Erich Wolfgang Korngold

Genres:	Action & Adventure • Classical • Drama • Soundtracks
Descriptive "tags":	classical • soundtrack • 20th century classical • opera • contemporary classical • composer
Decades Active:	1990s • 2000s
Links online:	IMDb • Wikipedia • Wikipedia

Biography

29 May 1897, Brno (Brunn), Czechoslovakia, d. 29 November 1957, Hollywood, California, USA. An important composer, conductor and arranger for films, from the mid-30s into the 50s. Korngold was a child prodigy, and, in his teens, wrote short operas, such as The Ring Of Polycrates and Violant. He performed as a pianist in concerts, and was the resident conductor at the Hamburg Opera House for several years. He also re-scored vintage operetta classics, giving them a new lease of life. During the 20s, his own operatic compositions, including Die Tote Stadt (The Dead City), and The Miracle Of Heliane, played European opera houses, and his enormous popularity on that continent led him to move to the USA in 1934, where he subsequently became an American citizen in 1943. In 1935, he worked on the first of a series of films for Warner Brothers Studio, when he adapted Mendelssohn’s music for the highly regarded film A Midsummer Night’s Dream, starring Dick Powell...

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