Movies about composers

[mikkeljs]

I came across a lot of composer movies by searching, most of them I have never heard about. I hope to find them somewhere, maybe someone knows about some of the more unknown ones. Im not sure if some of the names on my list are documentaries, as they are listed as such, but I found out that Ken Russells documentary movies were actual movies, not documentaries. Here is the list:

Bartók: - 50-minute Monitor special (1964)

Bax: - The Secret Life of Arnold Bax: South Bank Show documentary (1992)

Bruckner: - The Strange Affliction of Anton Bruckner: South Bank Show (1990)

Debussy: - The Debussy Film: 85 minute Monitor special (1965)

Delerue, George: - Don't Shoot The Composer: documentary for Omnibus (1966)

Delius: - Song of Summer: 72-minute film for Omnibus (1968)

Elgar:
- Elgar: 56-minute Monitor special (1962)
- Fantasy of a Composer on a Bicycle, a 52-minute South Bank Show (2002)

Jacob: - 17-minute documentary on Gordon Jacob for Monitor (1959)

Liszt: - Lisztomania, feature film (1975)

Mahler - Mahler, feature film (1974)

Martinu: - The Mystery of Dr Martinu, 60-minute fantasy (1992)

Prokofiev: - Prokofiev: 28-minute documentary for Monitor (1961)

Strauss, Richard: - Dance of the Seven Veils: 55-minute film for Omnibus (1970)

Tchaikovsky: - The Music Lovers, Glenda Jackson, feature film (1970)

Vaughan Williams: - 60-minute South Bank Show documentary (1984)

Adams: Hail Bop 1997 film on John Adams.

Arnold: Toward the Unknown Region - Malcolm Arnold(2004)

Berlioz: I, Berlioz - with Corin Redgrave (1992)

Brahms: Brahms and The Little Singing Girls - with Warren Mitchell (1996)

Britten:
- Benjamin Britten & his Festival (1967)
- A Time There Was - a profile (1979)
- Death in Venice - opera (1981)

Chopin: The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka - with Penelope Wilton (1999)

Dvorak: Dvořak in Love? - with Julian Lloyd Webber (1988)

Handel: - God Rot Tunbridge Wells - by John Osborne, with Trevor Howard (1984/85)

Holst: - In the Bleak Midwinter (2011) BBC4 documentary 140min

Mahler: Mahler 9 (aka Four Ways to Say Farewell)- with Leonard Bernstein (1971)

Orff: O, Fortuna! - Carl Orff & Carmina Burana (2008

Puccini: - Puccini with Virginia McKenna & Robert Stephens (1984)

Purcell: England, my England - by John Osborne & Charles Wood; with Simon Callow and Michael Ball; music conducted by John Eliot Gardiner (1995)

Rachmainoff: The Harvest of Sorrow, a portrait (1998)

Shosatakovich: - Testimony - starring Ben Kingsley (1987)

Stravinsky: - Once, at a Border... - profile (1982) R

Vaughan Williams: O Thou Transcendent - The Life of Vaughan Williams (2007)

Wagner:
              - Wagner - by Charles Wood, music conducted by Georg Solti, photographed by Vittorio Storaro; with Richard Burton, Vanessa Redgrave, Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, etc. (1983)
               - The Wagner Family (2009)

William Walton: At the Haunted End of the Day 1980

Beethoven:
                    - Immortal Beloved (1994) Director: Bernard Rose
                   - Copying Beethoven, (Klang der Stille) (2006) Director: Agnieszka Holland
                    - Beethoven Lives Upstairs (1992) directed by David Devine.(for children)

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Chopin:
              - Desire for Love (2002) Jerzy Antczak (Director)
               - Impromptu: (1991) with Hugh Grant. Director James Lapine
               - A Song to Remember (1945) Cornell Wilde, Merle Operon, directed by Charles Vidor, oscar nominated
               - La note bleue (1991) Zulawski
Liszt: Song without End (1960) Dirk Bogard, directed by Charles Vidor

Mahler:  - Bride of the Wind (2001) Sarah Wynter, Jonathan Pryce, director Bruce Beresford

Mozart: - Amadeus (1984) Director: Milos Forman

Schubert: - Notturno, ("Mit meinen heissen Tränen") Director: Fritz Lehner

Schumann:- Spring Symphony("Frühlingssinfonie") (1983) Peter Schamoni (Director)
                   - Song of Love (1947) Katherine Hepburn, Clarence Brown (Director)

Strauss:- The Waltz King (1963) Steve Previn (Director)

Stravinsky: - Coco Chanel & Stravinsky (2010)

Tchaikovsky: - Tchaikovsky (1972): Igor Talankin (Director) oscar nominated

Verdi: - The Life of Verdi (1984)

Wagner:  - Wagner - The Complete Epic (1983) Laurence Olivier, Richard Burton, Vanessa Redgrave.

Carl Nielsen: Min Fynske Barndom (1994)

Sibelius: Sibelius (2003)

I also heard about a new movie about Vivaldi, but apparently it is not yet released.

[Drasko]

Tchaikovsky: - Tchaikovsky (1972): Igor Talankin (Director) oscar nominated

complete in two parts, with English subtitles:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyp4p9dfHbg
http://www.youtube.com/movie?v=DtCtiBPl1Ws

Strauss, Richard: - Dance of the Seven Veils: 55-minute film for Omnibus (1970)

complete in six parts, part one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vooM2wzwF0E

[Drasko]

Chopin:
              - Desire for Love (2002) Jerzy Antczak (Director)
               - Impromptu: (1991) with Hugh Grant. Director James Lapine
               - A Song to Remember (1945) Cornell Wilde, Merle Operon, directed by Charles Vidor, oscar nominated)

Zulawski's La note bleue (1991)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102557/

[mikkeljs]

thanks a lot for those youtube link. I also found some of the other films on youtube.

Zulawski's La note bleue (1991)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102557/

I think I have seen this one, though Im not sure if its the same. I remember a movie called "blue" about a composer, but I thought the composer was fictional?

[Drasko]

I think I have seen this one, though Im not sure if its the same. I remember a movie called "blue" about a composer, but I thought the composer was fictional?

Not the same. What you saw is Kieslowski's Three Colors: Blue

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108394/

[mikkeljs]

complete in two parts, with English subtitles:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyp4p9dfHbg
http://www.youtube.com/movie?v=DtCtiBPl1Ws

complete in six parts, part one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vooM2wzwF0E

I just tried it, but there are no subtitles in the Tchaikovsky. But thanks anyway.

[mikkeljs]

Not the same. What you saw is Kieslowski's Three Colors: Blue

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108394/

Ahh, ok. I will add the La note bleue to the list. thanks

[petrarch]

There's also the excellent Tous les matins du monde, by Alain Corneau, about Marin Marais and M. de Ste. Colombe.

[Hollywood]

Here are some more Mozart films:

Whom the Gods Love: The Original Story of Mozart and His Wife (1936) with Stephen Haggard as Mozart.
Wen die Götter lieben (1942) with Hans Holt as Mozart (this is one of my favorite Austrian made films).
Reich mir die Hand, mein Leben (1955) with Oskar Werner as Mozart.