Walter Scharf
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1910
- Works
- 4
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- Chemistry and the Environment
- Composed and conducted
- The history of film scoring
- Composed and conducted by Walter Scharf
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1910-08-01
- Active to
- 2003-02-24
Discography
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Walter Scharf (August 1, 1910 - February 24, 2003) was an American film composer. Born in New York, he was the son of Yiddish theatre comic Bessie Zwerling. While in his 20s, he was one of the orchestrators for George Gershwin's Broadway musical Girl Crazy, became singer Helen Morgan's accompanist, and later worked as pianist and arranger for singer Rudy Vallee. He began working in Hollywood in 1933, arranging for Al Jolson at Warner Bros., Alice Faye at 20th Century-Fox and Bing Crosby at Par
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields
· 1983 · cited 31,511x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,787x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,964x
- The diagnosis of dementia due to Alzheimer's disease: Recommendations from the National Institute on Aging‐Alzheimer's Association workgroups on diagnostic guidelines for Alzheimer's disease
· 2011 · cited 13,454x
- A logical calculus of the ideas immanent in nervous activity
· 1943 · cited 13,224x
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Walter
- Family name
- Scharf
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- New York City
- Place of death
- Brentwood
- Occupation
- film score composer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Instrument
- piano
- Record label
- Jubilee Records
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- manner of death
- natural causes
- date of birth
- 1910-08-01
- date of death
- 2003-02-24
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Original Song
- place of burial
- Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery
- related category
- Category:Films scored by Walter Scharf
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