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08-28-2014, 03:49 PM
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Hans J. Salter (1896-1996) was never as well known as Max Steiner, Alfred Newman, Bernard Herrmann,
or Miklos Rozsa, but he was a composer or orchestrator on more than 150 movies in a 30-year career. Viennese
born and a graduate of that city's Academy of Music, he was music director of Vienna's Volksoper and later with
the Berlin State Opera, before joining Germany's UFA studios in 1929. He left Germany after Hitler came to power,
and in 1937 he arrived in Hollywood, where he made his career at Universal Pictures. One reason that Salter
never achieved much recognition was that he arrived at Universal just when the studio's fortunes were on the
wane, following its near bankruptcy. It was also common practice at Universal for music already in its library to
be re-used and "tracked" into other composers' work; Salter himself reused parts of Skinner's Son of Frankenstein
score in his Frankenstein Meets The Wolfman (1943), and those same parts turned up in various Sherlock
Holmes films. Salter retired in the mid-1960's, and spent the last 30 years of his life in obscurity, although in
his final years he did assist in the making of new recordings of some of his 1940's horror movie scores.
Back in the 1970s, when film music first began to boom as an area of recording activity, one would have been
hard put to find a mention of the name Frank Skinner (1897-1968) much less any examples of his movie
scores on record. Skinner, although a very important figure in the field of film music, had the misfortune to
have done his work at Universal, one of the two "small" majors (along with Columbia Pictures, mainly on genre
films that were less than the most prestigious of their era. And, like a lot of Universal composers of the period,
much of his work was the subject of mixing and matching by the company's music department, so it was
difficult to tell who had written precisely what, even within the scope of a single motion picture. Much has
changed since. At the outset of the 21st century, orchestras have recorded and record companies have released
multiple CDs of Frank Skinner's best and best-known scores for movies such as Son of Frankenstein and
Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror, among others.
Skinner was born in Chicago and studied at the Chicago Musical College before becoming a vaudeville
pianist, and he later joined a dance band and went to work for a music publisher. He was originally brought to
Hollywood by MGM to arrange the music for The Great Ziegfeld, and he joined Universal in the late '30s
where he remained for the next three decades. Although he never aspired to the kind of artistic explorations of
Bernard Herrmann or Miklos Rozsa, Skinner used the studio's horror, science fiction, and fantasy films as a
vehicle for experimentation and often got impressive results; certainly his music for Son of Frankenstein is
among the classics of the horror genre and was good enough to be reused in numerous other features. Even
when he didn't reuse that musical material directly, many of Skinner's best scores, such as Sherlock Holmes
and the Voice of Terror, seemed to point back toward it. Watching the movie, it always seems that, at any
moment (especially the tense ones), the music is about to break into a variation on the six-note theme that
Skinner devised for Ygor's shepherd's horn (really an instrument called a blute) in Son of Frankenstein.
Skinner was often teamed with Hans J. Salter, an expatriate European composer who joined Universal at the
end of the 1930's, and the two often orchestrated each other's work, so it it is sometimes difficult to keep
straight who wrote what between the two of them.
Sorry, the uploaded FLAC files of these are gone.
mp3 versions are still in place. Stick to those.
Music Composed by
Hans J. Salter
Frank Sinner
Played by the
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by
William Stromberg
Tracks:
1. UNIVERSAL SIGNATURE (00:17)
2. MAIN TITLE (GHOST OF FRANKENSTEIN) (01:51)
3. BLOWING UP THE CASTLE (01:48)
4. FREEING THE MONSTER (02:11)
5. RENEWED LIFE (01:31)
6. FRANKENSTEIN'S CASTLE (01:00)
7. ARRIVAL AT VASARIA (04:20)
8. ERIK'S DILEMMA (00:48)
9. BARON FRANKENSTEIN'S DIARY (01:26)
10. THE MONSTER'S TRIAL (02:11)
11. ELSA'S DISCOVERY (02:45)
12. DR. KETTERING'S DEATH (04:17)
13. YGOR'S SCHEME (01:49)
14. BARON FRANKENSTEIN'S ADVICE (03:42)
15. A NEW BRAIN (01:09)
16. SEARCHING THE CASTLE (02:33)
17. MONSTER KIDNAPS CHILD/ MONSTER'S DESIRE (02:11)
18. BRAIN TRANSFER (01:30)
19. MOB PSYCHOLOGY (02:37)
20. MONSTER TALKS (02:28)
21. DEATH OF THE UNHOLY THREE (01:59)
22. END CAST (00:31)
23. SON OF DRACULA: MAIN TITLE (01:02)
24. BLACK FRIDAY: HYPNOSIS (01:49)
25. MAN MADE MONSTER: CORKY (00:56)
26. ELECTRO-BIOLOGY (03:50)
27. SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE VOICE OF TERROR: MAIN TITLE (01:01)
