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Apr 19, 2022 · An excellent documentary on the life and times - and artistry - of Erich Wolfgang Korngold, whose brilliant musical contributions to the Golden Age of Hollyw...
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Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897–1957) was the last compositional prodigy to emerge from the Austro-German tradition of Mozart and Mendelssohn. He was lauded in his youth by everyone from Mahler to Puccini and his auspicious career in the early 1900s spanned chamber music, opera, and musical theater.
Few composers have had such a meteoric rise as Erich Wolfgang Korngold. He was born in Brünn (now Brno in the Czech Republic) in 1897, the son of influential Viennese music critic Julius Korngold. Aged nine, his piano playing attracted the attention of Mahler, and he won national acclaim with an operatic double bill when he was barely 20.
The Premiere of Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s String Quartet #3 in D Major, Op. 34; The American Premiere of Korngold’s Symphony in F-Sharp; Die Merker 10; North American Centennial of Die tote Stadt; Stokowski and Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s Music; Three Violinists: A Look at Korngold’s Violin Concerto
Erich Wolfgang Korngold, was a highly celebrated Jewish composer and considered to be one of the founders of Hollywood film music. He is best known for his Academy Award winning compositions for the great film scores of Captain Blood and The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), starring Errol Flynn.
Erich Wolfgang Korngold blev født d. 29. maj 1897. Død d. 29. nov 1957, 60 år gammel.
Erich Wolfgang Korngold was born into a Jewish home in Brünn, Moravia (today known as Brno, The Czech Republic) on 29 May 1897 as the second son of Dr. Julius Korngold and his wife Josefine. He grew up in Vienna from the age of four, when his father assumed the position of music critic at the Neue Freie Presse (New Free Press) newspaper as successor to the noted reviewer Eduard Hanslick.
