Gerhard Heinz

Gerhard Heinz (born 1927 in Vienna) is an Austrian composer and pianist who scored more than a hundred films from the early 1960s to the 2000s. He worked mostly on popular comedies and, from the mid-1970s, on many softcore erotic films, among them Hubert Frank's Vanessa (1977). He also wrote the music for Franz Antel's Der Bockerer series. Gerhard Heinz joined Horst Winter's orchestra in 1950, later became bandleader at the Moulin Rouge in Vienna and was then hired as recording director at Polydor's Vienna branch. He went on to open his own studio.