28. LIMEHOUSE (01:34)
29. CHRISTOPHER DOCKS (02:47)
30. VOICE OF TERROR (01:40)
31. THE SPIDER (02:03)
32. NO TIME TO LOSE (01:30)
33. MARCH OF HATE (01:18)
34. END TITLE (02:24)
Total Time: 66'48
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Music Composed by
Hans J. Salter
Frank Sinner
Played by the
Moscow Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by
William Stromberg
Tracks:
1. Universal Signature (00:17)
tracks 1-9: Son of Frankenstein
2. Main Title (02:58)
3. The Message (02:08)
4. The General (01:06)
5. Discovery/Blute Solo (04:19)
6. The Examination/Looking for a Monster (08:29)
7. Death of Ygor (02:20)
8. Monster's Rampage (04:06)
9. Finale/The Cast (00:39)
10. Universal Signature (00:15)
tracks 10-17: The Invisible Man Returns
11. Main Title (02:13)
12. Two Hours To Live (02:57)
13. Together (04:13)
14. Resting (03:27)
15. The Ghost (02:09)
16. The Return (03:36)
17. End Title (03:04)
18. Universal Signature (00:14)
tracks 18-25: The Wolf Man
19. Main Title (02:00)
20. The Telescope (01:23)
21. Wolf-Bane (04:12)
22. The Kill (01:04)
23. Bela's Funeral (06:56)
24. Desperation (02:58)
25. Sir John's Discovery (08:31)
Total Time: 75'34
Download Link (mp3) - https://mega.co.nz/#!74RXgQKR!HAWPACo3iPQHJY0xQEifaCSRr4P8bRlDbNs-8hLfX60
Source: Marco Polo CDs (my rips!)
Formats: FLAC(RAR), DDD Stereo, mp3/320(CBR)
File Sizes: 346/156 MB + 298/173 MB
Sorry, the uploaded FLAC files of these are gone.
mp3 versions are still in place. Stick to those.
Enjoy! Don't share! Buy the originals! :)
mp3 versions are still in place. Stick to those.
Hans J. Salter (1896-1996) was never as well known as Max Steiner, Alfred Newman, Bernard Herrmann,
or Miklos Rozsa, but he was a composer or orchestrator on more than 150 movies in a 30-year career. Viennese
born and a graduate of that city's Academy of Music, he was music director of Vienna's Volksoper and later with
the Berlin State Opera, before joining Germany's UFA studios in 1929. He left Germany after Hitler came to power,
and in 1937 he arrived in Hollywood, where he made his career at Universal Pictures. One reason that Salter
never achieved much recognition was that he arrived at Universal just when the studio's fortunes were on the
wane, following its near bankruptcy. It was also common practice at Universal for music already in its library to
be re-used and "tracked" into other composers' work; Salter himself reused parts of Skinner's Son of Frankenstein
score in his Frankenstein Meets The Wolfman (1943), and those same parts turned up in various Sherlock
Holmes films. Salter retired in the mid-1960's, and spent the last 30 years of his life in obscurity, although in
his final years he did assist in the making of new recordings of some of his 1940's horror movie scores.
Back in the 1970s, when film music first began to boom as an area of recording activity, one would have been
hard put to find a mention of the name Frank Skinner (1897-1968) much less any examples of his movie
scores on record. Skinner, although a very important figure in the field of film music, had the misfortune to
have done his work at Universal, one of the two "small" majors (along with Columbia Pictures, mainly on genre
films that were less than the most prestigious of their era. And, like a lot of Universal composers of the period,
much of his work was the subject of mixing and matching by the company's music department, so it was
difficult to tell who had written precisely what, even within the scope of a single motion picture. Much has
changed since. At the outset of the 21st century, orchestras have recorded and record companies have released
multiple CDs of Frank Skinner's best and best-known scores for movies such as Son of Frankenstein and
Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror, among others.
Skinner was born in Chicago and studied at the Chicago Musical College before becoming a vaudeville
pianist, and he later joined a dance band and went to work for a music publisher. He was originally brought to
Hollywood by MGM to arrange the music for The Great Ziegfeld, and he joined Universal in the late '30s
where he remained for the next three decades. Although he never aspired to the kind of artistic explorations of
Bernard Herrmann or Miklos Rozsa, Skinner used the studio's horror, science fiction, and fantasy films as a
vehicle for experimentation and often got impressive results; certainly his music for Son of Frankenstein is
among the classics of the horror genre and was good enough to be reused in numerous other features. Even
when he didn't reuse that musical material directly, many of Skinner's best scores, such as Sherlock Holmes
and the Voice of Terror, seemed to point back toward it. Watching the movie, it always seems that, at any
moment (especially the tense ones), the music is about to break into a variation on the six-note theme that
Skinner devised for Ygor's shepherd's horn (really an instrument called a blute) in Son of Frankenstein.
