Hugo Riesenfeld
Sound

Hugo Riesenfeld

Born 26 January 1879 · Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria] · Died 10 September 1939

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Hugo Riesenfeld (January 26, 1879 – September 10, 1939) was an 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).

Known for

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Tabu: A Story of the South Seas
Tell Your Children
Hell's Angels
The Cat and the Canary
Abraham Lincoln
Revolt of the Zombies
Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness
The Mandarin Mystery
Tempest
The Taming of the Shrew
Tarzan's Revenge
The Making of 'The Last Laugh'
Café Concordia
Tell Your Children
Sunset Murder Case
Tarzan's Revenge
Gunsmoke Ranch
Make a Wish
Larceny on the Air
The Mandarin Mystery
The Devil on Horseback
Revolt of the Zombies
The President's Mystery
Ghost Town Gold
The Big Show
The President Vanishes
Two Heads on a Pillow
Tabu: A Story of the South Seas
Abraham Lincoln
Hell's Angels
The Wizard's Apprentice
One Romantic Night
The Rescue
This Is Heaven
Lucky Boy
The Taming of the Shrew
Evangeline
Tempest
The Awakening
The Woman Disputed
Sins of the Fathers
The Battle of the Sexes
Ramona
The Cavalier
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness
The Rough Riders
The Cat and the Canary
The Sorrows of Satan
Beggar on Horseback
The Swan
The Pony Express
Bella Donna
Reputation
Conrad in Quest of His Youth
Humoresque
Woman
Hoodoo Ann
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