HERRMANN, BERNARD

HERRMANN, BERNARD
HERRMANN, BERNARD (1911–1975), U.S. composer and conductor. Born in New York City, Herrmann studied at New York University and the Juilliard School of Music with Percy Grainger, Philip James, and Bernard Wagenaar. He composed music for radio, and became one of the world's most famous composers of film scores (40 scores between 1941 and 1966), notably for Orson Welles (Citizen Kane and The Magnificent Ambersons) and Alfred Hitchcock, including Psycho, in which he displayed new sensitivity and dramatic understanding of the medium. His other works include Moby Dick (1937), a dramatic cantata for male chorus, soloists, speakers, and large orchestra; the operas Wuthering Heights (1951), A Christmas Carol (1954), and A Child is Born (1955); a musical, The King of Schnorrers (1970); many orchestral works; and a string quartet, Echoes. As a conductor, Herrmann took special interest in little-known works (his championship of Charles Ives is noteworthy in this respect) and made many recordings. He spent the last 10 years of his life in England, continuing conducting and composing. -BIBLIOGRAPHY: Grove online; E. Johnson: Bernard Herrmann: Hollywood's Music-Dramatist (1977); S.C. Smith: A Heart at Fire's Center: The Life and Music of Bernard Herrmann (1991) (Max Loppert / Israela Stein (2nd ed.)

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  • Herrmann, Bernard — born June 29, 1911, New York, N.Y., U.S. died Dec. 24, 1975, Los Angeles, Calif. U.S. composer. He studied at New York University and Juilliard and was one of a group of young composers associated with Charles Ives in the 1930s. Active in radio… …   Universalium

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  • Bernard Herrmann — (New York, EEUU, 1911 Hollywood, California, EEUU, 1975) Compositor estadounidense de música de cine. Su debút lo hizo gracias a Orson Welles con Ciudadano Kane y su colaboración más conocida y continua fue con Alfred Hitchcock …   Enciclopedia Universal

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