Composer Movies

This short film provides a fanciful account of how Felix Mendelssohn came to compose "The Wedding March".

Newly arrived in the nineteenth century court of Emperor Francis 1st of Austria Countess Valerie happens to overhear a young pianist and advises him...

Ahmed Malek’s name might have been forgotten by his fellow Algerians but his timeless tunes certainly haven’t. Called the Ennio Morricone...

A young man loses his fiancee, struck by lightning, on his wedding day.

The film tells the exciting life of the great Czech composer Leos Janácek (1854-1928), also known by the thick silver hair that crowned his...

Aging composer Franz Liszt lives in an abbey. On his birthday, a priest brings him a box that was just delivered; there is no return address. In the...

A career overview of tv/film composer Billy Goldenberg.

In a triumphant career that lasted forty years Erroll Garner pushed the playability of the piano to its limits, developed an international...

"A soundscape is any collection of sounds, almost like a painting is a collection of visual attractions," says composer R. Murray Schafer. "When you...

The artistic evolution of the great composer, whose work left an indelible mark in the history of Italian cinema. In this documentary Nino Rota's...

Like the play from which it derived, the film tells of the early struggles of composer Edvard Grieg and his attempts to develop an authentic...

Hosted by Bette Midler, enjoy a musical tribute to the man who wrote some of the most enduring songs in American popular music. Lyricist Hal David...

The lives of a composer and his wife, who live on a chicken farm, are thrown into turmoil when a femme fatale joins their household.

A composer is stuck in a middle-class marriage and finds that his affair with his wife's half-sister has resulted in a pregnancy. When his wife...

A documentary on how composer Kevin MacLeod unwittingly became one of the most heard composers in the world by releasing thousands of songs for free.

The biography of world famous Polish composer Fryderyk Chopin.

Filmed in Austria for the hundredth anniversary of Beethoven's death, this 1927 silent film tells the story of the German genius' eventful emotional...

The life of Ukrainian-Soviet avant-garde composer Alexander Mosolov inspires three stories about creation and individualism in the face of state...

Documentary about Canadian composer John Wyre.