Harry Manfredini

{{short description|American film composer and jazz soloist (born 1943)}}

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| birth_place = Chicago, Illinois

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Harry Manfredini (born August 25, 1943, in Chicago, Illinois) is an American composer and jazz soloist, who has scored more than one hundred films, including most of the Friday the 13th series. He has had years of classical training, as well as twenty years in the popular music scene. In conversation with Russian journalist and composer Tony Vilgotsky, Harry Manfredini said that his musical tastes and style were influenced by such composers as Giacomo Puccini, Igor Stravinsky, Maurice Ravel and others.{{cite web|url=https://old.mirf.ru/Articles/art5456.htm|title=Maestro of the 13th note|first=Tony|last=Vilgotsky|date=November 2012|publisher=Mir Fantastiki|access-date=2017-06-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170805003137/http://old.mirf.ru/Articles/art5456.htm|archive-date=2017-08-05|url-status=dead}}