American movie music composers biography wikipedia

Williams has composed the music and served as music director for more than one hundred films. In , he adapted the score for the film version of Fiddler on the Roof , for which he composed original violin cadenzas for renowned virtuoso Isaac Stern. Born and raised in New York, Mr. Williams moved to Los Angeles with his family in , where he studied composition with Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco.

While in New York, he also worked as a jazz pianist, both in nightclubs and on recordings.

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He returned to Los Angeles and began his career in the film industry, working with a number of accomplished composers including Bernard Herrmann, Alfred Newman, and Franz Waxman. He went on to write music for more than television episodes for anthology series Alcoa Premiere , Kraft Suspense Theatre , Chrysler Theatre and Playhouse In addition to his activity in film and television, Mr.

Williams has composed numerous works for the concert stage, among them two symphonies, and concertos for flute, violin, clarinet, viola, oboe and tuba. Seven for Luck , a seven-piece song cycle for soprano and orchestra based on the texts of former U. At the opening concert of their — season, James Levine led the Boston Symphony in the premiere Mr.

In January , Mr.