Gerhard Heinz

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Gerhard Heinz (born September 9, 1927 in Vienna ) is an Austrian composer , pianist and songwriter who wrote the music for countless entertainment films from the 1960s to the 1980s.

Life

Heinz had attended the Technical University in his hometown of Vienna and also worked as a hobby musician. In 1950 he became a member of Horst Winter's orchestra and four years later Kapellmeister at the Moulin Rouge . In 1958, the music producer Gerhard Mendelson engaged him as a unit manager at the Vienna branch of Polydor . In the following years, Heinz also worked in this role outside of Austria, including in France , Italy and the USA .

In these early years, Heinz had preferred to work in the hit, and later in the pop music business. For the singer Connie Francis he wrote the German text of her US success ' Till I Kissed You (1959) under the title Until we kissed. Other artists temporarily supervised by Heinz were Peter Kraus , Domenico Modugno and Freddy Quinn . In 1976 he contributed the music to the song My Little World , Austria's contribution to the Grand Prix Eurovision de la Chanson performed by the duo Waterloo & Robinson . Heinz had already founded his own recording studio in 1964.

At the beginning of the 1960s, Gerhard Heinz also turned to film music, and since the end of the same decade he has concentrated primarily on this area. Heinz wrote the scores for over a hundred films. This is often very simple entertainment: comedy games, comedies and, since the mid-1970s, a considerable number of soft sex strips. Often directed by Austrian entertainment film veterans such as Franz Antel , Peter Weck , Franz Marischka , Franz Josef Gottlieb and Hubert Frank. For the production company Lisa Film of his compatriot Karl Spiehs , for whom Heinz had worked regularly since the end of 1968, the Viennese also composed the music for several box-office comedies with Thomas Gottschalk in the 1980s .

Film music (selection)

annotation

  1. ↑ http://www.discogs.com/artist/341743

literature

  • Jürgen Wölfer, Roland Löper: The great lexicon of film composers . Berlin 2003, p. 229 f.

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personal data
SURNAME Heinz, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian composer, lyricist and pianist
DATE OF BIRTH September 9, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna