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Bronisław Kaper est un Acteur et Son Polonais né le 5 février 1902 à Varsovie (Pologne)
Bronisław Kaper (February 5, 1902 – April 26, 1983) was a Polish film composer who scored films and musical theater in Germany, France, and the USA. The American immigration authorities misspelled his name as Bronislau Kaper. He was also variously credited as Bronislaw Kaper, Bronislaw Kapper, Benjamin Kapper, and Edward Kane.
Kaper is now perhaps best remembered as the composer of the jazz standards "On Green Dolphin Street" (lyrics by Ned Washington) and "Invitation" (lyrics by Paul Francis Webster) which were originally the respective title tracks for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's films Green Dolphin Street (1947) and Invitation (1952). He also scored the MGM film musical Lili (1953) and the TV series The F.B.I. (1965–1974).
In Berlin, in the late 1920s, Kaper met another young composer, the Austrian Walter Jurmann. The two decided to work as a team, first in Berlin and then, after the Nazis took power in Germany, in Paris. The emergence of sound film created a major market for their talents. In Paris, they composed music for films directed by persons who had fled Hitler.
In 1935, upon being offered a seven-year contract with MGM by Louis B. Mayer, Kaper and Jurmann emigrated to the United States, where they continued their work. One of their first American films was the Marx Brothers comedy A Night at the Opera (1935), for which they scored the song "Cosi-Cosa". Kaper went on to compose the music for nearly 150 Hollywood movies, and won an Oscar for the musical Lili. His score for the Orson Welles film The Stranger (1946) is an interesting example of how much the soundtrack can contribute to a classic Hollywood film. With Walter Jurmann he co-wrote the theme song for the 1936 film San Francisco, and the theme music and several scores for the Quinn Martin television series The F.B.I.
In 1959, Kaper composed most of the music for MGM's production on Green Mansions with Audrey Hepburn and Anthony Perkins, after MGM had asked Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos to write the score. Only some of Villa-Lobos' music was actually used in the film; much of the rest was later arranged as the secular cantata Forest of the Amazons, which Villa-Lobos recorded in stereophonic sound for United Artists Records with the Symphony of the Air. One of Kaper's last projects under his MGM contract was also his most ambitious: scoring the massive 1962 remake of Mutiny on the Bounty, involving epic sea themes and native Polynesian music. Kaper's interest in melding exotic indigenous music with traditional cues continued in Lord Jim, which introduced the unique sound of gamelan orchestras to Western audiences for the first time in the mid-1960s.
In Los Angeles during the 1940s, Kaper was part of a significant community of exiles, including Thomas and Heinrich Mann, Bertolt Brecht, Arnold Schoenberg, Lion Feuchtwanger, Max Reinhardt, Hanns Eisler, and Berthold and Salka Viertel.
(1960)
(Compositeur de musique originale)
(1947)
(Musicien)
(1953)
(Musicien)
(1950)
(Compositeur de musique originale)
(1936)
(Son)
(1965)
(Compositeur de musique originale)
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Bronisław Kaper
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Nom de naissance Bronisław Kaper
Nationalité Pologne
Naissance 5 février 1902 à Varsovie (Pologne)
Mort 26 avril 1983 (à 81 ans) à Hollywood (Etats-Unis)
Nationalité Pologne
Naissance 5 février 1902 à Varsovie (Pologne)
Mort 26 avril 1983 (à 81 ans) à Hollywood (Etats-Unis)
Bronisław Kaper (February 5, 1902 – April 26, 1983) was a Polish film composer who scored films and musical theater in Germany, France, and the USA. The American immigration authorities misspelled his name as Bronislau Kaper. He was also variously credited as Bronislaw Kaper, Bronislaw Kapper, Benjamin Kapper, and Edward Kane.
Kaper is now perhaps best remembered as the composer of the jazz standards "On Green Dolphin Street" (lyrics by Ned Washington) and "Invitation" (lyrics by Paul Francis Webster) which were originally the respective title tracks for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's films Green Dolphin Street (1947) and Invitation (1952). He also scored the MGM film musical Lili (1953) and the TV series The F.B.I. (1965–1974).
Biographie
Bronisław Kaper began playing the piano at the age of six, and soon demonstrated considerable talent on this instrument. He studied composition and piano at the Warsaw Conservatory, and law at Warsaw University, in deference to his father's wishes. Soon after completing his studies, Kaper went to Berlin - then a city with many theaters and cabarets, where many artists from Eastern Europe - mainly Russia, Poland and Hungary were trying their luck.In Berlin, in the late 1920s, Kaper met another young composer, the Austrian Walter Jurmann. The two decided to work as a team, first in Berlin and then, after the Nazis took power in Germany, in Paris. The emergence of sound film created a major market for their talents. In Paris, they composed music for films directed by persons who had fled Hitler.
