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Adolph Sender Charles Deutsch (20 October 1897 – 1 January 1980) was a British-American composer, conductor and arranger. Born in London, England, he emigrated to the United States in 1911, and settled in Buffalo, New York. His parents, Alex (Alexander) Deutsch and Dena née Gerst, were German Jews.
Adolph Deutsch. Composer: Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. London-born piano child prodigy Adolph Deutsch trained at the Royal Academy of Music from the age of eight and composed his first piece, a waltz for piano, entitled "La Charmeuse", two years later.
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Learn about the music of The Apartment (1960), a classic comedy by Billy Wilder, composed by Adolph Deutsch and others. Discover the origin and use of the famous "Theme from The Apartment" and other tunes in the film and the soundtrack album.
Adolph Deutsch (* 20. Oktober 1897 in London; † 1. Januar 1980 in Palm Desert, Kalifornien) war ein britisch-amerikanischer Komponist des Symphonic Jazz und der Filmmusik
Beginning in the 1920s, he scored some 300 Broadway musicals over 40 years, including the works of Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers, Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, and Frederick Loewe, and such hit shows as Show Boat, Anything Goes, Kiss Me Kate, South Pacific, My Fair Lady, and The Sound of Music.
Adolph Deutsch is known as an Original Music Composer, Music, Music Director, Conductor, Actor, Orchestrator, Music Supervisor, Music Arranger, and Additional Music. Some of his work includes Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, The Maltese Falcon, Funny Face, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, High Sierra, Little Women, and The Band Wagon.
Adolph Deutsch was one of those great unrecognized talents who collectively worked behind the scenes to help create the great MGM musicals of the 1950s. Deutsch worked on nearly all of them. He was nominated for Academy Awards for scoring The Band Wagon from Arthur Freed's unit, and he won Oscars for his work on two minor musical efforts, Annie ...
