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Korngold in America

Music, Myth, and Hollywood

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

AvBen 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 Drawing on previously unpublished archival materials, Korngold in America reveals Korngold's commercial and artistic relationships with studio processes and staff, highlights aspects of his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.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-06-07
Mått156 x 20 x 235 mm
Vikt510 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieOxford Music / Media
Antal sidor288
FörlagOUP USA
ISBN9780197684771

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Introduction: A Composer in Transition? Chapter 1: Korngold and the Hollywood Studio System: A Productive Working Relationship Chapter 2: A Musician for Hire: Korngold's Contracts with Warner Bros. Chapter 3: A Hollywood Compositional Toolbox Chapter 4: Korngold, the Hollywood Dramatist Chapter 5: Korngold, Materiality, and Worldbuilding Chapter 6: Korngold between Two Worlds: Hollywood and the Concert Hall Chapter 7: Korngold's Hollywood Legacy: The Purer Realm of Phantasy

The music of Erich Wolfgang Korngold is nowadays probably something of a guilty pleasure. Most of us have, I imagine, cracked the old 'more corn than gold' quip as if it were our own, and have cast aspersions on the Violin Concerto (1945) to which it was first applied. Yet, at the same time, we have secretly luxuriated in the astonishing melody of the Concerto's second theme, probably unaware of its verbatim borrowing from Korngold's music for the film Juarez (1939), and almost certainly ignorant of the film-specific practices and processes through which that music came to be. The above is a crude snapshot of the many complex issues that Ben Winters explores in his excellent new Korngold book.