Ernest Gold
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Ernest Sigmund Golder, also known professionally as Ernest Gold, was an Austrian-born American composer of film and television scores. Coming from a musical family, he began studying violin and piano at age six and started composing music at eight. He attended the Akademie für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna and moved to the United States in 1938 following the Nazi Anschluss. In New York, Gold worked as an accompanist and arranger while continuing his musical training before relocating to Hollywood in 1945 to work with Columbia Pictures. His major breakthrough came in 1959â1960 through his collaboration with Stanley Kramer, including the score for On the Beach (1959) and especially Exodus (1960), which earned him both an Academy Award and a Grammy Award. He also worked on films such as Itâs a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963). Beyond film, Gold composed for television and wrote the Broadway musical Iâm Solomon (1968). Ernest Gold died on March 17, 1999, in Santa Monica, California.
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- Theme of Exodus
- Exodus - Overture by Ernest Gold
