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Bernard Hoffer (born October 14, 1934) is a Swiss-born American composer laureate and conductor. He is best known for his work on 1980s cartoons such as ThunderCats and SilverHawks. He worked on several of Rankin/Bass's television series and specials. The music he developed for The MacNeil-Lehrer Report, used on the PBS NewsHour until 2015, was nominated for an Emmy Award. He has won six Clio Awards for his work on commercials. He has also conducted several musical shows, such as the ballets A Boston Cinderella! and Ma Goose.
In the early 1980s, he was tasked with writing the music for the television series ThunderCats. "When I got the assignment, I looked at the lyrics and wrote, essentially, what was a song to those lyrics," he said. According to supervising producer Lee Dannacher, Hoffer wrote the theme tune in around three weeks.
Hoffer worked as the arranger for the U.S. Army Field Band of Washington, D.C., and later became a freelance musician.
In 2020, he composed the Violin concerto No. 2, "Decapod".
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