Albert Hay Malotte

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name = Albert Hay Malotte


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birth_place = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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death_place = Los Angeles, California
death_cause = pneumonia
resting_place = Forest Lawn, Hollywood Hills Cemetery
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Albert Hay Malotte (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 19, 1895-Los Angeles on November 16, 1964) was an American pianist, organist, composer and educator.

Biography and career

Malotte was the son of Charles and Katherine (Donavon) Malotte. He was in Boy Scouts of America Troop 1, the first Boy Scout troop in Philadelphia.E. Urner Goodman, "The Building of a Life", 1965.] Malotte graduated from Tioga High School and sang at Saint James Episcopal Church in Philadelphia as a choir boy. He studied with Victor Herbert, W. S. Stansfield, and later in Paris with Gordon Jacob. His career as an organist began in Chicago where he played for silent pictures and later concertized throughout the US and Europe.

During World War II he held the rank of Captain in the Special Services for two years while he toured with the USO and entertained troops in New Guinea, Australia and Europe. At one point he sponsored his own troup of entertainers that included Judith Anderson, Ann Triola and Helen McClure Preister. Malotte was an amateur pilot, avid golfer and even boxed with Jack Dempsey in Memphis, Tennessee. He spent most of his career as a composer in Hollywood.

Malotte married Marguerite Stevens Hester August 23, 1946.

Malotte composed a number of film scores, including mostly uncredited music for animations from the Disney studios. Although two movies for which he composed scores won best Short Subject Academy Awards (Ferdinand the Bull in 1939 and The Ugly Duckling in 1940), he is best remembered for a setting of the Lord's Prayer. Written in 1935, it was recorded by the baritone John Charles Thomas, and remained highly popular for use as a solo in churches and at weddings in the US for some decades. He composed a number of other religious 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 animated short of the same name), "For my mother" (a setting of a poem by 12-year-old Bobby Sutherland) and "I am proud to be an American" are less well remembered. Some of his works are collected in the library of the University of California Los Angeles and the Library of Congress.

In addition, Malotte wrote uncredited stock music for many other films in the 1930s and early 1940s, including twenty-two of the Disney Silly Symphonies and other shorts such Little Hiawatha as well as Ferdinand the Bull. He also composed cantatas, oratorios, musicals and ballets. Malotte owned Apple Valley Music.

He died of pneumonia and is buried in the Forest Lawn, Hollywood Hills Cemetery.

Works

Selected filmography

* "Black Magic" (Director: George B. Seitz, 1929)
* "Such Men are Dangerous" (1930)
* "Born Reckless" (Directors: Andrew Bennison and John Ford, 1930)
* "The Girl from Calgary" (Director: Phil Whitman, 1932)
* "Hi Gaucho" (Director: Thomas 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)

* "Lonesome Ghosts"
* "Alpine Climbers"
* "The Brave Little Tailor"
* "Broken Toys"
* "Little Hiawatha"
* "The Moth and the Flame"
* "Moving Day"
* "Three Blind Mouseketeers"
* "Magician Mickey"
* "Mickey's Elephant"
* "Orphan's Picnic"
* "The Whalers"

Ballets (complete)

*Carnival in Venice
*Little Red Riding Hood

Musicals (all unpublished)

*Lolama (premiered in Phoenix, AZ)
*The Big Tree - Gee What A Tree (with Rowland Vance Lee)
*Bluebeard (with Rowland Vance Lee)
*Limbo "or" Ladies from Limbo (with Irving Phillips)
*Fanfare
*Soldiers in Overalls

ongs, sacred and secular (incomplete; published)

*A happily married pair
*A little song of life
*A voice from outer space
*A woman must have love
*After we have kissed (from "Ladies from Limbo", 1947)
*All because of love (from "Ladies from Limbo", 1947)
*Among the living (1939)
*An Understanding Heart (1959)
*And have not charity
*At the crossroads (setting of Richard Hovey poem, 1941)
*Beatitudes, The
*Big Fisherman, The
*Blow Me Eyes (1941)
*Bobolink
*Bridal Hymn
*Bring back that old-fashioned waltz ("dedicated to my folks", 1923)
*Brotherhood (1950)
*C'est l'amour
*Chant pastoral
*Cinderella
*Contrary Mary (1936)
*David & Goliath
*Desire (1942)
*Devotedly
*Double crossed by the moon (I'm always)
*Dreamer (setting of 1928 Don Blanding poem from his "Vagabond's House", 1936)
*Faith
*Farewell (1942)
*Ferdinand the Bull
*Fiesta en purchena
*For my mother (setting of Bobby Sutherland poem, 1939)
*Forgive me (1941)
*From a foxhole
*Go, lovely rose (1936)
*Golfer's lament (theme song for the Joe Kirkwood TV show, "Let's play golf")
*Gown of glory
*Great sea, The
*Hast thou not known?
*Heartstrings (1941)
*Hebrew prayer (written for the New Temple Israel, 1951)
*Holy Bible, The
*Homing heart, The
*How shall my heart remember?
*Hymn to the D.A.R.
*I am proud to be an American
*I pledge my love to you (1951 - Dedicated to Mrs. Malotte - 8/23/46)
*If I listen to my heart
*It took me forever to find you
*It's good to know
*I've been here before
*Just an ordinary guy
*Just let me know
*Life eternal
*Lord's Prayer, The
*Lover, The (poem anonymous, 1936)
*Marguerite
*May dance
*Melancholy Moon
*Melody of my heart
*Melody of my love (1939)
*Mimi and her Fifi
*Miracle
*Mister Jim (1944)
*My friend (1939)
*My love for you
*Ninety-first Psalm, The (for solo voice and full chorus, 1941)
*O the fierce delight (1940)
*Ode to liberty
*Old age (1945)
*One, two, three (1939)
*Only with Thine Eyes (Psalm 91 - solo)
*Pledge to the Flag (1940)
*Poor old man, The
*Positive thinking (1960)
*Same old story, The
*Scout Oath, The (written for the Boy Scouts of America and Girl Scouts of the USA) [Scout Oath]
*Separation (1941)
*Sing a Song of Sixpence (1938)
*Someday I'll Forget That I Ever Loved You
*Song of the open road (1935)
*Sound of the trumpet
*Spread your wings (1943)
*Sunday morning on the Rue de la Paix
*Swashbuckler's song (1936)
*Tell the world to move over
*Time-clock, The
*Three songs to poems by Edith
*To a skylark (1940)
*Treat 'em rough, soldier boy! (1942)
*Twenty-third Psalm, The
*Unto thee, O Lord
*Upstream (setting of 1922 Carl Sandburg poem from "Slabs of the Sunburnt West", 1937)
*Voice of the Prophet (Chorus, Orchestra, & Soloists)
*We want to see everything
*Wedding day
*Wee Hughie (words by Elizabeth Shane, 1946)
*What can I ask more of life? (words by Rowland Vance Lee, 1948)
*What Would Be the Use of Living?
*When my boy comes home (1944)
*When you fall in love
*Without a man to love
*Yearning Just For You

External links

*imdb name|0540647
* [http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/m/malotte.html The Lied and Art Song Texts Page for Albert Hay Malotte]
* [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=2040&pt=Albert%20Malotte Gravesite] at Forest Lawn, Hollywood Hills Cemetery

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