Erich Wolfgang Korngold

Mahler called him a genius when he was ten, and at twenty-three he premiered the opera Die tote Stadt. Max Reinhardt brought him to Hollywood in 1934. When the Nazis took Austria he stayed in the United States, and Warner let him treat each film like an opera without singers. The Errol Flynn swashbuckler scores come from him.

Style

Brass fanfares, lush strings and the harmony of Strauss and Puccini opera.

Awards

Oscar for The Adventures of Robin Hood (1939). The score for Anthony Adverse also won, but at the time the statuette went to the studio's music department head, Leo Forbstein.

Essential films

• Captain Blood (1935)
• Anthony Adverse (1936)
• The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
• The Sea Hawk (1940)
• Kings Row (1942)

Listen

• The Adventures of Robin Hood: Main Title · The Adventures of Robin HoodSpotifyYouTube
• The Sea Hawk: Main Title · The Sea HawkSpotifyYouTube

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