Erich Korngold
Erich Korngold
Erich Wolfgang Korngoldwas a Viennese composer born in Moravia, Austria-Hungaryand naturalized in United States in 1943...
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I believe that my newly completed symphony will show the world that atonality and ugly dissonance at the price of giving up inspiration, form, expression, melody and beauty will result in ultimate disaster for the art of music.
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When there are sequences when the eye, and not the ear, is the primary object, then the composer has his fling in the writing of incidental background music. In this branch of musical writing there have been some of the finest examples of orchestral music which our age has produced.
As for my working habits, I like the idea of perfection. If a thing is not right it is done over and over again.
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Producers have realized that public taste in music has risen, and we are now conducting a test which will eventually lead to the writing of entire modern operas for the screen. When that day comes, composers will accept the motion picture as a musical form equal to the opera or the symphony.
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Music is music whether it is for the stage, rostrum or cinema .