Fred Steiner

Frederick "Fred" Steiner worked as a composer on Star Trek: The Original Series,, and Star Trek: The Next Generation. He is the composer who contributed more than any other with original scores for Star Trek: The Original Series.

Steiner was born in New York City. He received a degree in music composition from the at Oberlin College in Ohio. His professional composing career began when he composed scoring and theme music for programs such as the ', ', and This is Your FBI in the 1940s and 1950s.

Besides his work on Star Trek, Steiner also composed scoring for other television series including ', ', ', ' and .

One of his best known compositions, aside from his Star Trek scores, was the theme song for the TV series. Steiner's Park Avenue Beat was used as the title song for the popular courtroom drama for it's entire nine year run.

As a film composer, Steiner received an Oscar nomination for his work on the 1985 film, , which starred Whoopi Goldberg and featured Leon Rippy.

Fred Steiner is the son of George Steiner, who was also a composer, primarily of musical numbers in cartoon shorts of the 1930s. Fred Steiner's daughter is the folk/rock singer-songwriter, Wendy Waldman. Steiner passed away on June 23, 2011, after suffering a stroke. He was 88 years old.

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