Name Gerard Carbonara | Role Composer | |
Died January 11, 1959, Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, California, United States Nominations Academy Award for Best Original Music Score Music director Stagecoach, The Shepherd of the Hills, Dr Cyclops, The Monster and the Girl, The Big Wheel Similar People Ernest Haycox, Dudley Nichols, Friedrich Hollaender, Victor Young, Richard Hageman | ||
Stagecoach Suite (From "La chevauchée fantastique")
Gerard Carbonara (born December 8, 1886, New York City, New York; d. January 11, 1959, Sherman Oaks, California) was an American composer, conductor, opera coach and concert violinist.
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He received his formal music education at the National Conservatory of Music in New York on a scholarship. In 1908 he travelled abroad to Naples, Italy, where he continued his studies at the Naples Conservatory with composer Martucci Dworczak. He was employed as an opera coach in Milan in 1910. Later, he toured Europe as a concert violinist and conducted operas throughout Europe and, later, the United States of America.
Carbonara began his film music career at the end of the silent film era. In the 1930s and 1940s he scored numerous films at Paramount Pictures, including American Empire, The Shepherd of the Hills, as well as a series of Mutt and Jeff cartoons (with co-composer James Bradford). Carbonara composed several cues for Stagecoach (1939), but did not receive screen credit because of a clause in his contract. Although the score, which featured the music of several composers, won an Oscar, Carbonara was not counted among the winners. However, he was nominated for The Kansan in 1943. In the 1940s, especially after World War II, he composed and arranged music for short films. Carbonara often worked closely with his colleague John Leipold.
In addition to his film scores Carbonara's oeuvre includes many serious works, among them an opera ("Armand"), individual pieces for solo piano ("Danse Fantastique", "Rhapsodie", "Hollywood Boulevard", "An American Tone Sketch", "Minuet" and "Petite Valse"), duos for violin and piano ("Aria", "Serenata Gotica", "Alla Tarantella" and "Dusk") and symphony orchestra ("Ode to Nature", "Concerto Orientale" and "Scherzetto Fantasia").