Conrad Salinger
Conrad Salinger ( born August 30, 1901 in Brookline, Massachusetts, † June 17, 1962 in Pacific Palisades, California ) was an American composer, arranger and conductor. He created several well-known musical works for the cinema of the 1950s, including compositions for movies like Mississippi melody, you and no other, that time in Paris or Life is a lie.
Life and career
Conrad Salinger was born in 1901 in Brookline, Massachusetts. As musical graduate of Harvard in 1923, Salinger soon came to Europe and studied at the Paris Conservatory under André Gedalge. In 1929 he returned from France to the United States, where he took a job as an arranger for Harms music publishing house in New York. As an arranger, he quickly with all popular musical styles familiar with what distinguished him from 1932 to 1937 in his work as a versatile arranger on Broadway. In 1937 he went to Hollywood. In 1938, MGM him as orchestrator and composer, long-term contract. At the beginning of his career, Salinger was still working often in the background without musical credits or mention in the film. Often, the scope of activities defined in collaboration with Roger Edens and under the auspices of the production unit by Arthur Freed. Only in the late 1940s he came into the limelight himself with his own compositions. Since 1948, Salinger wrote the music for such films as Summer Holiday, Lawyer of the crime, Stronger than chains, you and no other, The Scarlet skirt or Gaby. At the end of the 1950s, Salinger wrote back then mainly the music for television films and television series. In 1951 he was honored along with Adolph German for his work for the musical melody of Mississippi director George Sidney with an Oscar nomination.
Salinger wrote in his career the music for about a dozen Kinofilmem, orchestrated the music for 140 movies, and drove beyond for over 30 productions with additional music for the film without having to find mention in the credits. Together with composer and arranger Johnny Green he belonged in the 1940s and 1950s, the most prominent representatives of his profession in Hollywood. Salinger died on June 17, 1962 of a heart attack in his sleep. He was 60 years old.