Hugo Riesenfeld

Nacimiento : 1879-01-26, Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]

Muerte : 1939-09-10

Historia

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). Born in Vienna, Riesenfeld's musical career began at the age of seven with a violin study at the Conservatory of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in his city of birth, 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. He did his first work in film when he conducted the accompaniment for Jesse L. Lasky's production of Carmen (1915). On 15 April 1923, with inventor Lee de Forest, Riesenfeld co-presented a show at the Rivoli Theater in New York City of 18 short films made in the Phonofilm sound-on-film process. Riesenfeld died in 1939 in Los Angeles after a severe illness. His daughter Janet starred in some Mexican movies as a dancer and actress under the pseudonym Raquel Rojas and Janet Alcorzia and later became a screenwriter.

Películas

The Making of 'The Last Laugh'
Music
This movie was featured on the DVD release of Der letzte Mann in 2004 in Germany.
Sunset Murder Case
Music Director
Small-time showgirl poses as a stripper to infiltrate a nightclub whose owner is believed responsible for her father's murder.
Sunset Murder Case
Original Music Composer
Small-time showgirl poses as a stripper to infiltrate a nightclub whose owner is believed responsible for her father's murder.
Locura de la marihuana
Original Music Composer
El Dr. Alfred Carroll, director de un instituto, relata a una audiencia de padres que la marihuana puede tener efectos devastadores en los adolescentes: un proveedor de drogas atrae a varios adolescentes inquietos, Mary y Jimmy Lane, hermana y hermano, y a Bill, el novio de Mary, para que frecuenten un fumadero. Poco a poco, Bill y Jimmy se ven arrastrados a fumar droga, lo que afecta a su vida familiar.
La venganza de Tarzán
Music
La joven Eleanor y sus padres van de caza mayor acompañados por el novio de ella, adentrándose en la peligrosa jungla africana. Ben Bey, un despótico jefe de la zona, quiere añadirla a su harén de 100 mujeres, pero Tarzán, que se ha enamorado de Eleanor, intentará mantenerla alejada de los problemas ante la cobardía de su novio.
Gunsmoke Ranch
Original Music Composer
A crooked real estate manipulator sells worthless land on mortgage to flood refugees, then tries to profit by reselling the land to the state, committing murder in the process, as the Three Mesquiteers work to bring him and his gang to justice.
The Mandarin Mystery
Original Music Composer
Ellery Queen solves a mystery involving a valuable stamp.
The Devil on Horseback
Original Music Composer
This musical tells the story of Campo wooing Damita from Keating with songs "So Divine," "Out of the Hills," "The Love Fiesta," "Oh Bella Mia."
Revolt of the Zombies
Music
The story is set in Cambodia in the years following WWI. Evil Count Mazovia (Roy D'Arcy) has come into possession of the secret methods by which men can be transformed into walking zombies and uses these unholy powers to create a race of slave laborers. An expedition is sent to the ruins of Angkor Wat, in hopes of ending Mazovia's activities once and for all. Unfortunately, Armand (Dean Jagger), one of the members of the expedition, has his own agenda.
The President Vanishes
Original Music Composer
The President Vanishes, released in the United Kingdom as Strange Conspiracy, is a 1934 American political drama film directed by William A. Wellman and produced by Walter Wanger. Starring Edward Arnold and Arthur Byron, the film is an adaptation of Rex Stout's political novel of the same name.
Two Heads on a Pillow
Original Music Composer
A lawyer handing a divorce case discovers the attorney for the opposition is his ex-wife.
The Wandering Jew
Music Director
Old Jerusalem: Matathias, spiteful over his lover's illness, spits on Jesus along the road to Calvary, and is cursed to live endlessly until His return. The Crusades, 1150: Matathias, now an anonymous knight, competes for glory in combat and for the wife of a soldier. Palermo, 1290: Matteos Battadios witnesses the death of his young son, leading to conflict with his wife over whether to take comfort in Christianity. Seville, 1560: Dr Matteos Battadios dedicates himself to the treatment and comfort of the poor, but his life and work are endangered by the arrival of the Spanish Inquisition.
