Jens Bodewalt Lampe (November 8, 1869 – May 26, 1929) was a Danish-born American composer, arranger, performer and band-leader of ragtime and syncopated dance music.
In 1873, his family moved to St. Paul, Minnesota, where his father took over leadership of the Great Western Band.
Lampe was a child prodigy on the violin and became the first chair violinist for the Minneapolis Symphony at age 16.
At this time, he began composing and publishing his own music and led a dance orchestra.
He also collected,[2] and may possibly have composed, Mysterioso Pizzicato, the piece of photoplay music whose main motif became a standard cue for stealth and villainy and has seen "hundreds of tongue-in-cheek uses" in features and cartoons.