Name Hans Salter | Role Film composer | |
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Albums Malpertuis / Horror Rhapsody Nominations Academy Award for Best Original Music Score, Academy Award for Best Original Musical Similar People Frank Skinner, Herman Stein, Heinz Roemheld, Roy Webb, David Buttolph | ||
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Hans J. Salter (January 14, 1896 in Vienna – July 23, 1994 in Studio City, Cal.) was an Austrian-American film composer.
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- The last of the fast guns score suite hans j salter and herman stein
- Hans j salter frank skinner the invisible man returns original motion picture soundtrack
- Biography
- Selected film credits
- Interview
- Additional reading
- References
Hans j salter frank skinner the invisible man returns original motion picture soundtrack
Biography
Salter gained his education from the Vienna Academy Of Music, and studied composition with Alban Berg, Franz Schreker, and others. He worked for the State Opera in Berlin before being hired in 1928 to compose music at UFA studios. Salter emigrated to America in 1937 and was quickly put under contract at Universal, where he worked for nearly 30 years, arranging, composing, conducting, and serving as musical director.
He composed mainly for Universal, most famously for horror and science fiction films but also for other studios and for television. His most celebrated scores include The Wolf Man (1941), Scarlet Street (1945), Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) and The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957). Salter was nominated for a number of Academy Awards, including Christmas Holiday (1944) and This Love Of Ours (1945). Much of his output for Universal was uncredited, as it became stock music, used time and time again in minor pictures. Notable non-horror scores include the Western Bend of the River (1953) and the Swashbuckler Against All Flags (1952).
Salter died in Studio City, California on July 23, 1994, at the age of 98, and was interred in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.