Harold Faltermeyer

Person · Open Library

Works

2

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

Germany

Active from

1952-10-05

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

445,348

Total plays

3,387,003

Hans Hugo Harold Faltermeyer (born 5 October 1952) is a German musician, composer and record producer. He is known for composing "Axel F," the instrumental theme for the 1984 film Beverly Hills Cop, which became a notable synthpop track during the 1980s. Faltermeyer also composed the "Top Gun Anthem" and contributed to the score for the 1986 film Top Gun. His work on these films earned him two Grammy Awards: in 1986 for Best Album of Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Spe

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. A New Equation to Estimate Glomerular Filtration Rate

   · 2009 · cited 22,584x

2. A global reference for human genetic variation

   · 2015 · cited 17,794x

3. Overview of the<i>CCP</i>4 suite and current developments

   · 2011 · cited 11,958x

4. TopHat2: accurate alignment of transcriptomes in the presence of insertions, deletions and gene fusions

   · 2013 · cited 11,182x

5. Differential gene and transcript expression analysis of RNA-seq experiments with TopHat and Cufflinks

   · 2012 · cited 10,972x

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Harold

Gender

male

Citizenship

Germany

Place of birth

Munich

Occupation

recording artist

Languages spoken

German

Award

Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance

Genre

electronic music

Instrument

synthesizer

Record label

Deutsche Grammophon

Official website

haroldfaltermeyer.net

Image

Harold Faltermeyer.jpg

Work location

Los Angeles

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