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Hugo Riesenfeld (January 26, 1879 – September 10, 1939) was a Jewish〔Hans Morgenstern: Jüdisches biographisches Lexikon, LIT Verlag, Wien〕 Austrian-American composer. As a film director, he began to write his own orchestral compositions for silent films in 1917, and co-created modern production techniques where film scoring serves an integral part of the action. Riesenfeld composed about 100 film scores in his career. His most successful compositions were for Cecil B. DeMille's ''Joan the Woman'' (1917), ''The Ten Commandments'' (1923) and ''The King of Kings'' (1927); D. W. Griffith's ''Abraham Lincoln'' (1930); and the original scores to F. W. Murnau's ''Sunrise'' (1927) and ''Tabu'' (1931). == Life and work == Hugo Riesenfeld's musical career began at the age of seven with a violin study at the Conservatory of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna, where he graduated at the age of 17 in piano, violin and composition degrees. He briefly played in the Vienna Philharmonic. By the end of the 19th century, he was playing with Arnold Schönberg, Arthur Bodanzky, and Edward Falck in a local string quartet. In 1907, Riesenfeld emigrated to New York City, where he worked until 1911 as concert-master for Oscar Hammerstein's Manhattan Opera Company. He served three seasons as bandleader of the musical company, Klaw & Erlanger, followed by a stint as concertmaster and conductor at the Century Opera. He did his first work in film when he conducted the accompaniment for Jesse L. Lasky's production of ''Carmen'' (1915). Succeeding Samuel Lionel Rothafel—later known as "Roxy" Rothafel—as conductor of the Broadway theaters the Rivoli, the Rialto, and the Criterion, he conducted from 1917 to 1925, introducing the practice of long-run resident film musicians. The cinemas were among the first, where runs of longer than a week. In 1923, an article about Riesenfeld stated, "occasionally ten weeks the same piece with undiminished force - so knows he his audience" in a New York City article wrote the Viennese magazines about Riesenfeld. "He says, know the audience and know what you must show him, ever the secret of success at the theater and cinema." () "just customize and know what's there and what 'draws'." 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「Hugo Riesenfeld」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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