Double Lives: Film Composers in the Concert Hall

James Wierzbicki

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2019
• eBook ISBN:
  9780429671494
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Music

Double Lives: Film Composers in the Concert Hall is a collection of fifteen essays dealing with 'iconic' film composers who, perhaps to the surprise of many fans of film music, nevertheless maintained lifelong careers as composers for the concert hall. Featured composers include Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Franz Waxman, Miklós Rózsa, Bernard Herrmann, Nino Rota, Leonard Rosenman, and Ennio Morricone. Progressing in chronological order, the chapters offer accounts of the various composers' concert-hall careers and descriptions of their concert-hall styles. Each chapter compares the composer's music for films with his or her music for the concert hall, and speculates as to how music in one arena might have affected music in the other. For each composer discussed in the book, complete filmographies and complete works lists are included as appendices. Double Lives: Film Composers in the Concert Hall is accessible for scholars, researchers, and general readers with an interest in film music and concert music.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Notes on contributors
• Introduction
• 1 Erich Wolfgang Korngold: the last prodigy
• 2 The concert works of Georges Auric, 1945 to 1983
• 3 Looking for Mr. Hyde: Franz Waxman’s musical activities beyond film
• 4 The double life of Miklós Rózsa’s Violin Concerto and The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
• 5 Bernard Herrmann’s concert music, 1935 to 1975: an overview
• 6 Nino Rota: neo-classicist, classical modernist, or pragmatic pluralist?
• 7 Jerome Moross: the concert hall and stage works
• 8 Don Banks: Hammer horror and serial composition
• 9 Modern composer off the screen: Leonard Rosenman’s concert music
• 10 The maestro of multiple voices: the ‘absolute music’ of Ennio Morricone
• 11 ‘I did it for fun’: André Previn, crossover musician
• 12 Wojciech Kilar: ‘I am like a Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde’
• 13 Alberto Iglesias: the Spanish composer behind Pedro Almodóvar’s films
• 14 Johannes factotum: Jóhann Jóhannsson
• 15 Laura Rossi’s war musics
• Appendix 1: Filmographies
• Appendix 2: Works lists
• Index