauf plex.tv
1954
1954
Tennessee Champ · as Original Music Composer
1953
Dream Wife · as Original Music Composer
1953
1952
Washington Story · as Composer
1952
1952
The Belle of New York · as Composerauf plex.tv
1951
The Unknown Man · as Original Music Composer
1951
An American in Paris · as Original Music Composer
1951
Show Boat · as Composer
1950
Pagan Love Song · as Composer
1950
Nancy Goes to Rio · as Composer
1949
That Midnight Kiss · as Original Music Composer
1949
Take Me Out to the Ball Game · as Original Music Composer
1948
Words and Music · as Composer
1948
1947
Good News · as Original Music Composerauf plex.tv
1947
Dark Delusion · as Composer
1946
Two Sisters from Boston · as Original Music Composer
1944
Rationing · as Composer
1943
Girl Crazy · as Composer

1962
Billy Rose's Jumbo · as Orchestrator
1958
The Big Country · as Orchestratorauf plex.tv
1957
Silk Stockings · as Orchestrator
1957
Funny Face · as Orchestrator
1956
High Society · as Orchestrator
1955
Kismet · as Music Arranger
1955
It's Always Fair Weather · as Orchestrator
1954
Brigadoon · as Orchestrator
1953
Kiss Me Kate · as Orchestrator
1953
The Band Wagon · as Orchestrator
1952
Singin' in the Rain · as Orchestrator
1950
Stars in My Crown · as Orchestrator
1950
Summer Stock · as Orchestrator
1949
On the Town · as Orchestratorauf plex.tv
1949
The Barkleys of Broadway · as Orchestrator
1949
The Great Sinner · as Orchestrator
1948
Easter Parade · as Orchestrator
1948
The Pirate · as Orchestrator
1946
Till the Clouds Roll By · as Orchestratorauf plex.tv
1946
The Harvey Girls · as Orchestrator
1945
Ziegfeld Follies · as Orchestrator
1944
Meet Me in St. Louis · as Orchestratorauf plex.tv
1944
Gaslight · as Orchestratorauf plex.tv
1943
The Ox-Bow Incident · as Orchestrator
1942
The Black Swan · as Orchestrator
1942
You Were Never Lovelier · as Music Arranger
1942
For Me and My Gal · as Orchestrator
1942
Panama Hattie · as Orchestrator
1942
This Above All · as Orchestrator
1941
Lady Be Good · as Orchestrator
1941
Ziegfeld Girl · as Orchestrator
1940
Andy Hardy Meets Debutante · as Orchestratorauf plex.tv
1938
The Cowboy and the Lady · as Orchestratorauf plex.tv
1931
The Smiling Lieutenant · as Music Arranger