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Herbert Pope Stothart (September 11, 1885 – February 1, 1949) was an American songwriter, arranger, conductor, and composer. He was nominated for twelve Academy Awards and won Best Original Score for The Wizard of Oz.
The Wizard of Oz (1939) Unlike Gone with the Wind and Dark Victory, The Wizard of Oz was part of the Hollywood film-musical tradition. In Oz there are obvious, diegetic musical numbers such as “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” and “Ding Dong, the Witch Is Dead,” and also passages of non-diegetic background music. Two of the latter passages ...
Kenneth Roberts’s novel Northwest Passage chronicles the exploits of Major Robert Rogers (1731–1795), who during the French and Indian War raised and commanded an independent unit of light-infantry soldiers attached to the British Army known as “Rogers’ Rangers.”
Herbert Stothart originally did The Merry Widow Waltz, Vilia and Italian Street Song. Herbert Stothart wrote Optimistic Voices, I Wanna Be Loved by You, The Donkey Serenade, Rose-Marie and other songs.
- September 11, 1885
- February 1, 1949
Herbert Stothart (September 11, 1885 – February 1, 1949) was a songwriter, composer, arranger and conductor. During the 1920s he wrote for New York Broadway productions, as sound became added to movies he moved Hollywood. In 1940 he was awarded an Oscar for his soundtrack to The Wizard of Oz.
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Whether inspired by personal memories of Oz’s silent film incarnations or by the MGM film’s sepia-tone sequences, Stothart contributed to the nostalgic spirit of the film through an intricate sequence of musical quotations that hearkened back to the pastiche scores of the silent era.
