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Alfred Newman (March 17, 1900 – February 17, 1970) was an American composer, arranger, and conductor of film music. In a career spanning more than four decades, Newman composed the scores for over 200 motion pictures. His most famous scores include ''Wuthering Heights'', ''The Hunchback of Notre Dame'', ''The Mark of Zorro'', ''How Green Was My Valley'', ''The Song of Bernadette'', ''Captain from Castile'', ''All About Eve'', ''Love is a Many Splendored Thing'', ''Anastasia'', ''The Diary of Anne Frank'', ''How The West Was Won'', ''The Greatest Story Ever Told'', and his final score, ''Airport'', all of which were nominated for or won Academy Awards. Newman was also highly regarded as a conductor, and arranged and conducted many scores by other composers. In addition, he conducted the music for many film adaptations of Broadway musicals (having worked on Broadway for ten years before coming to Hollywood), as well as many original Hollywood musicals. Along with such composers as Max Steiner, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, and Franz Waxman, Newman was among the first composers to write original music for motion pictures, although unlike most of his colleagues, Newman did not write any music other than for film. He was one of the most respected film score composers of his time, and is today regarded as one of the greatest musicians ever to work in film. His nine Academy Award wins remains the record for a composer, while his total of forty-three nominations makes him the third-most nominated individual after Walt Disney and John Williams.〔("Nominee Facts - Most Nominations and Awards" ), ''Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences''; retrieved November 30, 2015.〕 ==Early life== The eldest of ten children, Newman was born in New Haven, Connecticut. A musical prodigy, he began studying piano at the age of five with Sigismund Stojowski, and walked a ten-mile round trip every day to practise on a neighbour's piano.〔("Alfred Newman (1901-1970) - head of a musical dynasty" ), mfiles U.K.〕 He was able to supplement his poor family's income by playing in theaters and restaurants. He traveled the vaudeville circuit with performer Grace LaRue, billed as "The Marvelous Boy Pianist". He also studied composition with Rubin Goldmark. By the age of twenty he was in New York, beginning a ten-year career on Broadway as the conductor of musicals by composers such as George Gershwin, Richard Rodgers, and Jerome Kern. Then, in 1930, he accompanied Irving Berlin to Hollywood.〔(Biography of Alfred Newman ), Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary〕 In Los Angeles, he had private lessons from Arnold Schoenberg. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alfred Newman (composer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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