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{{quote|''Music is music whether it is for the stage, rostrum, or cinema. Form may change, the manner of writing may vary, but the composer needs to make no concessions whatever to what he conceives to be his own musical ideology.''|Erich Wolfgang Korngold}}
'''Erich Wolfgang Korngold''' (1897-1957) was born in Brünn, Moravia, in what was then part of the Austro-Hungarian empire, and is today Brno in [[
Stylistically, Korngold's music is the epitome of the "lush" Late Romantic Austrian/German school of [[Richard Wagner]], [[Gustav Mahler]], and Anton Bruckner: full of sweeping themes, a dramatic use of chromaticism, an abundance of memorable melodies, and the use of [[Leitmotif|Leitmotives]] as emotional guides through the action of a drama. In composing his film scores, Korngold was wont to approach them, he said, as "operas without words."
In 1934 at the request of famed theater director Max Reinhardt, who was already working in the United States, Korngold arrived in Hollywood to arrange [[Felix Mendelssohn]]'s incidental music for [[Warner Brothers]]' film version of [[William Shakespeare]]'s ''[[A Midsummer
Though under contract with [[Warner Bros]]., Korngold was living between two worlds, composing film scores in Hollywood, but trying to maintain his concert and opera presence in Europe. In 1938, the ''Anschluss'' of Austria with Germany under the [[Nazi Germany|National Socialists]] took the Jewish Korngolds by surprise. To save his family, Korngold moved them to the United States and chose to write film scores regularly. His first movie score as an exiled resident in the New World—for ''[[The Adventures of Robin Hood (
Beginning essentially in 1946 he attempted to return to the concert stage and the creation of absolute music. Deftly borrowing themes and motifs from his many movie scores—a key provision in his contract with [[Warner Bros]]. -- Korngold produced numerous works for the concert hall and stage, but the critical taste of the mid-20th century had turned away from Romanticism. Disappointed by his lack of success in the world of "serious music," in 1954 he traveled to Munich under agreement to work on one last film, ''Magic Fire'', a [[Biopic]] of [[Richard Wagner]]. Fearing that in less devoted hands Wagner's music would be ill represented on the movie screen, Korngold had agreed to return from retirement and oversee the arrangements of Wagner's music for the film. It would be his last motion picture score.
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== Films For Which Erich Wolfgang Korngold Composed Original Scores Include ==
* ''[[
* ''Give Us This Night'' (1936)
* ''The Green Pastures'' (1936)
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* ''The Prince and the Pauper'' (1937)
* ''Another Dawn'' (1937)
* ''[[The Adventures of Robin Hood (
* ''Juarez'' (1939)
* ''The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex'' (1939)
* ''[[
* ''The Sea Wolf'' (1941)
* ''Kings Row'' (1942)
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