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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 championed traditional styles of music, a cause Julius promoted throughout his lifetime. In 1904, Julius h
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Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Austrian-born American composer and conductor (1897–1957)
"Korngold" redirects here. For others of the same name, see Korngold (surname).
Erich Wolfgang Korngold | |
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Korngold (undated, c. 1912) | |
| Born | (1897-05-29)May 29, 1897 Brno, Moravia, Austria-Hungary |
| Died | November 29, 1957(1957-11-29) (aged 60) Los Angeles, California |
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| Years active | 1909–1957 |
| Known for | Operas, film scores, symphonic and chamber music |
| Spouse | Luise von Sonnenthal (m. 1924) |
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 composer of classical music, along with music for Hollywood films, and the first composer of interna
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Erich Wolfgang Korngold
“He is the only example of a composing prodigy that I have found who had a fully formed musical personality from the word ‘go’, from the beginning. In his very first works, for example, the Don Quixote suite, the very opening movement, it couldn’t be by anybody else. And he is eleven, ten years old in this piece,” said Brendan G. Carroll, the author of a Korngold biography. Erich Wolfgang Korngold was born on 29 May 1897 in Brünn/Brno, Austria-Hungary (present-day Czech Republic). His grandfather Simon Korngold (1832–1897) had arrived from the province of Galizien (Galicia, today Poland) and established a liquor factory in the city. His first son, Julius (1860–1945), from his first marriage, to Rosa Lamm (1837–1879), studied law and music in Vienna (his conservatory teachers included the composer Anton Bruckner). He would become a major European music critic. Erich Wolfgang was Julius Korngold’s second son. Laying his hopes on fulfilling his own artistic ambitions, in 1909 the father privately published three early pieces of Erich’s: the ballet/pantomime
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