Tabú
Original Music Composer
Última película de Murnau, que empezó como una colaboración para escribir y dirigir conjuntamente con el famoso documentalista Robert J. Flaherty, aunque por diversos problemas sólo la firmó Murnau. Rodada en Tahití y Bora-Bora retrata en forma casi de documental, al igual que "Nanook of the North" hacía con los esquimales, las costumbres y modo de vida de la gente del pacífico sur.
Los ángeles del infierno
Music
Dos hermanos ingleses se alistan en las fuerzas aéreas británicas durante la I Guerra Mundial. El objetivo de sus proezas será conquistar el corazón de una hermosa joven.
Abraham Lincoln
Music
La primera película hablada del maestro D.W. Griffith hace un repaso a la vida del famoso presidente norteamericano.
One Romantic Night
Music Arranger
A princess is forced to choose between a charming tutor and a rakish prince.
This Is Heaven
Music
This film was released in both silent and sound versions.
Bulldog Drummond
Music Director
Bulldog Drummond is a British WWI veteran who longs for some excitement after he returns to the humdrum existence of civilian life. He gets what he's looking for when a girl requests his help in freeing her uncle from a nursing home. She believes the home is just a front and that her uncle is really being held captive while the culprits try to extort his fortune from him.
Alibi
Music Arranger
Chick Williams, a prohibition gangster, rejoins his mob soon after being released from prison. When a policeman is murdered during a robbery, he falls under suspicion. The gangster took Joan, a policeman's daughter, to the theater, sneaked out during the intermission to commit the crime, then used her to support his alibi. The detective squad employs its most sophisticated and barbaric techniques, including planting an undercover agent in the gang, to bring him to justice.
Coqueta
Sound
Una coqueta belleza sureña está comprometida con uno de sus galanes.
Lucky Boy
Music
A young Jewish man works in his father's jewelry business, but he doesn't like it at all--he wants to be an entertainer, something he knows that his father would never approve of. He comes up with a scheme to put on his own show in a theater and show his father that he can be a success, but things don't work out quite as well as he planned.
The Rescue
Music
The English adventurer Tom Lingard gets involved with islanders on a South Seas island, and he also gets involved with Lady Edith and Mr. Travers, a sailing English couple. Tom has an unexpected love affair with Edith and while they are having this affair, Lady Edith husband's boat is destroyed and he is killed.
The Awakening
Music
En Alsacia, justo antes de la Guerra Mundial, se ve a Marie Ducrot, una hermosa y virtuosa campesina que se enamora del Conde Karl von Hagen, un teniente del ejército alemán, visitando a Karl en sus aposentos, y una multitud enojada de habitantes arroja piedras y maldiciones a ella. Marie, reportada erróneamente muerta, se convierte en novicia en una orden religiosa. Estalla la guerra y von Hagen resulta herido en un combate cerca del convento de Marie; Marie lo cuida y la convence de que regrese a Alemania con él. Le Bête, un sargento del ejército francés que conocen, les ayuda a alcanzar las líneas y la seguridad alemanas. Le Bête es asesinado por la bala de un francotirador, y Marie y Karl se preparan para un futuro mejor.
La batalla de los sexos
Original Music Composer
Un respetable hombre de negocios y padre de familia, pierde la cabeza por una rubia callejera.
La mujer disputada
Original Music Composer
La joven Mary Ann Wagner promete al oficial austríaco Paul Hartman que contraerá matrimonio con él, lo que enfurece a Nika Turgenov, un oficial ruso. Cuando estalla la guerra austro-rusa, el pueblo donde vive Mary Ann es conquistado por los rusos.
Tempest
Original Music Composer
In the final days of Czarist Russia, a peasant is raised from the ranks to Lieutenant. The other officers, aristocrats all, resent him, and make his life difficult. He falls in love with a princess, who spurns him. When he is caught in her room, he is stripped of his rank and thrown into prison. Then comes the Red Terror, and the tables are turned.
Ramona
Music
