Erich Wolfgang Korngold
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Erich Wolfgang Korngold 🇦🇹

Erich Wolfgang Korngold (Known as "Korngold")
Prodigy Composer, Two-Time Academy Award Winner, Godfather of Hollywood Film Music
Born 1897-05-29 🇦🇹 Brünn (Brno), Historical Austria
Passed Away 1957-11-29 Hollywood, California, United States
Lifespan 60 years old
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"Music is music, whether it is written for the opera stage or the cinema screen."

Archival Overview

Viennese child prodigy hailed by Mahler whose opera 'Die tote Stadt' and symphonic, swashbuckling Hollywood scores ('The Adventures of Robin Hood') created the classic golden age cinema sound.

Biographical Record

Erich Wolfgang Korngold was born on May 29, 1897, in Brünn, the son of Vienna's most powerful music critic, Julius Korngold. At age eleven, his ballet Der Schneemann was staged at the Vienna Court Opera, and at age twenty-three, his tragic opera Die tote Stadt premiered to international sensation.

Invited to Hollywood by Max Reinhardt in 1934, Korngold created the majestic symphonic film score, winning two Oscars (for Anthony Adverse and The Adventures of Robin Hood). His lavish orchestral style directly influenced John Williams and modern cinema scoring. After World War II, he returned to concert music, composing his celebrated Violin Concerto.

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Hollywood Forever Cemetery
Los Angeles, California, United States
GPS: 34.0890, -118.3190
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