Korngold in America
Music, Myth, and Hollywood
by Ben Winters
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Korngold in America offers new ways of listening to the film scores and post-Hollywood concert works of Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897--1957), a Viennese-raised Austro-Hungarian composer who left Europe for Hollywood in the mid-1930s to write for Warner Bros. It reassesses Korngold's place in twentieth-century music historiography and dismantles many of the myths that have obscured a proper understanding of his work.
Drawing on previously unpublished archival materials, Korngold in America reveals Korngold's commercial and artistic relationships with studio processes and staff, highlights aspects of his compositional practice, and traces the way in which he adapted his skills as a musical dramatist and experienced opera composer to the demands of film. The book presents a more complete picture of Korngold's artistry than has hitherto been possible, showing both the important role played by his music in the Hollywood films of which it is a part and the importance in turn of Hollywood films for his compositional identity. In so doing, it challenges assumptions about the relationship between Korngold's film scores and his works for the concert hall and opera house in ways that draw attention to the significance of Hollywood for histories of twentieth-century music.
About the Author:
Ben Winters is Senior Lecturer in Music at The Open University. He is the author of several books on film music, a former co-editor of the journal Music, Sound, and the Moving Image, and co-edits the Ashgate Screen Music Series of books.
See the publisher website: Oxford University Press
See the complete filmography of Erich Wolfgang Korngold on the website: IMDB ...
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