In 1935, upon being offered a seven-year contract with MGM by Louis B. Mayer, Kaper and Jurmann emigrated to the United States, where they continued their work. One of their first American films was the Marx Brothers comedy A Night at the Opera (1935), for which they scored the song "Cosi-Cosa". Kaper went on to compose the music for nearly 150 Hollywood movies, and won an Oscar for the musical Lili. His score for the Orson Welles film The Stranger (1946) is an interesting example of how much the soundtrack can contribute to a classic Hollywood film. With Walter Jurmann he co-wrote the theme song for the 1936 film San Francisco, and the theme music and several scores for the Quinn Martin television series The F.B.I.
In 1959, Kaper composed most of the music for MGM's production on Green Mansions with Audrey Hepburn and Anthony Perkins, after MGM had asked Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos to write the score. Only some of Villa-Lobos' music was actually used in the film; much of the rest was later arranged as the secular cantata Forest of the Amazons, which Villa-Lobos recorded in stereophonic sound for United Artists Records with the Symphony of the Air. One of Kaper's last projects under his MGM contract was also his most ambitious: scoring the massive 1962 remake of Mutiny on the Bounty, involving epic sea themes and native Polynesian music. Kaper's interest in melding exotic indigenous music with traditional cues continued in Lord Jim, which introduced the unique sound of gamelan orchestras to Western audiences for the first time in the mid-1960s.
In Los Angeles during the 1940s, Kaper was part of a significant community of exiles, including Thomas and Heinrich Mann, Bertolt Brecht, Arnold Schoenberg, Lion Feuchtwanger, Max Reinhardt, Hanns Eisler, and Berthold and Salka Viertel.
Ses meilleurs films
(1960)(Compositeur de musique originale)
(1947)(Musicien)
(1953)(Musicien)
(1950)(Compositeur de musique originale)
(1936)(Son)
(1965)(Compositeur de musique originale)
Le plus souvent avec
Filmographie de Bronisław Kaper (114 films)
| Année | Nom | Métier | Rôle |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | Notre agent à Salzbourg | Compositeur de musique originale | |
| 1968 | La Puce à l'oreille | Compositeur de musique originale | |
| 1967 | La Symphonie des héros | Compositeur de musique originale | |
| 1967 | Tobrouk, commando pour l'enfer | Compositeur de musique originale | |
| 1967 | La Route de l'ouest | Compositeur de musique originale | |
| 1965 | Lord Jim | Compositeur de musique originale | |
| 1964 | Kisses for My President | Compositeur de musique originale | |
| 1962 | Doux oiseau de jeunesse | Son | |
| 1962 | Les révoltés du Bounty | Compositeur de musique originale | |
| 1961 | Anna et les Maoris | Compositeur de musique originale | |
| 1961 | Le troisième homme était une femme | Compositeur de musique originale | |
| 1960 | L'Ange Pourpre | Musicien | |
| 1960 | La Vénus au vison | Compositeur de musique originale | |
| 1960 | Celui par qui le scandale arrive | Compositeur de musique originale | |
| 1959 | Le Bouc émissaire | Musicien | |
| 1959 | Vertes Demeures | Editeur de musique | |
| 1958 | Ma tante | Compositeur de musique originale | |
| 1958 | Les Frères Karamazov | Musicien | |
| 1957 | Les Espions s'amusent | Musicien | |
| 1957 | Miss Ba | Son | |
| 1957 | Don't Go Near the Water | Compositeur de musique originale | |
| 1956 | Le cygne | Compositeur de musique originale | |
| 1956 | Les Grands de ce monde | Son | |
| 1956 | Marqué par la haine | Compositeur de musique originale | |
| 1956 | Forever, Darling | Compositeur de musique originale | |
| 1955 | Les Aventures de Quentin Durward | Compositeur de musique originale | |
| 1955 | Le fils prodigue | Compositeur de musique originale | |
| 1955 | La Pantoufle de verre | Chargé de chansons | |
| 1954 | Les Fils de Mademoiselle | Musicien | |
| 1954 | Voyage au-delà des vivants | Son | |
| 1954 | Des monstres attaquent la ville | Compositeur de musique originale | |
| 1953 | The Actress | Son | |
| 1953 | L'Appât | Compositeur de musique originale | |
| 1953 | Lili | Musicien | |
| 1953 | Vaquero | Son | |
| 1953 | Saadia | Musicien | |
| 1952 | Invitation | Compositeur de musique originale | |
| 1952 | Au pays de la peur | Musicien | |
