Fred Steiner
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Fred Steiner is an American composer, conductor, orchestrator and arranger for television, radio and film, born February 24, 1923, in New York, New York. He received a degree in music composition from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music.
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[edit] Radio
As a composer for radio, Steiner's credits include the dramatic anthology series On Stage, and This is Your FBI.
[edit] Television
Steiner has written for a number of television series that enjoyed great popularity in their day or in syndication. The most auspicious are the many episodes of the original series of Star Trek to which he contributed original scores (more than any other composer). (An article he wrote for the Library of Congress, "Music for Star Trek: Scoring a Television Show in the Sixties", authoritatively outlines and defines the contributions of all the original underscore composers of this series.) He also contributed work to episodes of Perry Mason, The Bullwinkle Show (including the main theme to both of these shows), Lost in Space, The Twilight Zone, and Amazing Stories.
[edit] Feature Film Work
His feature film work includes original music (Run for the Sun, The St. Valentine's Day Massacre) and orchestration/adaptation (sometimes uncredited) for other composers (among them are Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979), and The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965).
His Academy Award nomination for "Best Music, Original Score" is for The Color Purple (1985). It was a shared nomination with Quincy Jones, Jeremy Lubbock, Rod Temperton, Caiphus Semenya, Andraé Crouch, Chris Boardman, Jorge Calandrelli, Joel Rosenbaum, Jack Hayes, Jerry Hey, and Randy Kerber.
[edit] Personal
Steiner is the father of singer/songwriter Wendy Waldman.
