Walter Baumgartner

Walter Baumgartner was born on Nov 16, 1904 in Switzerland. Walter Baumgartner's big-screen debut came with Die Venus vom Tivoli directed by Leonard Steckel in 1953.

Composer, conductor, jazz musician (he played both piano and trombone), and arranger Walter Ernst Baumgartner was born on November 16, 1904 in Sevelen, Kanton St. Gallen, Switzerland. Walter founded the swing band the Magnolians in 1934. Baumgartner worked for a while as an arranger and was the conductor of an orchestra prior to composing the score for his first film in 1952. A furiously prolific composer in the late 1960's and throughout the 1970's, Walter frequently worked for producer/director