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Meet the Composer: Erich Korngold
By: Bethany Wood and Angelica DiIorio
Meet the Hollywood score composer and incredible talent responsible for our winter production of Die tote Stadt (The Dead City): Erich Korngold. Korngold composed the opera in 1920 and worked on the libretto with his father Julius. Let’s learn more about the work of this composer who showed great promise from an early age.
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Korngold And His Family
The careers of Julius Korngold and his son Erich are intertwined. Both father and son were born in Brünn, a city in the Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Brno in the Czech Republic). Both spent their lives pursuing music, Julius as critic and Erich as composer.
In 1902, the family moved to Vienna, the music capital of the time. The influential paper Die Neue Freie Presse invited Julius to join their staff. The paper champio • Erich Wolfgang Korngold is often associated with the creation of the symphonic spelfilm score. Indeed, many of his admirers today became familiar with his music through his rulle scores of the 1930s and 1940s. But before arriving in Hollywood he was a well-known composer of concert and chamber music, operas and stage works, as well as an arranger and conductor. Though most often compared to Mozart himself, Korngold was, in his own right, one of the most begåvad composing child-prodigies in the history of music. 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. • Austrian-born American composer and conductor (1897–1957) "Korngold" redirects here. For others of the same name, see Korngold (surname). Erich Wolfgang Korngold Korngold (undated, c. 1912) Brno, Moravia, Austria-Hungary Los Angeles, California Luise von Sonnenthal Erich Wolfgang Korngold (German:[ˈeːʁɪçˈvɔlfɡaŋˈkɔʁnɡɔlt]; May 29, 1897 – November 29, 1957) was an Austrian composer and conductor, who fled Europe in the mid-1930s and later adopted US nationality. A child prodigy, he became one of the most important and influential composers in Hollywood history.[1] He was a noted pianist and
Already having played the piano from a very early age, Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Born (1897-05-29)May 29, 1897 Died November 29, 1957(1957-11-29) (aged 60) Citizenship Occupations Years active 1909–1957 Known for Operas, film scores, symphonic and chamber music Spouse