Ramona, una joven mestiza, aunque ella lo ignora, vive en la hacienda de la señora Moreno, quien la adoptó, con el hijo de ésta, a quien Ramona considera como un hermano. Todo cambiará cuando llegue Alessandro, el jefe de los esquiladores de ovejas.
Amanecer
Original Music Composer
Un granjero convive felizmente en el campo con su esposa. Pero la aparición de una seductora mujer de la ciudad hace que comience a enamorarse de ésta, y a pensar que su mujer es un estorbo que se interpone en la felicidad entre él y su nueva y sofisticada amante.
El escuadrón de hierro
Music
La historia de la unidad militar organizada por el futuro presidente de los Estados Unidos, Teddy Roosevelt, y sus aventuras en Cuba durante la Guerra Hispanoamericana de 1898.
El Legado Tenebroso
Original Music Composer
Rich old Cyrus West's relatives are waiting for him to die so they can inherit. But he stipulates that his will be read 20 years after his death. On the appointed day his expectant heirs arrive at his brooding mansion. The will is read and it turns out that Annabelle West, the only heir with his name left, inherits, if she is deemed sane. If she isn't, the money and some diamonds go to someone else, whose name is in a sealed envelope. Before he can reveal the identity of her successor to Annabelle, Mr. Crosby, the lawyer, disappears. The first in a series of mysterious events, some of which point to Annabelle in fact being unstable.
Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness
Original Music Composer
Elephants disrupt the lives of a family deep in the jungles of Northern Siam, and an entire village.
The Sorrows of Satan
Music
Geoffrey is desperately in love with Mavis, who lives at his boardinghouse and is also pursuing a writing career. Unable to marry her because of his poverty, in his anger he curses God for abandoning him. Soon Geoffrey meets Prince Lucio de Rimanez, a wealthy, urbane gentleman who informs Geoffrey that he has inherited a fortune, but that he must place himself in the Prince's hands in order to enjoy the fruits of his inheritance. What Geoffrey doesn't know is that Prince Lucio is actually Satan.
Beggar on Horseback
Music
Neil McRae, an impoverished composer, loves Cynthia Mason, but, fearing poverty, proposes to wealthy Gladys Cady. Can he compose himself and find the courage to seek love over comfort?
Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life
Music Arranger
A silent documentary which follows a branch of the Bakhtiari tribe of Persia as they and their herds make their epic seasonal journey to better pastures.
The Swan
Music
The Swan (1925) is a silent film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film is based on Melville Baker's 1923 Broadway play adaptation, The Swan, of Ferenc Molnar's play A Hattyu Vigjatek Harom Felvonasbarn. This film was directed by Dimitri Buchowetzki, a recent Russian immigrant working for Famous Players-Lasky. Buchowetzki had directed pictures in Russia, Sweden, and Germany. The story of this film was remade in 1930 as One Romantic Night, an early talkie for Lillian Gish, and in Technicolor as a 1956 vehicle for Grace Kelly.
Bella Donna
Music
Bella Donna, a seductive woman snares Nigel Armine into marriage and he takes her to Egypt to live. Tired of her simple husband, Bella becomes involved with brutish Baroudi.
Conrad in Quest of His Youth
Original Music Composer
Conrad Warrener, a man of near middle-age, reflects nostalgically on the happy times of his youth and decides to recapture them. However, what he learns about the "second time around" is neither what he expected nor what he hoped for.
Humoresque
Original Music Composer
Young Leon Kanter dreams of being a great violinist. His parents scrape up the money for a violin and for lessons, and Leon rewards them by becoming a great player. But as an adult, Leon finds that people want more from him than just music.
Woman
Music
A series of stories reflecting the changing position of women in the world, including the familiar tales of Adam and Eve, Messalina and Claudius, Abelard and Heloise, Cyrene and the Fisherman, as well as that of a young girl and an officer in the American Civil War.
Hoodoo Ann
Original Music Composer
A teenage orphan is taken in by a childless couple and quickly falls for the boy next door.