Werner Janssen

Werner Janssen (1937) Hans-Werner Janssen (1 Juin 1899 – 19 Septembre 1990) que de l'American conductor of classical music, and composer of classical music and film scores. He was the first New York born conductor to lead the New York Philharmonic. Janssen was born in New York City on 1 Juin 1899. His father was a New York restaurateur, founder of the Janssen Cour de Brassage de la Maison on Broadway. The family lived à Great Neck on King's Point Road next door to musician George M. Cohan. It was Cohan oms encouraged young Werner to continue to play piano et explore his passion for music. Cohan describes the interplay of families as he-unis, "I'll hold to my dying day that Werner became a musician because his dad made him practice the piano all day to keep me awake, just to get even with me for playing all night and keeping him awake." Werner recounts that his first two music students were the daughters of George M. Cohan, whom he taught in their home. As a teenager Werner remembers hearing the first renditions of "Over there" from across the fence between the houses. Cohan reflects on those days writing to Werner s father, "those were golden days when you were singing songs and I was trying to write them down next door—they were in fact the happiest of all any days as I look back on them now." While Janssen filled roles as guest conductor, he was also contractuel to write musique de film. His first credited film score que for The General Died at Dawn (1936), which was nominated for aux Academy Award, the first of six Janssen scored film to be nominated. En 1939, he resigned his position with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra to work with film producteur Walter Wanger. He composed several other film scores including Blocus (1938), Carnaval d'Hiver (1939), Eternally Yours (1939), Slightly Honorable (1940), The House Across the Bay (1940), Guest dans the House (1944), The Southerner (1945), Captain Kidd (1945), A Night in Casablanca (1946), Ruthless (1948), and Uncle Vanya (1957), mettant en vedette and co-directed by Franchot Tone. He was also responsible for the score for the 1966 French television production de Robin des bois, le noble Chevalier (Robin des bois, the Noble Knight). He continued to write non-film compositions too, including the Foster Suite (1937), the String Quartet N ° 2 (1938), the Octet for Five (1965), and the Quintet for 10 Instruments (1968). En 1940, he formed the Janssen Symphony à Los Angeles, which became a rival organization to the Los Angeles Philharmonic and a forum for contemporary music jusqu'en 1952. Compositions for this were commissioned from American composers. This group performed and recorded musique de film, musical theater works, and contemporary musical scores. Numerous recordings were made by Janssen and this orchestra for Capitol Records. Janssen formed a partnership with producteur David L. Loew to produce the Musicolor series of classic musical shorts, including Toccata and Fugue (1946) and Enchanted Lake (1947), both filmed in Cinecolor.