David Buttolph

Biography

Date of Birth 3 August 1902, New York City, New York, USA Date of Death 1 January 1983, Poway, California, USA Birth Name James David Buttolph Jr. Prolific screen composer, arranger, and conductor, educated at Juillard and the Academie fur Musik in Vienna. He played in night clubs in Vienna and Munich from 1923 to 1926, then was an opera coach in Munich, 1926-1927. In 1927 he conducted for NBC, and then became music director for WGY in Schenectady, New York. In 1933, he departed for Hollywood and joined ASCAP in 1944.