Erich Wolfgang Korngold - Jessica Duchen
Erich Wolfgang Korngold - Jessica Duchen This is the story of Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957), who bridged the worlds of serious music, operetta and film scores. Pressures of adult life steered…
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Erich Wolfgang Korngold - Jessica Duchen
This is the story of Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957), who bridged the worlds of serious music, operetta and film scores. Pressures of adult life steered him into arranging the operettas of Johann Strauss, his contemporaries and then Hollywood. The son of Vienna's most powerful turn-of-the-century music critic, he achieved legendary status as a child-prodigy composer with the operas Violanta and Die Tote Stadt.
He ignored the changing tides of musical fashion, and continued to write in his own romantic idiom, creating scores which establish him - within the film-music genres - as one of this century's most influential composers. Korngold became a highly regarded composer of incidental music for films such as Sea Hawk and The Adventures of Robin Hood. This study offers a reappraisal of his life and