| 1952 | Shadow in the Sky | Compositeur de musique originale | |
| 1951 | Laisse-moi t'aimer | Musicien | |
| 1951 | La Charge victorieuse | Compositeur de musique originale | |
| 1951 | J'épouse mon mari | Compositeur de musique originale | |
| 1951 | Three Guys Named Mike | Compositeur de musique originale | |
| 1950 | La Clé sous la porte | Compositeur de musique originale | |
| 1950 | Kim | Compositeur de musique originale | |
| 1950 | Ma vie à moi | Compositeur de musique originale | |
| 1950 | Pour plaire à sa belle | Compositeur de musique originale | |
| 1950 | The Skipper Surprised His Wife | Musicien | |
| 1950 | Chasse aux espions | Musicien | |
| 1949 | La Dynastie des Forsyte | Compositeur de musique originale | |
| 1949 | Le jardin secret | Compositeur de musique originale | |
| 1949 | Passion fatale | Compositeur de musique originale | |
| 1949 | Malaya | Compositeur de musique originale | |
| 1949 | Acte de violence | Compositeur de musique originale | |
| 1948 | Le retour | Compositeur de musique originale | |
| 1948 | The Secret Land | Musicien | |
| 1947 | Le Pays du dauphin vert | Musicien | |
| 1947 | Cynthia | Compositeur de musique originale | |
| 1947 | High Wall | Musicien | |
| 1946 | Le Criminel | Compositeur de musique originale | |
| 1946 | Le Courage de Lassie | Compositeur de musique originale | |
| 1946 | Cœur secret | Compositeur de musique originale | |
| 1946 | Three Wise Fools | Compositeur de musique originale | |
| 1945 | La Grande Dame et le Mauvais Garçon | Chargé de chansons | |
| 1945 | Sans amour | Compositeur de musique originale | |
| 1945 | Bewitched | Compositeur de musique originale | |
| 1945 | Our Vines Have Tender Grapes | Compositeur de musique originale | |
| 1944 | Hantise | Compositeur de musique originale | |
| 1944 | Madame Parkington | Musicien | |
| 1944 | Le mariage... une affaire privée | Son | |
| 1944 | Le Corps céleste | Compositeur de musique originale | |
| 1944 | Maisie Goes to Reno | Compositeur de musique originale | |
| 1943 | L'Amour travesti | Compositeur de musique originale | |
| 1943 | Un espion a disparu | Compositeur de musique originale | |
| 1943 | Bataan | Compositeur de musique originale | |
| 1943 | La Croix de Lorraine | Son | |
| 1943 | La Flamme sacrée | Compositeur de musique originale | |
| 1942 | Danse autour de la vie | Son | |
| 1942 | The Affairs of Martha | Musicien | |
| 1942 | Carrefours | Compositeur de musique originale | |
| 1942 | Johnny, roi des gangsters | Compositeur de musique originale | |
| 1942 | Nazi Agent | Musicien | |
| 1942 | Je te retrouverai | Compositeur de musique originale | |
| 1942 | Tondelayo | Compositeur de musique originale | |
| 1942 | A Yank at Eton | Son | |
| 1942 | Fingers at the Window | Compositeur de musique originale | |
| 1941 | La Femme aux deux visages | Compositeur de musique originale | |
| 1941 | Il était une fois | Compositeur de musique originale | |
| 1941 | Souvenirs | Son | |
| 1941 | Barnacle Bill | Son | |
| 1941 | Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day | Compositeur de musique originale | |
| 1941 | La Proie du mort | Compositeur de musique originale | |
| 1941 | Duel de femmes | Musicien | |
| 1941 | Whistling in the Dark | Musicien | |
| 1941 | Blonde Inspiration | Compositeur de musique originale | |
| 1940 | Je profite de cette femme | Compositeur de musique originale | |
| 1940 | La Tempête qui tue | Compositeur de musique originale | |
| 1940 | Camarade X | Compositeur de musique originale | |
| 1940 | Florian | Son | |
| 1940 | We Who Are Young | Compositeur de musique originale | |
| 1940 | Dulcy | Compositeur de musique originale | |
| 1940 | The Captain Is a Lady | Compositeur de musique originale | |
| 1937 | Un Jour aux courses | Son | |
| 1936 | San Francisco | Acteur, Son | |
| 1936 | Trois jeunes filles à la page | Chargé de chansons | |
| 1936 | À vos ordres, Madame | Musicien | |
| 1935 | Les Révoltés du Bounty | Son | |
| 1935 | La Femme au masque | Musicien | |
| 1935 | Les Nuits moscovites | Son | |
| 1934 | On a volé un homme | Musicien | |
| 1933 | Abenteuer am Lido | Musicien | |
| 1933 | Ihre Majestät die Liebe | Compositeur de musique originale | |
| 1932 | Schuß im Morgengrauen | Musicien | |
| 1930 | Alraune | Compositeur de musique originale |