Skinner was often teamed with Hans J. Salter, an expatriate European composer who joined Universal at the
end of the 1930's, and the two often orchestrated each other's work, so it it is sometimes difficult to keep
straight who wrote what between the two of them.
Sorry, the uploaded FLAC files of these are gone.
mp3 versions are still in place. Stick to those.
Music Composed by
Hans J. Salter
Frank Sinner
Played by the
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by
William Stromberg
Tracks:
1. UNIVERSAL SIGNATURE (00:17)
2. MAIN TITLE (GHOST OF FRANKENSTEIN) (01:51)
3. BLOWING UP THE CASTLE (01:48)
4. FREEING THE MONSTER (02:11)
5. RENEWED LIFE (01:31)
6. FRANKENSTEIN'S CASTLE (01:00)
7. ARRIVAL AT VASARIA (04:20)
8. ERIK'S DILEMMA (00:48)
9. BARON FRANKENSTEIN'S DIARY (01:26)
10. THE MONSTER'S TRIAL (02:11)
11. ELSA'S DISCOVERY (02:45)
12. DR. KETTERING'S DEATH (04:17)
13. YGOR'S SCHEME (01:49)
14. BARON FRANKENSTEIN'S ADVICE (03:42)
15. A NEW BRAIN (01:09)
16. SEARCHING THE CASTLE (02:33)
17. MONSTER KIDNAPS CHILD/ MONSTER'S DESIRE (02:11)
18. BRAIN TRANSFER (01:30)
19. MOB PSYCHOLOGY (02:37)
20. MONSTER TALKS (02:28)
21. DEATH OF THE UNHOLY THREE (01:59)
22. END CAST (00:31)
23. SON OF DRACULA: MAIN TITLE (01:02)
24. BLACK FRIDAY: HYPNOSIS (01:49)
25. MAN MADE MONSTER: CORKY (00:56)
26. ELECTRO-BIOLOGY (03:50)
27. SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE VOICE OF TERROR: MAIN TITLE (01:01)
28. LIMEHOUSE (01:34)
29. CHRISTOPHER DOCKS (02:47)
30. VOICE OF TERROR (01:40)
31. THE SPIDER (02:03)
32. NO TIME TO LOSE (01:30)
33. MARCH OF HATE (01:18)
34. END TITLE (02:24)
Total Time: 66'48
Download Link (mp3) - https://mega.co.nz/#!y8pTkaqT!eVNddO8fN-uay1qiKqILk0wKCL1cI_1GyCnDbEZvODI
Music Composed by
Hans J. Salter
Frank Sinner
Played by the
Moscow Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by
William Stromberg
Tracks:
1. Universal Signature (00:17)
tracks 1-9: Son of Frankenstein
2. Main Title (02:58)
3. The Message (02:08)
4. The General (01:06)
5. Discovery/Blute Solo (04:19)
6. The Examination/Looking for a Monster (08:29)
7. Death of Ygor (02:20)
8. Monster's Rampage (04:06)
9. Finale/The Cast (00:39)
10. Universal Signature (00:15)
tracks 10-17: The Invisible Man Returns
11. Main Title (02:13)
12. Two Hours To Live (02:57)
13. Together (04:13)
14. Resting (03:27)
15. The Ghost (02:09)
16. The Return (03:36)
17. End Title (03:04)
18. Universal Signature (00:14)
tracks 18-25: The Wolf Man
19. Main Title (02:00)
20. The Telescope (01:23)
21. Wolf-Bane (04:12)
22. The Kill (01:04)
23. Bela's Funeral (06:56)
24. Desperation (02:58)
25. Sir John's Discovery (08:31)
Total Time: 75'34
Download Link (mp3) - https://mega.co.nz/#!74RXgQKR!HAWPACo3iPQHJY0xQEifaCSRr4P8bRlDbNs-8hLfX60
Source: Marco Polo CDs (my rips!)
Formats: FLAC(RAR), DDD Stereo, mp3/320(CBR)
File Sizes: 346/156 MB + 298/173 MB
Sorry, the uploaded FLAC files of these are gone.
mp3 versions are still in place. Stick to those.
Enjoy! Don't share! Buy the originals! :)