John Leipold

American composer (1888–1970)

John Max Leipold (February 26, 1888 in Hunter, NY – March 8, 1970 in Dallas, TX) was a prolific American film and radio score composer. He is most noted for winning 1939 Academy Award for Best Original Score for the film Stagecoach, along with Richard Hageman, Frank Harling, and Leo Shuken.[1]

## Biography

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Leipold was born in Hunter, NY in 1888 to John G. and Lena M. Leipold. In 1916 he married Caroline Anna Ebel (1889–1982) in Poughkeepsie, New York.[2]

From 1912 to 1922 he conducted vaudeville and light opera in New York. He then spent four years as music director for the Al G. Field Minstrels, where he directed the orchestra and chorus and contributed original music.[3] He was likely hired by Joseph Hatfield after Al G. Field Minstrel founder Al G. Field's death.[4][5] From 1927 to 1928 he was an arranger for Remick Music.[4] He wrote music for circus bandleader Merle Evans.[6]

In 1928 he moved to Hollywood and worked in Paramount Studios' music department.[7] He began as a librarian under Nat W. Finston, where he would select stock music for films and add his own compositions. He contributed music and arrangements to hundreds of films, most of it uncredited (including two Marx Brothers films). In 1939 his contributions to the score for Stagecoach were awarded the Academy Award; this led to him scoring a number of westerns for Harry Sherman Productions from 1939 to 1942.[4]

Starting in 1942 he began to compose mostly for CBS, including for two Three Stooges films. From 1943 to 1948 he was composing and conducting for CBS; his output dwindled after this. He died in Dallas, TX in 1970.[4]

He wrote two educational texts, The John Leipold Lessons in Counterpoint, and The John Leipold Lessons in Harmony, and advertised them in musical trades.[8][9] In 1952 he wrote another text Mathematics of Pitch.[10]

## Selected filmography

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* Innocents of Paris (1929)
* Behind the Make-Up (1930)
* Playboy of Paris (1930)
* Monkey Business (1931)
* Horse Feathers (1932)
* It’s a Gift (1934)
* This Reckless Age (1932)
* One Hour With You (1932)
* Make Me a Star (1932)
* Hot Saturday (1932)
* El Príncipe gondolero (1933)
* The Old Fashioned Way (1934)
* Forgotten Faces (1936)
* A Son Comes Home (1936)
* Bulldog Drummond's Revenge (1937)
* Girl Overboard (1937)
* Bulldog Drummond's Peril (1938)
* Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938)
* Touchdown, Army (1938)
* Stagecoach (1939)
* The Quarterback (1940)
* Doomed Caravan (1941)
* Shut My Big Mouth (1942)
* Two Yanks in Trinidad (1942)
* Daring Young Man (1942)
* The Desperadoes (1943)
* Doughboys in Ireland (1943)
* Nine Girls (1944)
* Incendiary Blonde (1945)

## References

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1. ^ "Browser Unsupported - Academy Awards Search | Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences". awardsdatabase.oscars.org. Retrieved 2024-01-30.
2. ^ Church, Poughkeepsie (N Y. ) Christ (1916). The Records of Christ Church, Poughkeepsie, New York: Parish register, 1766-1916. F. B. Howard. p. 216.
3. ^ Piddington, George (May 30, 1925). "Minstrelsy" (PDF). The Billboard. XXXVII (22): 39.
4. ^ a b c d Sherk, Warren M. (2011). "Leipold, John". Grove Music Online. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.a2093361. Retrieved 2024-01-30.
5. ^ "Minstrelsy (Communications to our Cincinnati Offices)". The Billboard. 36 (33): 66. August 16, 1924.
6. ^ "Music Collection". Robert L. Parkinson Library and Research Center Finding Aids. Retrieved 2024-01-30.
7. ^ Kalinak, Kathryn (2007-09-17). How the West Was Sung: Music in the Westerns of John Ford. University of California Press. p. 56\. ISBN 978-0-520-25234-9.
8. ^ Office, Library of Congress Copyright (1949). Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series. p. 115.
9. ^ "Self Education in Counterpoint and Harmony" (PDF). International Musician. XLVII (12): 30. June 1949.
10. ^ Office, Library of Congress Copyright (1952). Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series. p. 125.

