Erich Wolfgang Korngold

Erich Wolfgang Korngold is a Austrian Compositeur (naturalized American in 1943), born with Brno (Austria-Hungary) the May 29th 1897 and died in Hollywood the November 29th 1957

Biography

Wire of the critic musical Julius Korngold, raises Robert Fuchs, Alexander von Zemlinsky and Hermann Grädener in Vienna, child prodigy it composes at the 12 years age a trio with piano and a pantomine Der Schneemann which is orchestrated by its professor Zemlinsky and is created with the Opera of the court of Vienna (1910). Its Sinfonietta is played by Felix Weingartner and the Philharmonic orchestra of Vienna in 1913.

The triumph gained in 1920 with Hamburg where he had become leader, by his opera Die tote Stadt , work included in many opera houses of the whole world, marks the top of its career. In 1929, it approaches a profitable collaboration with the famous director max Reinhardt.

In 1934, it goes to Hollywood to arrange the music of Mendelssohn for film of Reinhardt Dream the one night of summer , then returns in an intermittent way to Europe where it teaches with the Academy of music of Vienna (1930-34), before settling in Hollywood where it composes of the film music for the firm Warner Brothers . It directs operettas to New York in 1942 and 1944, adopts American nationality in 1943, and shares its time after 1945 between Europe and the United States.

Re-elected

Often compared with Mozart itself, he is regarded as one of the child prodigies the most endowed with the history of the music. Then 13 years old, the public could discover its work at the time of the production of its ballet in two acts Der Schneemann with the Opéra of Vienna. It is especially known for its opera the Dead city (1921) adapted novel symbolic system Bruges-the-Dead of Rodenbach, its Concerto for Violon and its partitions of film music with Errol Flynn: Adventures of Robin of Wood , private life of Elisabeth of England or the Eagle of the seas .

The music of Korngold represents the last breath of the romantic spirit Viennese, it is appropriate marvelously for the melody, rhythmic style and harmonic of the modernity of the 20th incipient century. But after the first enthusiastic dashes, its star disappeared and its works left the repertory; paradoxically, its cinematographic partitions, in the form of continuations of orchestras, caused an renewed interest a long time after its death, particularly in disc and in an American musical youth deprived of prejudices, which found in the music of Korngold, the fabric of its own dreams.

Catalog of films

As type-setter

As actor

  • 1955 : Magic Fire : Hans Richter

External bonds

  • Site devoted to the type-setter

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