Adolph Deutsch (October 20, 1897 - January 1, 1980) was an Academy Award-winning composer, songwriter, conductor and arranger. He won Oscars for his music for Oklahoma! (1955), Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) and Annie Get Your Gun (1950). The London, England-born Deutsch was also nominated for The Band Wagon (1953) and Show Boat (1951). In addition to westerns and musicals, Deutsch also composed for films noir including The Mask of Dimitrios (1944), The Maltese Falcon (1941), Nobody Lives Forever (1946), The Apartment(1960), and Some Like it Hot (1959) Deutsch began his composing career on Broadway in the 1920s and 1930s before working for Hollywood films beginning in the late 1930s. He retired in 1961. October 20 is the 293rd day of the year (294th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 72 days remaining. ... 1897 (MDCCCXCVII) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... January 1 is the first day of the calendar year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars. ... 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... Academy Award The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent film awards in the United States and most watched awards ceremony in the world. ... Oklahoma! (1943) was the first musical play written by composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist/librettist Oscar Hammerstein II (see Rodgers and Hammerstein). ... Seven Brides for Seven Brothers is a musical film released in 1954. ... Annie Get Your Gun is a stage musical loosely based on the life of sharpshooter Annie Oakley. ... London — containing the City of London — is the capital of the United Kingdom and of England and a major world city. With over seven million inhabitants (Londoners) in Greater London area, it is amongst the most densely populated areas in Western Europe. ... The Band Wagon is a musical comedy film, released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1953, which tells the story of an aging musical star who wants to star in a Broadway play that will restart his career. ... Show Boat is a musical in two acts with music by Jerome Kern and book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II (with the notable exception of Bill, which was originally written for Kern in 1918 by P. G. Wodehouse but reworked by Hammerstein for Show Boat). ... The Mask of Dimitrios (U.S. title: A Coffin for Dimitrios) (1939) is a novel by Eric Ambler. ... Actors Bogart, Lorre, Astor and Greenstreet in The Maltese Falcon (1941) The Maltese Falcon (1930) is a detective novel by Dashiell Hammett that has been adapted several times for the cinema. ... Nobody Lives Forever is a 1946 black-and-white film based on the novel I Wasnt Born Yesterday by W.R. Burnett. ... The Apartment is a 1960 romantic comedy-drama directed by Billy Wilder, and starring Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, and Fred MacMurray. ... Some Like It Hot is a 1959 comedy film cowritten and directed by Billy Wilder. ...
AdolphDeutsch is not a name that looms too large in the field of soundtrack music, this despite the fact that he made his career in Hollywood for nearly 25 years, from 1938 until 1961, and worked in every idiom from crime dramas to big-budget musicals.
On the positive side, Deutsch was excellent at setting moods using short cues, whether lighthearted, as in the comedy George Washington Slept Here, or dark and serious, as in The Maltese Falcon and, even more so, The Mask of Dimitrios.
They all work well as freestanding music, despite Deutsch's tendency to slip into musical conventions; Deutsch also occasionally slips into the Steiner mode of relying on anthems and other familiar signature material as shorthand, but it's no more obtrusive here than it is on Steiner's work.
Born in London, England, in 1897, AdolphDeutsch started piano lessons at the age of five and discovered that he had absolute pitch at the age of seven.
Deutsch came to the United States in 1910 at the age of thirteen and immediately became intrigued with the sounds of American popular music.
In the early 1930s Deutsch had freelanced on Broadway, orchestrating and conducting for musicals for Gershwin, Irving Berlin, and Rodgers and Hart.
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