## External links

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* John Leipold at IMDb

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Academy Award for Best Original Score

1930s|

* Louis Silvers (1934)
* Max Steiner (1935)
* Leo F. Forbstein (1936)
* Charles Previn (1937)
* Erich Wolfgang Korngold / Alfred Newman (1938)
* Herbert Stothart / Richard Hageman, W. Franke Harling, John Leipold and Leo Shuken (1939)

1940s|

* Leigh Harline, Paul J. Smith and Ned Washington / Alfred Newman (1940)
* Bernard Herrmann / Frank Churchill and Oliver Wallace (1941)
* Max Steiner / Ray Heindorf and Heinz Roemheld (1942)
* Alfred Newman / Ray Heindorf (1943)
* Max Steiner / Morris Stoloff and Carmen Dragon (1944)
* Miklos Rozsa / Georgie Stoll (1945)
* Hugo Friedhofer / Morris Stoloff (1946)
* Miklos Rozsa / Alfred Newman (1947)
* Brian Easdale / Johnny Green and Roger Edens (1948)
* Aaron Copland / Roger Edens and Lennie Hayton (1949)

1950s|

* Franz Waxman / Adolph Deutsch and Roger Edens (1950)
* Franz Waxman / Johnny Green and Saul Chaplin (1951)
* Dimitri Tiomkin / Alfred Newman (1952)
* Bronislau Kaper / Alfred Newman (1953)
* Dimitri Tiomkin / Adolph Deutsch and Saul Chaplin (1954)
* Alfred Newman / Robert Russell Bennett, Jay Blackton and Adolph Deutsch (1955)
* Victor Young / Alfred Newman and Ken Darby (1956)
* Malcolm Arnold (1957)
* Dimitri Tiomkin / Andre Previn (1958)
* Miklos Rozsa / Andre Previn and Ken Darby (1959)

1960s|

* Ernest Gold / Morris Stoloff and Harry Sukman (1960)
* Henry Mancini / Saul Chaplin, Johnny Green, Sid Ramin and Irwin Kostal (1961)
* Maurice Jarre / Ray Heindorf (1962)
* John Addison / Andre Previn (1963)
* Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman / Andre Previn (1964)
* Maurice Jarre / Irwin Kostal (1965)
* John Barry / Ken Thorne (1966)
* Elmer Bernstein / Alfred Newman and Ken Darby (1967)
* John Barry / Johnny Green (1968)
* Burt Bacharach / Lennie Hayton and Lionel Newman (1969)

1970s|

* Francis Lai / The Beatles (John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr) (1970)
* Michel Legrand / John Williams (1971)
* Charlie Chaplin, Raymond Rasch and Larry Russell / Ralph Burns (1972)
* Marvin Hamlisch / Marvin Hamlisch (1973)
* Nino Rota and Carmine Coppola / Nelson Riddle (1974)
* John Williams / Leonard Rosenman (1975)
* Jerry Goldsmith / Leonard Rosenman (1976)
* John Williams / Jonathan Tunick (1977)
* Giorgio Moroder / Joe Renzetti (1978)
* Georges Delerue / Ralph Burns (1979)

1980s|

* Michael Gore (1980)
* Vangelis (1981)
* John Williams / Henry Mancini and Leslie Bricusse (1982)
* Bill Conti / Michel Legrand, Alan and Marilyn Bergman (1983)
* Maurice Jarre / Prince (1984)
* John Barry (1985)
* Herbie Hancock (1986)
* Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Byrne and Cong Su (1987)
* Dave Grusin (1988)
* Alan Menken (1989)

1990s|

* John Barry (1990)
* Alan Menken (1991)
* Alan Menken (1992)
* John Williams (1993)
* Hans Zimmer (1994)
* Luis Bacalov / Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz (1995)
* Gabriel Yared / Rachel Portman (1996)
* James Horner / Anne Dudley (1997)
* Nicola Piovani / Stephen Warbeck (1998)
* John Corigliano (1999)

2000s|

* Tan Dun (2000)
* Howard Shore (2001)
* Elliot Goldenthal (2002)
* Howard Shore (2003)
* Jan A. P. Kaczmarek (2004)
* Gustavo Santaolalla (2005)
* Gustavo Santaolalla (2006)
* Dario Marianelli (2007)
* A. R. Rahman (2008)
* Michael Giacchino (2009)

2010s|

* Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross (2010)
* Ludovic Bource (2011)
* Mychael Danna (2012)
* Steven Price (2013)
* Alexandre Desplat (2014)
* Ennio Morricone (2015)
* Justin Hurwitz (2016)
* Alexandre Desplat (2017)
* Ludwig Göransson (2018)
* Hildur Guðnadóttir (2019)

2020s|

* Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross and Jon Batiste (2020)
* Hans Zimmer (2021)
* Volker Bertelmann (2022)
* Ludwig Göransson (2023)
* Daniel Blumberg (2024)

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