Fred Steiner

Template:Realworld Frederick "Fred" Steiner (24 February 1923 – 23 June 2011; age 88) worked as a composer on Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, and Star Trek: The Next Generation. He is the composer who contributed more than any other with original scores for Star Trek: The Original Series.

Steiner was born in New York City. He received a degree in music composition from the Oberlin Conservatory at Oberlin College in Ohio. His professional composing career began when he composed scoring and theme music for programs such as the CBS Radio Workshop, Suspense, and This is Your FBI in the 1940s and 1950s.

Besides his work on Star Trek, Steiner also composed scoring for other television series including Lost in Space, Gunsmoke, Have Gun – Will Travel, Hogan's Heroes and The Twilight Zone.

One of his best known compositions, aside from his Star Trek scores, was the theme song for the Perry Mason TV series. Steiner's Park Avenue Beat was used as the title song for the popular courtroom drama for it's entire nine year run.

As a film composer, Steiner received an Oscar nomination for his work on the 1985 film, The Color Purple, which starred Whoopi Goldberg and featured Leon Rippy.

Fred Steiner is the son of George Steiner, who was also a composer, primarily of musical numbers in cartoon shorts of the 1930s. Fred Steiner's daughter is the folk/rock singer-songwriter, Wendy Waldman. Steiner passed away on June 23, 2011, after suffering a stroke. He was 88 years old.[1]

Star Trek credits

• TOS:
  • Season 1:
    • "The Corbomite Maneuver"
    • "Mudd's Women"
    • "Charlie X"
    • "Balance of Terror"
    • "What Are Little Girls Made Of?"
    • "Dagger of the Mind" (stock, uncredited)
    • "Miri" (stock, uncredited)
    • "The Galileo Seven" (stock, uncredited)
    • "Court Martial" (stock, uncredited)
    • "The Menagerie, Part I" (stock, uncredited)
    • "The Menagerie, Part II" (stock, uncredited)
    • "The Squire of Gothos" (stock, uncredited)
    • "Arena" (stock, uncredited)
    • "The Alternative Factor" (stock, uncredited)
    • "Tomorrow is Yesterday" (stock, uncredited)
    • "The Return of the Archons" (stock, uncredited)
    • "A Taste of Armageddon" (stock, uncredited)
    • "Space Seed" (stock, uncredited)
    • "This Side of Paradise" (stock, uncredited)
    • "The Devil in the Dark" (stock, uncredited)
    • "Errand of Mercy" (stock, uncredited)
    • "The City on the Edge of Forever" (stock, uncredited)
    • "Operation -- Annihilate!" (stock, uncredited)
  • Season 2:
    • "Who Mourns for Adonais?"
    • "Wolf in the Fold" (stock, uncredited)
    • "The Changeling" (stock)
    • "Mirror, Mirror"
    • "The Deadly Years" (stock)
    • "I, Mudd" (stock, uncredited)
    • "Bread and Circuses" (stock, uncredited)
    • "Journey to Babel" (stock, uncredited)
    • "The Gamesters of Triskelion" (stock, uncredited)
    • "The Immunity Syndrome" (stock)
    • "A Piece of the Action" (stock, uncredited)
    • "By Any Other Name"
    • "Patterns of Force" (stock, uncredited)
    • "The Ultimate Computer" (stock)
    • "The Omega Glory" (stock, uncredited) (also "Star Sprangled Banner" arrangement)
  • Season 3:
    • "Elaan of Troyius"
    • "Spock's Brain"
    • "The Tholian Web" (stock)
    • "For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky" (stock, uncredited)
    • "Day of the Dove" (stock)
    • "That Which Survives" (stock)
    • "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield" (stock)
    • "Whom Gods Destroy" (stock)
    • "The Mark of Gideon" (stock)
    • "The Cloud Minders" (stock)
    • "The Way to Eden" (stock)
    • "Requiem for Methuselah" (stock)
    • "The Savage Curtain" (stock)
    • "All Our Yesterdays" (stock, uncredited)
    • "Turnabout Intruder" (stock)
• TNG: "Code of Honor"

External links

• Fred Steiner at Wikipedia
• Template:IMDb-link
• Fred Steiner at StarTrekSoundtracks.com