What American orchestrator composed the music for Disney's 52nd Disney animated feature film.
David Metzger
David Metzger
David Metzger (born in 1960 in Corvallis, Oregon), is an American orchestrator and composer best known for his orchestrations of many Disney feature animation films of the past 20 years.
 He has helped to shape the classic Disney orchestral sound on major Disney films including "Frozen", "Moana", "Planes", "Wreck-It Ralph", "Tarzan", "Haunted Mansion", and "Brother Bear".
 He arranged 6 of the 7 songs in "Frozen" including the blockbuster "Let It Go" as well as much of the score.
 In addition to his work for Disney, he has done orchestrations for over 50 major films.
 He has also composed the musical score for Tarzan 2, Brother Bear 2, and Tarzan and Jane.
 He also has numerous video game, theme park, TV, and commercial credits.
Wreck-It Ralph
Wreck-It Ralph is a 2012 American 3D computer-animated fantasy-comedy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures.
 It is the 52nd Disney animated feature film.
 The film was directed by Rich Moore, who has directed episodes of "The Simpsons" and "Futurama", and the screenplay was written by Phil Johnston and Jennifer Lee from a story by Moore, Johnston, and Jim Reardon.
 John Lasseter served as the executive producer.
 The film features the voices of John C. Reilly, Sarah Silverman, Jack McBrayer, and Jane Lynch.
 The film tells the story of the eponymous arcade game villain who rebels against his role and dreams of becoming a hero.
 He travels between games in the arcade and ultimately must eliminate a dire threat that could affect the entire arcade and one that Ralph himself unintentionally started.
Annie Award for Music in a Feature Production
The Annie Award for Music in a Feature Production (or Annie Award for Music in an Animated Feature Production) is an Annie Award given annually to the best music in an animated feature film, theatrical or direct-to-video.
 It began in 1997 as the "Annie Award for Best Individual Achievement: Music in a Feature/Home Video Production".
 Throughout the following years, the title was renamed "Outstanding Individual Achievement for Music in an Animated Feature Production", "Outstanding Individual Achievement for Music Score in an Animated Feature Production", and "Outstanding Music in an Animated Feature Production" before changing to its current title in 2005.
 It was retitled "Best Music in an Animated Feature Production" in 2006 for three years before being reverted to "Music in an Animated Feature Production" in 2009. Peter Pan (1953 film)
Peter Pan is a 1953 American animated adventure film produced by Walt Disney and based on the play "Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up" by J. M. Barrie.
 It is the 14th Disney animated feature film and was originally released on February 5, 1953, by RKO Radio Pictures.
 "Peter Pan" is the final Disney animated feature released through RKO before Walt Disney's founding of his own distribution company, Buena Vista Distribution, later in 1953 after the film was released.
 "Peter Pan" is also the final Disney film in which all nine members of Disney's Nine Old Men worked together as directing animators.
 It is also the second Disney animated film starring Kathryn Beaumont, Heather Angel, and Bill Thompson after their roles in the animated feature "Alice in Wonderland". Lilo &amp; Stitch
Lilo & Stitch is a 2002 American animated science fiction comedy-drama film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures.
 The 42nd Disney animated feature film, "Lilo & Stitch" was written and directed by Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders, the latter also starring as Stitch, and features the voices of Daveigh Chase, Tia Carrere, David Ogden Stiers, Kevin McDonald, Ving Rhames, Jason Scott Lee, and Kevin Michael Richardson.
 It was the second of three Disney animated features produced primarily at the Florida animation studio located at Disney's Hollywood Studios (then known as Disney-MGM Studios during production) in Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida. Saludos Amigos
Saludos Amigos (Spanish for "Greetings, Friends") is a 1942 American live-action animated package film produced by Walt Disney and released by RKO Radio Pictures.
 It is the sixth Disney animated feature film and the first of the six package films produced by Walt Disney Productions in the 1940s.
 Set in Latin America, it is made up of four different segments; Donald Duck stars in two of them and Goofy stars in one.
 It also features the first appearance of José Carioca, the Brazilian cigar-smoking parrot.
 "Saludos Amigos" was popular enough that Walt Disney decided to make another film about Latin America, "The Three Caballeros", to be produced two years later.
 "Saludos Amigos" premiered in Rio de Janeiro on August 24, 1942.
 It was released in the United States on February 6, 1943.
 At 42 minutes, it is Disney's shortest animated feature to date.
 It garnered positive reviews and was theatrically reissued in 1949, when it was shown on a double bill with the first reissue of "Dumbo". The Sword in the Stone (film)
The Sword in the Stone is a 1963 American animated musical fantasy comedy film produced by Walt Disney and released by Buena Vista Distribution.
 The 18th Disney animated feature film, it was the final Disney animated film to be released before Walt Disney's death.
 The songs in the film were written and composed by the Sherman Brothers, who later wrote music for other Disney films like "Mary Poppins" (1964), "The Jungle Book" (1967), "The Aristocats" (1970), and "Bedknobs and Broomsticks" (1971). Dinosaur (film)
Dinosaur is a 2000 American CGI animated adventure film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and The Secret Lab and released by Walt Disney Pictures.
 It is the 39th Disney animated feature film and Disney's The Secret Lab computer animated feature, though it is not officially labeled as one of the animated classics in the United Kingdom, where "The Wild" (2006) is included in the canon instead. The Lion King
The Lion King is a 1994 American animated epic musical film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures.
 It is the 32nd Disney animated feature film, and the fifth animated film produced during a period known as the Disney Renaissance.
 "The Lion King" was directed by Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff, produced by Don Hahn, and has a screenplay credited to Irene Mecchi, Jonathan Roberts, and Linda Woolverton.
 Its original songs were written by composer Elton John and lyricist Tim Rice, and original scores were written by Hans Zimmer.
 The film features an ensemble voice cast that includes Matthew Broderick, James Earl Jones, Jeremy Irons, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Moira Kelly, Nathan Lane, Ernie Sabella, Rowan Atkinson, Robert Guillaume, Madge Sinclair, Whoopi Goldberg, Cheech Marin, and Jim Cummings.
 The story takes place in a kingdom of lions in Africa and was influenced by William Shakespeare's "Hamlet". The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh is a 1977 American animated film produced by Walt Disney Productions and distributed by Buena Vista Distribution.
 It is the 22nd Disney animated feature film and was first released on March 11, 1977 on a double bill with "The Littlest Horse Thieves".