Heinz Kiessling (musician)
Heinz Kiessling (born March 11, 1926 in Nuremberg ; † December 27, 2003 in Starnberg ) was a German musician , orchestra director , composer and music producer who was best known for popular film and television music.
Life
After the end of the war, Heinz Kiessling studied piano, composition and conducting at the Nuremberg Conservatory, and as early as 1949 traveled all over the world as a concert pianist, where he was soon booked as a studio musician for television and vinyl recordings. In 1950 he briefly succeeded Erich Becht as pianist in Kurt Edelhagen's orchestra , for whom Kiessling then worked for a long time as an arranger and composer. In 1954 he wrote for Edelhagen "the first consistent twelve-tone piece that existed in jazz music ." At times he also directed his own orchestra and worked for the RIAS Big Band for many years . Together with the Leipzig pianist Werner Tautz , he founded the label "Brillant" in 1964, on which he published numerous national and international big bands and combos.
Kiessling worked with many national and international stars, including Chet Baker , Luiz Bonfá , Wencke Myhre and Caterina Valente . He accompanied Peter Alexander's shows for over two decades . In addition, Kiessling composed the title and scene music for numerous film and television productions, including Klimbim , Zwei himmlische Töchter , Dingsda , Das Traumschiff and Aktenzeichen XY ... unsolved . Altogether more than 1200 melodies come from his pen, some of which he published on his own records and which made him one of the most successful German "easy listening" composers of the post-war period.
In 1969 he wrote a song with In the Shadow of the Moon directly for Frank Sinatra , who recorded the song (with a text by Earl Brown ) for Reprise , as the theme melody for the TV film Romeo & Juliet '70 co-produced by Sinatra's daughter Tina Sinatra .
His piece Temptation Sensation is the theme song for the American television series It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia .
Web links
- Heinz Kiessling in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cf. Tom Wohlert: Musicians Macher Machos Mafiosi. From the amateur musician to the Cologne studio scene of the 1960s to 1990s. Norderstedt 2010, p. 85.
- ↑ Joachim Ernst Berendt , quoted from Reiner Kobe: Big Bands in North Rhine-Westphalia: Edelhagen, Clarke-Boland and JugendJazzOrchester. In: Robert von Zahn (ed.): Jazz in North Rhine-Westphalia since 1946. Emons-Verlag, Cologne 1999, pp. 158–173
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kiessling, Heinz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German musician, orchestra leader, composer and music producer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 11, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nuremberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 27, 2003 |
| Place of death | Starnberg |