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Heinz Kiessling

Heinz Kiessling (March 11, 1926 – December 27, 2003) was a German musician, conductor, composer, and music producer, known mainly from his work for popular films and television programs. Kiessling's

Heinz Kiessling (March 11, 1926 – December 27, 2003) was a German musician, conductor, composer, and music producer, known mainly from his work for popular films and television programs. Kiessling’s piece Temptation Sensation (originally titled Haute Couture) is the theme song for It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, the longest-running live-action sitcom in American television history. The series also uses background music during its episodes from Kiessling, including On your Bike and Blue Blood (originally titled Tandem-Holiday and Pizzicata Milanese respectively). Life and career Kiessling studied piano, composition, and conducting after World War II at the Nuremberg Conservatory in 1949, and started his career in 1949 as a pianist and played in different concerts around the world. Soon after, he started working on recording music for television. In 1950, he began composing music in the jazz, dance, and light music genres. At times, he also led his own orchestra, and also worked many years for the in Berlin. Together with the pianist Werner Tautz, he established in 1964 the label “Brilliant” through which he managed numerous national and international big bands. Kiessling worked w

Era
Post-War
Lived
1926–2003
From
Germany
Born in
Nuremberg · died Starnberg
Known as
pianist, songwriter, composer, conductor, film score composer, record producer
Instruments
piano

Contemporaries

Composers of the same nationality whose working lives overlapped — computed across all 11,984 dated composers in this library, not taken from any single article.