Alfred Newman was an American composer, conductor, and music director who ranks among the most important figures in the history of Hollywood film music and the patriarch of one of its great musical dynasties. Born in New Haven, Connecticut, he was a child-prodigy pianist and worked as a Broadway conductor before moving to Hollywood at the dawn of the sound era.
As head of the music department at 20th Century-Fox from 1940 to 1960, Newman shaped the studio's musical identity and mentored a generation of film composers. Across a career of some two hundred scores he won nine Academy Awards — long the record for a music director — from more than forty nominations, for films including Alexander's Ragtime Band, The Song of Bernadette, With a Song in My Heart, Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing, The King and I, and Camelot. His lush, string-centred romanticism helped define the sound of the classical Hollywood score, and he composed the fanfare still associated with the 20th Century-Fox logo.
Newman founded a musical family whose members — including his brothers Lionel and Emil, his sons David and Thomas, and his nephew Randy Newman — became significant film composers in their own right.
20th Century Fox: 75 Years Of Great Film Music
Various Artists
United States / 2010-12-21
Varèse Sarabande 302 067 059 2
3xCD (Album) / 59 Tracks / 228:43 m:s
20th Century Fox: 75 Years Of Great Film Music
Various Artists
United States / 2010-12-07
Varèse Sarabande 302 067 059 2
Digital (Album) / 59 Tracks / 228:43 m:s
20th Century Fox: 75 Years Of Great Film Music
Various Artists
Germany / 2011-01-25
Colosseum Music Entertainment CVS 7059-3.2
3xCD (Album) / 59 Tracks / 228:43 m:s
All About Eve / Leave Her To Heaven
United States / 1999-11
Film Score Monthly FSMCD Vol. 2, No. 7
1xCD (Album)
Anastasia (Music From the Sound Track)
Alfred Newman
United States / 1981
Varèse Sarabande STV 81125
1xLP (Album) / 14 Tracks / 41:14 m:s
The Best of Everything
United States / 2001-09
Film Score Monthly FSMCD Vol. 4, No. 11
1xCD (Album) / 34 Tracks / 70:19 m:s
The Big Gamble / Treasure of the Golden Condor
United States / 2008-06-03
Intrada (Special Collection) ISC 67
1xCD (Album) / 16 Tracks / 66:01 m:s
Black Widow / Good Morning, Miss Dove
United States / 2009-07-21
Intrada (Special Collection) ISC 105
1xCD (Album) / 20 Tracks / 52:58 m:s
A Certain Smile
United States / 2011-08-16
La-La Land Records LLLCD 1178
2xCD (Album) / 39 Tracks / 98:28 m:s
David and Bathsheba
Alfred Newman
United States / 2005-08-02
Intrada (Special Collection) ISC 22
1xCD (Album) / 18 Tracks / 57:22 m:s
Destination Gobi
United States / 2011-05-03
Intrada (Special Collection) ISC 169
1xCD (Album)
The Diary of Anne Frank (Music From The Original Soundtrack)
Alfred Newman
United States / 2021-11-30
La-La Land Records LLLCD 1562
2xCD (Album) / 44 Tracks / 141:04 m:s
Elmer Bernstein's Film Music Collection
Elmer Bernstein
United States / 2006-08-15
Film Score Monthly FSM BOX 01
12xCD (Album) / 168 Tracks / 583:13 m:s
The Greatest Story Ever Told
United States / 2004-09-14
Varèse Sarabande 302 066 604 2
3xCD (Album) / 34 Tracks / 134:27 m:s
The Greatest Story Ever Told
Germany / 2004-09-14
Colosseum Schallplatten CVS 6604-3.2
3xCD (Album) / 34 Tracks / 134:27 m:s
Hell and High Water
Alfred Newman
United States / 2005-04-12
Intrada (Special Collection) ISC 19
1xCD (Album) / 25 Tracks / 72:18 m:s
The House on Telegraph Hill / Ten North Frederick
United States / 2011-07-12
Intrada ISC 176
1xCD (Album) / 26 Tracks / 72:38 m:s
Leave Her to Heaven / Take Care of My Little Girl
United States / 2013-04-15
Kritzerland
1xCD (Album)
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing / The Seven Year Itch
United States / 2012-11-05
Kritzerland
1xCD (Album)
A Man Called Peter (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Alfred Newman
United States / 2001-06
Film Score Monthly (Golden Age Classics) FSMCD Vol. 4 No. 7
1xCD (Album) / 37 Tracks / 57:05 m:s
Mant Hunt
United States / 2014-10-07
La-La Land Records LLLCD 1319
1xCD (Album)
Les Miserables
United States / 2007-07-02
Varèse Sarabande (CD Club) VCL 0707 1065
1xCD (Album) / 15 Tracks / 53:54 m:s
Pickup on South Street / Dangerous Crossing
United States / 2009-09-01
Intrada ISC 106
1xCD (Album) / 22 Tracks / 58:39 m:s