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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 international stature to write Hollywood scores.[1][2]
When he was 11, his ballet Der Schneemann (The Snowman) became a sensation in Vienna; his Second Piano Sonata, which he wrote at
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Erich Wolfgang Korngold is often associated with the creation of the symphonic film score. Indeed, many of his admirers today became familiar with his music through his film 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 gifted 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.
Already having played the piano from a very early age, the young prodigy composed his first original works in 1905 at the age of eight. Demonstrating a phenomenal musical precocity towards music, Korngold was taken by his father in 1906 to meet and play for Gustav Mahler. Proclaiming the child a genius, Mahler encouraged the elder Korngold to engage the