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Professor Erich Wolfgang Korngold: Cover of the Composer with sender stamp at the reverse of the cover and hand written mark „ Don't close". Sent without stamp, postage to be charged from addressee.
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Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897 -1957) was an Academy Award-winning 20th century film and romantic music composer.
Korngold had success in Europe with his opera Die tote Stadt (1920), among other works, before moving in 1934 to the United States. There he composed a number of film scores that have been recognized ever since as classics of their kind, beginning with an adaptation of Felix Mendelssohn's incidental music for A Midsummer's Night's Dream (1935), the Max Reinhardt version of the Shakespeare comedy released by Warner Brothers.
In 1943, Korngold became a naturalized citizen of the United States. Korngold stopped writing original film scores after 1946. His final score at Warner Bros. was Deception starring Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, and Claude Rains. However, he was asked by Republic Pictures to adapt the music of Richard Wagner for a film biography of the composer, released in Trucolor, as Magic Fire (1955), directed by William Dieterle from a script by Ewald Andre Dupont. Korngold also wrote some original music for the film and had an unbilled cameo as the conductor Hans Richter. Korngold died in North Hollywood on November 29, 1957 and was buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
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