Fred Steiner

Fred Steiner worked as a composer on , , and . He is the composer who contributed more than any other with original scores for .
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 for other television series including , , , , and The Twilight Zone. 
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 its entire nine year run.
As a film composer, Steiner received an Oscar nomination for his work on (1985, starring Whoopi Goldberg and featuring Leon Rippy).
Fred Steiner was the son of , 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 . Steiner passed away on June 23, 2011 after suffering a stroke. He was 88 years old. 
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