Heinz Eric Roemheld
Heinz Eric Roemheld ( born May 1, 1901 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; † 11 February 1985 in Huntington Beach, California ) was an American film composer and arranger with German roots.
Biography
Roemheld grew up as one of four children of a pharmacist Heinrich Roemheld and his wife Fanny Rauterberg Roemheld in the embossed by Germans Milwaukee. He came from a musical family. His brother Edgar worked as conductor, his sister Irmgard as a music teacher and radio presenter and he learned from his four years playing the piano.
At age 19, he completed his musical education at the Wisconsin College of Music and played in theaters in order to fund a study visit in Germany can. In 1920 he went to Germany and studied in various conservatories in Berlin, including Rudolf Maria Breithaupt, Hugo Kaun, Ferruccio Busoni and Egon Petri. Making his first appearance as a pianist he had in 1922 with the Berlin Philharmonic. From 1922 to 1926 he worked as a composer and musical director for several film companies such as the music and film publishing RCA Victor. During this time, Franz Waxman was a later prize-winning the Oscar composer, worked for Roemheld. There he met Bernhard Kaun, at whose father he had completed his training, know.
1927 Roemheld went back to the United States and was employed by Universal as a composer and arranger. One of his first works was the setting of the American version of The White Hell of Pitz Palu and the musical collaboration on the Western Front. 1930 Bernhard Kaun came to the United States and was mediated by Roemheld at Universal. Both worked together, especially in the 1930s, including on the new scoring of The Midnight Sun, as well as British Agent and murder in a nightclub.
In 1934 he got his first job as a film composer for the horror classic The Black Cat. In the following years he worked then amplified for Warner Bros. for the film fairest of the city in 1942, he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Score. A year later he won the trophy for Yankee Doodle Dandy. After the movie, he signed on with Columbia Pictures, where he set several western with Randolph Scott in the lead role.
After the 1962 film My wacky best friend, he ended his 30-year career in which he had appeared in over 250 films.