Earl Karl Brent (June 21, 1914 in
St. Louis, Missouri – July 8, 1977 in
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Earl K. Brent
Discogs. Retrieved August 24, 2018. was an American songwriter, lyricist and composer.
He is best known as the lyricist of the 1946 song " Angel Eyes", written with Matt Dennis
Matthew Loveland Dennis (February 11, 1914 – June 21, 2002) was an American singer, pianist, band leader, arranger, and writer of music for popular songs.
Biography
Dennis was born in Seattle, Washington, United States. His mother was a violi ...
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He contributed songs or to the scores of many films, most notably during the 1940s. These included, as lyricist, "Love Is Where You Find It", written with Nacio Herb Brown for the film version of '' A Date with Judy'', and "Let There Be Music", written with Yip Harburg. Some of his songs were set to music of classical composers, including "Springtide" (sung by Jeanette MacDonald), set to Grieg's "The Last Spring
''Two Elegiac Melodies'', Op. 34, is a composition in two movements for string orchestra by Edvard Grieg, completed in 1880 and first published in 1881.
Background
The two movements are instrumental arrangements Grieg made of two of his ''12 Melo ...
", and "Waltz Serenade", set to Tchaikovsky's "Valse" from '' Serenade for Strings''.[
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1914 births
1977 deaths
Musicians from St. Louis
American male songwriters
American film score composers
American male film score composers
20th-century American male musicians