Arthur Lange

For the comedian and radio personality, seeArtie Lange.For the English cricketer, seeArthur Lang.

Arthur Lange(April 16, 1889 – December 7, 1956) was a United StatesbandleaderandTin Pan Alleycomposer of popular music. He composed music for over 120 films, includingGrand CanaryandWoman on the Run.Lange shared anOscarnomination withHugo Friedhoferfor the filmThe Woman in the Window.He was nominated four times for Oscars, but did not win any.

Sheet music cover for the songAmerica, Here's My Boy(1917), with music by Arthur Lange

Life and career

In the 1910s, Lange was active as a songwriter, collaborating frequently with lyricistAndrew B. Sterlingand publishing with the Joe Morris Music Company. During the first half of the 1920s Lange recorded abundantly forCameo Records.His 1923 orchestra, which also played the Cinderella Ballroom onBroadwayand included trumpeters Earl Oliver and Tommy Gott, was at the end of that year bought by young well-to-do bandleaderRoger Wolfe Kahn,and it is not known whether the recordings Lange made after this point and up to 1926 were still made by these musicians (Kahn himself did not start recording under his own name forVictor Recordsuntil March 1925) or by another group.

His 1928 recordings forPathé Recordswere, however, almost certainly made by other unknown personnel. Though Lange himself played bothpianoandbanjohe seems (with the exception of a recording by his "Lange trio" in 1922) to have acted only asconductorandarrangeron his band recording dates.

Census records show that Lange shared a residence in the Hollywood Hills in 1930 withRay Heindorf,who would go on to win three Academy Awards.

Lange was a prolific arranger of dance band orchestrations during the 1920s. His "stock" orchestrations were in use by many bands of the day. Lange wrote "Arranging for the Modern Dance Orchestra" which was the definitive work of its day (published Robbins Music, 1926).

Lange also wrote theSpectrotone System of Orchestration - Book One(1943), with subtitle "A colorgraphic exposition of tone-color combinations and balanced as practiced in modern orchestration". That book was published by CO-ART. He publishedHow to write double-stops for viola, violin and Cello, a supplement to Spectrotone,with the same publisher CO-ART. That work is available from Cambria Music.His work has recently been made more famous byAlexander Creative Media.

Selected Songs

• withAndrew B. Sterling,A Mother's Prayer for Her Boy Out There,New York: Joe Morris Music Co, 1917.OCLC892504792
• withAndrew B. Sterling,America, Here's My Boy,New York: Joe Morris Music Co, 1917.OCLC9892806
• withAndrew B. Sterling,What'll We Do with Him Boys? (The Yanks Made a Monkey Out of You),New York: Joe Morris Music Co, 1918.OCLC40913604

Partial filmography

• A Woman of Experience(1931)
• The Common Law(1931)
• Devotion(1931)
• Freighters of Destiny(1931)
• My Weakness(1933)
• Orient Express(1934)
• In Old Kentucky(1935) (uncredited)
• The Magnificent Brute(1936)
• Lady of Burlesque(1943)
• The Woman in the Window(1944)
• Casanova Brown(1944)
• Along Came Jones(1945)
• The Fabulous Suzanne(1946)
• Woman on the Run(1950)
• War Paint(1953)
• The Mad Magician(1954)

Awards

Lange was nominated five times for anAcademy Award for Best Original Score.

• The Great Victor Herbert(1939)
• Lady of Burlesque(1943)
• Casanova Brown(1944)
• The Woman in the Window(1944)
• Belle of the Yukon(1945)

External links

• Arthur LangeatIMDb
• Arthur Langeat theInternet Broadway Database
• Arthur Lange recordingsat theDiscography of American Historical Recordings.