Composer Movies

An exploration of Edmond Dédé and Basile Barès were 19th-century New Orleans composers of color. Dédé, born free,...

Children and childhood fascinated Benjamin Britten throughout his life and inspired some of his greatest music. John Bridcut's compelling film sheds...

A documentary about one of the most influential Latvian composers, Tālivaldis Ķeniņš, who lives in Canada.

Fifty years after his death, this musical and psychological portrait of Ralph Vaughan Williams explores the passions that drove a giant of...

A look back at the violent conflict between the two leading figures of musical modernity, Arnold Schönberg and Igor Stravinsky, in the first...

A prolific composer and one of the most celebrated poets in Brazilian music, Paulo César Pinheiro is the author of Canto das Três...

Brilliant composer and violinist George Enescu is at the peak of his career and wants to compose an opera. He falls in love with a princess, Maruca,...

Vienna, Austria, late 1870s. After suffering an irreparable misfortune, the Austrian composer Johann Strauss Jr. (1825-99), the Waltz King, falls in...

In the early 1920s, filmmaker and cabaret director Karlo Armano meets a mysterious woman who only calls herself Dora. After a night of passionate...

Ever-innovative and pioneering contemporary composer İlhan Usmanbaş celebrated his 100th birthday! Usmanbaş shared his life story with...

Award-winning filmmaker Tony Palmer directs this riveting documentary on the life and times of influential English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams....

A short film by conservatory students.

A young violin prodigy is manipulated and pushed to her psychological breaking point by the composer she adores.

Johann Strauss, Jr., a would-be composer of waltzes in mid-19th Century Vienna, attempts to thwart his father's efforts to prevent his success when...

Six composers work on a composition to be performed in a shopping mall.

Ukrainian composer Mykola Lysenko goes for a walk in Kyiv. Along the way, his memory takes him back in time: first to his childhood in the village of...

A portrait of the film-composer David Raksin, made for German television. Released in 1994.