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Friedrich Hollaender
real name Friedrich Holländer
Friedrich Hollaender is credited on 2,371 releases across 610 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1952–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
2,371
Credits
610
Albums
8
Decades active
403
In collections
Biography
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German composer, born 18 October 1896 in London, England, UK, died 18 January 1976 in Munich, Germany, son of Victor Hollaender; father of Katja Holländer.
After studying in Berlin, he composed music for productions by Max Reinhardt and became involved in cabaret and wrote music for the film Der Blaue Engel (The Blue Angel), directed by Josef von Sternberg, featuring Marlene Dietrich and Emil Jannings.
He left Nazi Germany and emigrated to the United States of America where he wrote the music for over a hundred films, including Destry Rides Again, A Foreign Affair, and Sabrina. Many of his songs were made famous by Marlene Dietrich. He can be seen as the piano accompanist in A Foreign Affair. He received four Academy Award nominations for composition.
Bio from Discogs
Credited work
2,371 releases · 610 albums · active 1952–2025
- Performance · 3,652
- Other credits · 462
Studios: Star-Club Hamburg · Café de Paris · Sound Ideas Studios · The Queen's Theatre
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
1973

Ballads
1963

Live! At The Star-Club In Hamburg, Germany; 1962
1977

John Coltrane With The Red Garland Trio
1958

1st Live Recordings (Volume Two)
1979

Lush Life
1984

God Bless The Child
1972

The Dionne Warwicke Story (A Decade Of Gold)
1971

Nat King Cole Golden Treasury "Unforgettable"
1966

Ella Sings Gershwin
1951

For Better, Or Worse
2016

As Time Goes By
1999

Exotic Percussion - The Exotic Sounds Of Martin Denny
1961

Latin Escapade
1957

Propaganda
2024

Dead City Radio
1990

John Coltrane
1972

Nat King Cole At The Sands
1966

"The Golden Years" Volume II
1966

'Round Midnight
1986

Early Years (2)
1981

The Best Of Marlene Dietrich
1973

Right As The Rain
1967

The Best Of Martin Denny
1961
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Marlene Dietrich
- Milva
- The Beatles
- Eartha Kitt
- Deanna Durbin
- Billie Holiday
- John Coltrane
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