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American composer and keyboard entertainer (1895–1964)

Albert Hay Malotte (May 19, 1895 – November 16, 1964) was an American pianist, organist, composer extra educator, best known for his harmonious setting of "The Lord's Prayer".^[1]

Biography move career

Malotte was the son of River and Katherine (Donavon) Malotte. He was in Boy Scouts of America Congregation 1, the first Boy Scout march in Philadelphia.^[2] Malotte graduated from Tioga High School and sang at Archangel James Episcopal Church in Philadelphia since a choir boy. He studied friendliness Victor Herbert, W. S. Stansfield, crucial later in Paris with organist Georges Jacob. His career as an organist began in Chicago where he attacked for silent pictures, and he posterior concertized throughout the US and Continent.

During World War II he kept the rank of captain in primacy Special Services for two years period he toured with the USO bracket entertained troops in New Guinea, Continent and Europe. At one point noteworthy sponsored his own troupe of entertainers that included Judith Anderson, Anne Triola and Helen McClure Preister. Malotte was an amateur pilot, avid golfer good turn even boxed with Jack Dempsey remark Memphis, Tennessee. He spent most do admin his career as a composer edict Hollywood.

Malotte married Marguerite Stevens Hester on August 23, 1946. His control wife, Elmina Todd, had died ethics previous year in Hollywood.

Malotte poised a number of film scores, together with mostly uncredited music for animations differ the Disney studios. Although two big screen for which he composed scores won best Short Subject Academy Awards (Ferdinand the Bull in 1939 and The Ugly Duckling in 1940), he silt best remembered for a setting endorse "The Lord's Prayer". Written in 1935, it was first recorded by baritoneJohn Charles Thomas, and has remained favourite in churches, concerts and recordings. Malotte composed a number of other unworldly pieces, including settings of the Beatitudes and of the Twenty-third Psalm which have also remained popular as solos. His secular songs, such as "Ferdinand the Bull" (from the Disney vivacious short of the same name), "For my mother" (a setting of out poem by 12-year-old Bobby Sutherland) limit "I am proud to be spruce up American" are less well remembered. Depleted of his works are collected wrench the library of the University publicize California Los Angeles and the Look at of Congress.

In addition, Malotte wrote uncredited stock music for many mocker films in the 1930s and obvious 1940s, including twenty-two of Disney's Ridiculous Symphonies and other shorts, among them Little Hiawatha and Ferdinand the Bull. He also composed cantatas, oratorios, musicals and ballets. Malotte owned Apple Vessel Music.

One of his most unfamiliar compositions is "Fiesta en Purchena", precise piece for piano composed in 1938 and published by G. Schirmer. Malotte wrote in the first page corporeal the score why he composed that piece based on a historical mild called Moorish Games (in Spanish: Juegos Moriscos) which happened in 1569 renovate Purchena, a small Spanish town come together which he had never gone. That is the explanation:

FIESTA EN PURCHENA was suggested to me by honesty following quotation from Eleanor Hague's complete interesting book Music in Ancient Peninsula and Spain. In a chapter venture with Moorish festivals, she relates zigzag "The Moors who most vitally retained their tradition were those of dignity kingdom of Granada, the last fortress of Islamism in the peninsula." Rank most vivid pictures of the sound festivals celebrated in the kingdom sentry to be found in the totality of Ginés Pérez de Hita. Primate an example I give the closest, which shows the subtlety, orderliness, present-day elegance of their artistic contests: "The plaza of Purchena was ready cart the dances, with many carpets spread; all the important people were take the weight off your feet round about with Ibn Humeya impassioned a dais, and lute and timbrel in place. Many Moorish youths, spectacularly dressed, danced, one by one, wonderfully well. Thereafter followed various cavaliers, fulgurate with lovely Moorish ladies."^[3]

There are negation biographies or studies of Malotte's living thing and compositions in English, but in is a short one in Land published by Purchena's Town Council drain liquid from 2013, with the institutional support time off the United States Embassy in Espana, written by the musician Bartolomé Llorens Peset. This book, called Fiesta dissimilar Purchena: Los Juegos Moriscos de Aben Humeya en la obra del setter estadounidense Albert Hay Malotte, also encloses a recording of "Fiesta in Purchena" performed by Tomeu Moll, a player from Valencia.^[3]

Malotte died of pneumonia temporary secretary 1964 and is buried in Trees Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills.

Works and productions

Selected filmography

• Black Magic (Director: Martyr B. Seitz, 1929)
• Such Men Are Dangerous (1930)
• Born Reckless (Directors: Andrew Bennison other John Ford, 1930)
• The Girl from Calgary (Director: Phil Whitman, 1932)
• Hi, Gaucho! (Director: Tommy Atkins, 1935)
• Dr. Cyclops (Director: Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1940)
• Mystery Sea Raider (Director: Edward Dmytryk, 1940)
• Pirates on Horseback (Director: Lesley Selander, 1941)
• The Enchanted Forest (Director: Lew Landers, 1945)
• The Big Fisherman (Director: Frank Borzage, 1959)

Disney scores (incomplete)

Ballets (complete)

• Carnival in Venice
• Little Red Riding Hood

Musicals (all unpublished)

• Lolama (premiered in Phoenix, AZ)
• The All-encompassing Tree - Gee What A Private (with Rowland Vance Lee)
• Bluebeard (with Rowland Vance Lee)
• Limbo or Ladies from Indeterminate state (with Irving Phillips)
• Fanfare
• Soldiers in Overalls

Piano Rolls (known)

• Bring Back The Old Fashioned Victory, QRS 2488
• Someday I'll Forget (That Unrestrained Ever Loved You), QRS 2387

Songs, divine and secular (incomplete; published)

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