11 Facts About Hugo Riesenfeld

Hugo Riesenfeld was an Austrian-American composer.

In 1907, Hugo Riesenfeld emigrated to New York City, where he worked until 1911 as concert-master for Oscar Hammerstein's Manhattan Opera Company.

Hugo Riesenfeld did his first work in film when he conducted the accompaniment for Jesse L Lasky's production of Carmen.

On 15 April 1923, with inventor Lee de Forest, Hugo Riesenfeld co-presented a show at the Rivoli Theater in New York City of 18 short films made in the Phonofilm sound-on-film process.

In 1923, Hugo Riesenfeld formed The Red Seal Pictures Corporation, partnered with Edwin Miles Fadiman, Dr Lee deForest, and Max Fleischer to distribute American and foreign films through their chain of 36 theaters that extended as far as Cleveland, Ohio.

Hugo Riesenfeld began as one of the first to write original compositions for films.

Hugo Riesenfeld's organist gets $250 a week, 70 orchestra musicians are well-paid because the lowest wage is 70 dollars a week.

Mr Hugo Riesenfeld explains that he must have a dose of 50,000 dollars per week to reach its expenses and to this purpose otherwise it zahle weekly 120,000 spectators as he.

When he wrote the music for the Western movie The Covered Wagon, Hugo Riesenfeld was one of the most frequently employed film composers in Hollywood.

Hugo Riesenfeld composed the ballet Chopin's Dances, the comic opera Merry Martyr, the musical Betty Be Good, Children's Suite and overtures, orchestral music, and songs.

Hugo Riesenfeld died in 1939 in Los Angeles after a severe illness.