Leo Shuken
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Leo Shuken (born December 8, 1906,
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– d. July 24, 1976,
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) was an American
film music A film score is original music written specifically to accompany a film. The score comprises a number of orchestral, instrumental, or choral pieces called cues, which are timed to begin and end at specific points during the film in order to ...
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,
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, and musical director, who specialized in epic or
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genres, including " The Magnificent Seven" series. Shuken composed for the
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from the end of the 1930s until shortly before his death, contributing music to over 100 films (many of which were uncredited). He was a favored and frequent orchestrator for the scores of Victor Young; among them '' My Foolish Heart'' (1949), '' Scaramouche'' (1952) and '' Around the World in 80 Days'' (1956). His first, uncredited, score was for ''
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'' in 1937. He won an
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for his work on the 1939 film ''
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'', and was nominated in 1964 for the
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for '' The Unsinkable Molly Brown''.


Further reading

* Jürgen Wölfer & Roland Löper: "''Das grosse Lexikon der Filmkomponisten. Die Magier der cineastischen Akustik - von Ennio Morricone bis Hans Zimmer''". Schwarzkopf&Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2003, .


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Shuken, Leo 1906 births 1976 deaths Musicians from Los Angeles American film score composers American male film score composers Best Original Music Score Academy Award winners 20th-century American classical musicians 20th-century American composers 20th-century American male musicians