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Erich Wolfgang Korngold was born to a Jewish family in Brünn, Austria-Hungary (present-day Brno, Czech Republic).Erich was the second son of eminent music critic (Leopold) Julius Korngold (1860–1945); his older brother, Hans Robert Korngold [] (1892–1965), also became a musician.
Korngold later reworked this music into an orchestral suite Op. 11. [3] Die tote Stadt, Op. 12, opera in three acts (1920) Der Vampir oder Die Gejagten (The Vampire, or the Hunted) (1923), incidental music for a Hans Müller-Einigen drama. [2] [4] Das Wunder der Heliane, Op. 20, opera in three acts (1927), libretto by Hans Müller-Einigen. [2]
Operas by Erich Wolfgang Korngold (7 P) Pages in category "Compositions by Erich Wolfgang Korngold" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
Although Korngold was credited with introducing the sophisticated musical language of his classical training to the soundscapes of Hollywood films, a kind of reverse inspiration also occurred. Like many of Korngold's "serious" works in traditional genres, the violin concerto borrows thematic material from his movie scores in each of its three ...
Die tote Stadt (German for The Dead City), Op. 12, is an opera in three acts by Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897–1957) set to a libretto by Paul Schott, a collective pseudonym for the composer and his father, Julius Korngold. It is based on the 1892 novel Bruges-la-Morte by Georges Rodenbach.
The Symphony in F-sharp, Op. 40, is the only symphony by 20th-century Austrian composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold, although as a teenager in 1912 he had written a Sinfonietta, his Op. 5. The symphony was completed in 1952 and dedicated to the memory of American president Franklin D. Roosevelt, who had died seven years earlier.
Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897–1957) – Anthony Adverse, The Adventures of Robin Hood; Danny Kortchmar (born 1946) Mark Korven – I've Heard the Mermaids Singing, Cube, A Scattering of Seeds; Richard Kosinski; Joseph Kosma (1905–1969) Irwin Kostal (1911–1994) – The Sound of Music, Mary Poppins, Fantasia (1982 digital re-recording ...
Violanta, Op. 8, is a one-act opera by Erich Wolfgang Korngold. The libretto is by the Austrian playwright Hans Müller-Einigen. It is Korngold's second opera, written when he was seventeen years old.