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Heinz Roemheld
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision Born: May 1, 1901 in Milwaukee, WI Death: February 11, 1985 in Hunington Beach, FL Biography:"Heinz Roemheld" may never have achieved the recognition accorded such colleagues as "Bernard Herrmann", "Miklos Rozsa", "Max Steiner", "Alfred Newman", or "Erich Wolfgang Korngold", but in a 24-year career in Hollywood he scored or contributed to the scoring of over 400 feature films, some of them still very well-known to general audiences, cineastes, or genre enthusiasts. He was born in Milwaukee, WI, and was a child prodigy, taking up the piano at the age of four and graduating from Milwaukee's College of Music at 19. Roemheld desired to study in Europe and took up performing in theaters to earn the money that he needed. In 1920, he got to Berlin and became a student of Ferrucio Busoni and Egon Petri, among other notable musicians, and made his debut as a guest soloist with the Berlin Philharmonic at the age of 22. He returned to America and began earning part of his living as a movie theater... Full Biography
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