Language:Chinese.Paperback. Pub Date: 1996. Pages: 239 in Publisher: Phaidon Press This is On the story of Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957). the who idged the worlds of serious music. in operetta. and film scores The son of Vienna's most powerful turn -of-the-century music critic. he achieved legendary status as a child-prodigy composer with the operas Violanta and Die Tote Stadt. Pressures of adult life steered him into arranging the operettas of Johann Strauss. his contemporaries and then Hollywood. Korngold became a highly regarded composer of incidental music for films such as Sea Hawk and The Adventures of Robin Hood. He ignored the changing tides of musical fashion. and continued to write in his own romantic idiom . creating scores which establish him - within the film-music genres - as one of this century's most influential composers. This study offers a reappraisa... - from Amzon