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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."
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