Werner Janssen

Werner Janssen (1937) Hans-Werner Janssen (1 de Junio de 1899 – 19 de Septiembre de 1990), lo que es en American director of classical music, and composer of classical music and film scores. He was the first New York born conductor to lead the New York Philharmonic. Janssen was born in New York City on 1 de Junio de 1899. His father was a Nueva York restaurador, founder of the Janssen Patio Cervecero Casa on Broadway. The family lived en Great Neck on King's Point Road, next door to músico George M. Cohan. It ¿qué Cohan oms encouraged young Werner to continue to play piano and explore his passion for music. Cohan describes the interplay of families as he unidos, "I'll hold to my dying day that Werner became a musician because his papá made him practice the piano all day to keep me awake, just to get even with me playing for all night and keeping him awake." Werner recounts that his first two music students were the daughters of George M. Cohan, whom he taught in their home. As a adolescentes Werner guanta recuerda hearing the first renditions of "Over there" from across the fence between the houses. Cohan reflects on those days writing to Werner's padre, "those were golden days when you were cantando la canción and I was trying to write them down next door—they were in fact, the happiest any of all days as I look back on them now." While Janssen filled roles as guest director, he was also precio del contrato to write película music. His first credited película score was for The General Died at Dawn (1936), which was nominated for a Premio de la Academia, the first of six Janssen scored película to be nominated. En 1939, pp resigned his position with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra to work with película productor Walter Wanger. He integrada por varios other película puntuaciones including Bloqueo (1938), Winter Carnival (1939), Eternamente Tuya (1939), Slightly Honorable (1940), The House Across the Bay (1940), Guest in the House (1944), The Southerner (1945), el Capitán Kidd (1945), A la de una noche en Casablanca (1946), Ruthless (1948), and Uncle Vanya (1957), protagonizada y co-dirigida por Franchot Tone. He was así responsible for the score for the 1966 Spanish television production Robin Hood, el noble Caballero (Robin Hood, the Noble Knight). He continued to write non-película compositions too, including the Foster Suite (1937), the String Quartet no 2 (1938), the Octet for Five (1965), and the Quintet for 10 Instruments (1968). En 1940, pp formed the Janssen Symphony en Los Ángeles, which became a su rival, organization to the Los Angeles Philharmonic and a forum for contemporary music until 1952. Compositions for this were commissioned from American composers. This group performed and recorded película, música, teatro musical works and contemporary musical de partituras. Numerous recordings were made by Janssen and this for orchestra Capitol Records. Janssen formed a partnership with productor David L. Loew'to produce the Musicolor series of classic musical cortos, including Toccata and Fugue (1946) and Enchanted Lake (1947), both filmed en Cinecolor.