David Raksin Free Piano Sheet Music


Name of the song | Artist | Link suggested by |
Preston Rhonda R. |
Piano sheets artist David Raksin
David Raksin (August 4, 1912 – August 9, 2004) was an American composer who was renowned for his work in film and television. With over 100 film scores and 300 television scores to his credit, he became known as the "Grandfather of Film Music."
David Raksin was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1912. His father was an orchestra conductor. Raksin played professionally in dance bands while attending Central High School of Philadelphia. He went on to study composition with Harl McDonald at the University of Pennsylvania and later with Isadore Freed in New York and Arnold Schoenberg in Los Angeles. In New York Raksin worked as an arranger for Harms/Chappell.
One of his earliest film assignments was as assistant to Charlie Chaplin in the composition of the score to Modern Times (1936). He is perhaps best remembered for the haunting theme to the 1944 movie Laura, which became the 1945 song "Laura". Johnny Mercer put lyrics to this theme, and during Raksin's lifetime this was said to be the second most-recorded song in history following Stardust by Hoagy Carmichael and Mitchell Parish. He also wrote the theme song for (and scored the pilot of) Ben Casey.
Later in life, Raksin taught at the University of Southern California and the University of California, Los Angeles. Raksin died in 2004, aged 92. At the time of his death, it was announced that Raksin had completed his autobiography, titled If I Say So Myself. The book was eventually published under the title The Bad and the Beautiful: My Life in a Golden Age of Film Music.

Top viewed piano sheets!
Bruno Mars - When I Was Your Man
Leonard Cohen - Hallelujah
Justin Bieber - Beauty and a Beat
Les Miserables - On My Own
Macklemore - Thrift Shop (feat. Wanz)
The Beatles - Let It Be
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
Henry Mancini - The Pink Panther Theme Song
Emeli Sande - Read All About It (Part III)
Labrinth - Beneath Your Beautiful
Alladin - A Whole New World
James Bond 007 - James Bond Theme Song
Alicia Keys - Girl on Fire
Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U
Rihanna - Stay
Imagine Dragons - Radioactive
Les Miserables - Castle on a Cloud
Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You
Random Article
The Basics of Playing Piano and Reading Sheet Music For beginners, musical sheets may look really foreign, with all the notes and symbols printed in it. And for those without musical background to start with, it may seem all overwhelming. The good thing is, there are lots of ways to start understanding music notes from tutorial videos to reading how to articles like this one. A first step is finding sites with quality free sheet music for piano for popular songs. Let me walk you through the basics of reading music sheets. The first step is to familiarize yourself with the staff. The staff is composed of horizontal lines where the notes and the symbols are usually written there are also the vertical lines called the bar which divides the staff into sections. The space between the bars are ...Continue reading The Basics of Playing Piano and Reading Sheet Music