Leo Arnaud

Leo Arnaud was a composer and conductor who was highly active in the Hollywood film industry from the late 1930s to the mid 1960s, but who is now best remembered as the composer of Bugler's Dream--the ubiquitous brass fanfare featured on televised broadcasts of the Olympic Games. Born in Lyon, France, in 1904 (as Noël Arnaud), he studied composition with such estimable figures as Maurice Ravel and Vincent d'Indy before emigrating to the United States. He immediately began a career as a film composer, providing scores and orchestrations for a number of unmemorable films (Ever h...