Leipold was born in Hunter, NY in 1888 to John G. and Lena M. Leipold. In 1916 he married Caroline Anna Ebel (1889–1982) in Poughkeepsie, New York. From 1912 to 1922 he conducted vaudeville and light opera in New York. He then spent four years as music director for the
Al G. Field Minstrels, where he directed the orchestra and chorus and contributed original music. He was likely hired by Joseph Hatfield after Al G. Field Minstrel founder Al G. Field's death. From 1927 to 1928 he was an arranger for
Remick Music. In 1928 he moved to Hollywood and worked in Paramount Studios' music department. He began as a librarian under Nat W. Finston, where he would select stock music for films and add his own compositions. He contributed music and arrangements to hundreds of films, most of it uncredited (including two
Marx Brothers films). In 1939 his contributions to the score for Stagecoach were awarded the Academy Award; this led to him scoring a number of westerns for
Harry Sherman Productions from 1939 to 1942. In 1952 he wrote another text
Mathematics of Pitch. ==Selected filmography==