{"id":145,"date":"2008-12-02T12:57:28","date_gmt":"2008-12-02T17:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/cinemasexiles\/2008\/12\/02\/biography-erich-wolfgang-korngold\/"},"modified":"2011-09-30T14:26:14","modified_gmt":"2011-09-30T18:26:14","slug":"biography-erich-wolfgang-korngold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/cinemasexiles\/biographies\/the-composers\/biography-erich-wolfgang-korngold\/145\/","title":{"rendered":"Biography: Erich Wolfgang Korngold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dartmouth.edu\/%7Egerm43\/resources\/biographies\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Biography by Gerd Gem\u00fcnden<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nProfessor of German Studies, Film and Media Studies, and Comparative Literature<br \/>\nDartmouth College<\/p>\n<p>(b. Br\u00fcnn, Moravia 1897 \u2013 d. Hollywood 1957)<\/p>\n<div class=\"captionRight\">\n<table border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/cinemasexiles\/files\/2008\/12\/korngold_app_lg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-102\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/cinemasexiles\/files\/2008\/12\/korngold_app.jpg\" alt=\"Erich Wolfgang Korngold citizenship application\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo from Korngold\u2019s application for U.S. citizenship.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/cinemasexiles\/files\/2008\/12\/korngold_app_lg.jpg\">Click to see the application.<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>Composer. Along with fellow Europeans Max Steiner and Franz Waxman, Korngold elevated the status of film music from incidental accompaniment to a new art form. A successful composer on the Continent and prot\u00e9g\u00e9 of impresario Max Reinhardt before emigrating to the United States, Korngold was a child prodigy who began composing at age 13. Reinhardt brought him to Hollywood when the director made his ambitious film version of <em>A Midsummer Night&#8217;s Dream<\/em> (1935). Korngold&#8217;s beautiful adaptation of Mendelssohn&#8217;s music themes so impressed Warner Bros. that the studio hired him to score <em>Captain Blood<\/em> (dir. Michael Curtiz, 1935) and <em>Anthony Adverse<\/em> (1936, which won Korngold his first Oscar). He returned to Austria to stage an opera, but a postponement brought him back to Hollywood to work on <em>The Adventures of Robin Hood<\/em> (dir. Curtiz, 1938). The &#8220;Anschluss&#8221; of his native Austria forced him to remain in the US, becoming a citizen in 1943. Many Korngold aficionados consider <em>Kings Row<\/em> (1942) to be his greatest work. Other scores include <em>Juarez<\/em> (dir. William Dieterle, 1939), <em>The Sea Wolf<\/em> (dir. Curtiz, 1941), T<em>he Constant Nymph<\/em> (1943), <em>Devotion<\/em> (dir. Curtis Bernhardt), <em>Deception,<\/em> <em>Of Human Bondage<\/em> (all 1946), <em>Escape Me Never<\/em> (1947), and <em>Magic  Fire<\/em> (dir. Dieterle, 1956, his last). He worked in all areas of musical composition, never limiting himself to film scores alone; his operas, symphonies, chamber music, and concertos are still performed today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography by Gerd Gem\u00fcnden Professor of German Studies, Film and Media Studies, and Comparative Literature Dartmouth College (b. Br\u00fcnn, Moravia 1897 \u2013 d. Hollywood 1957) Photo from Korngold\u2019s application for U.S. citizenship. Click to see the application. Composer. 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