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71-564: "Hollywood in Vienna" is a red carpet film music gala-concert in the Vienna Concert Hall, where the City of Vienna honours the most prestigious film composers of our time with the »Max Steiner Film Music Achievement Award«. The gala has established itself as one of the leading film music events world-wide and is broadcast via TV to 35 countries. The gala concert was initiated in 2007 by Sandra Tomek, Tomek Productions , and has since then been produced by Tomek Productions and Echo Medienhaus and co-produced by Michael Balgavy. The gala also commemorates

142-520: A "rage to master") the cerebellum accelerates the streamlining of the efficiencies of working memory in its manipulation and decomposition/re-composition of visual-spatial content into language acquisition and into linguistic, mathematical, and artistic precocity. Essentially, Vandervert has argued that when a child is confronted with a challenging new situation, visual-spatial working memory and speech-related and other notational system-related working memory are decomposed and re-composed (fractionated) by

213-512: A child in mathematics, but he taught himself algorithms and tricks for calculatory speed, becoming capable of extremely complex mental math. His brain, compared to six other controls, was studied using the PET scan, revealing separate areas of his brain that he manipulated to solve complex problems. Some of the areas that he and presumably prodigies use are brain sectors dealing in visual and spatial memory, as well as visual mental imagery . Other areas of

284-722: A collection of little-known Strauss pieces that they arranged, Waltzes From Vienna . It was retitled The Great Waltz and became the basis for a 1934 British film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and a film by the same name in the US, starring Luise Rainer . Korngold conducted staged versions in Los Angeles in 1949 and 1953. He completed a Concerto for Piano Left Hand for pianist Paul Wittgenstein in 1923 and his fourth opera, Das Wunder der Heliane , four years later. He started arranging and conducting operettas by Johann Strauss II and others while teaching opera and composition at

355-457: A couple of engaging cues were written by Korngold orchestrator Milan Roder. In the end, Korngold insisted he be credited only with musical adaptations, even though he scored nearly the entire film with original music. Captain Blood became an immediate hit, with an Oscar nomination for the score. As Korngold's first fully symphonic film score, it marked a milestone in his career, as he became

426-472: A field of expertise, is capable of holding relevant information for extended periods, usually hours. For example, experienced waiters have been found to hold the orders of up to twenty customers in their heads while they serve them, but perform only as well as an average person in number-sequence recognition. The PET scans also answer questions about which specific areas of the brain associate themselves with manipulating numbers. One subject never excelled as

497-411: A film biography of the composer Richard Wagner . He was asked to adapt the music of Wagner for most of the film, but Korngold also wrote some original music for it. He is seen during the final scenes in an unbilled cameo as the conductor Hans Richter . At the time of his death at age 60, he was working on his sixth opera. His strong points are lyrical melody, rich textures and virtuoso orchestration;

568-565: A generally romantic manner. Korngold's original and distinctive style was influenced by the Wagnerian leitmotif , the orchestral virtuosity of Richard Strauss, the delicacy and broad melodic sweep of Puccini , and the long-line development of Gustav Mahler. Before Korngold began composing the score, Austria was invaded by Germany and annexed by the Nazis . His home in Vienna was confiscated by

639-526: A greater demand for visuospatial information processing and visual-motor imagination in abacus mental calculation. Additionally, the right middle frontal gyrus activation is suggested to be the neuroanatomical link between prodigies’ abacus mental calculation and the visuospatial working memory.  This activation serves a mediation effect on the correlation between abacus-based mental calculation and visuospatial working memory . A training-induced neuroplasticity regarding working memory performance for children

710-550: A musician. A child prodigy living in Vienna , Erich could play four-hand piano arrangements alongside his father at age five. He was also able to reproduce any melody he heard on the piano, along with playing complete and elaborate chords. By age seven, he was writing original music. Korngold played his cantata Gold for Gustav Mahler in 1909; Mahler called him a "musical genius" and recommended he study with composer Alexander von Zemlinsky . Richard Strauss also spoke highly of

781-712: A passion for the music of Johann Strauss II and managed to exhume a number of lost scores. He orchestrated and staged them using new concepts. Both A Night in Venice and Cagliostro in Vienna are Korngold re-creations; these were the works that first drew the attention of Max Reinhardt to Korngold. By this point Korngold had reached the zenith of his fame as a composer of opera and concert music. Composers such as Richard Strauss and Giacomo Puccini heaped praise upon him, and many famous conductors, soloists and singers added his works to their repertoires. He began collaborating with Reinhardt on many productions, including

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852-626: A piano trio. His Piano Sonata No. 2 in E major, which followed, was played throughout Europe by Artur Schnabel . During these early years he also made live-recording player piano music rolls for the Hupfeld DEA and Phonola system and also the Aeolian Duo-Art system, which survive today and can be heard. Korngold wrote his first orchestral score, the Schauspiel-Ouvertüre , when he was 14. His Sinfonietta appeared

923-673: A sensation in Vienna; his Second Piano Sonata, which he wrote at age 13, was played throughout Europe by Artur Schnabel . His one-act operas Violanta and Der Ring des Polykrates were premiered in Munich in 1916, conducted by Bruno Walter . At 23, his opera Die tote Stadt (The Dead City) premiered in Hamburg and Cologne. In 1921 he conducted the Hamburg Opera. During the 1920s he re-orchestrated, re-arranged and nearly re-composed several operettas by Johann Strauss II . By 1931 he

994-566: A significant point, perhaps at the agricultural-religious settlements of Göbekli Tepe or Cyprus . Some researchers believe that prodigious talent tends to arise as a result of the innate talent of the child, and the energetic and emotional investment that the child ventures. Others believe that the environment plays the dominant role, many times in obvious ways. For example, László Polgár set out to raise his children to be chess players, and all three of his daughters went on to become world-class players (two of whom are grandmasters ), emphasising

1065-452: A teaching position at Harvard Noting that the cerebellum acts to streamline the speed and efficiency of all thought processes, Vandervert explained the abilities of prodigies in terms of the collaboration of working memory and the cognitive functions of the cerebellum. Citing extensive imaging evidence, Vandervert first proposed this approach in two publications which appeared in 2003. In addition to imaging evidence, Vandervert's approach

1136-434: A tormented and brutal captain of a sealing schooner, which gets crippled by a rival ship. To support the complex atmosphere, with its scenes of the fog-shrouded voyage, Korngold created a score that was understated, which was very different from his swashbucklers. He often used sharp brass chords with swirling configurations, along with a love theme voiced by a harmonica. Music historian Thomas S. Hischak notes some aspects of

1207-474: Is an accepted version of this page A child prodigy is, technically, a child under the age of 10 who produces meaningful work in some domain at the level of an adult expert. The term is also applied more broadly to describe young people who are extraordinarily talented in some field. The term wunderkind (from German Wunderkind ; literally "wonder child") is sometimes used as a synonym for child prodigy, particularly in media accounts. Wunderkind also

1278-450: Is energy-consuming and requires attention to correct mistakes. As prodigies start formal chess training early with intense dedication to deliberate practice, they may accumulate enough deliberate practice for their exceptional performance. Therefore, this framework provide an arguably reasonable justification for chess prodigies. However, similar amounts of practice also make children differ in their achievements because of other factors such as

1349-530: Is more plastic . Besides the quality of practice, and the parental investment, the experience of flow during the practice is important for efficient and adequate practice for music prodigies. Practice demands high levels of concentration, which is hard for children in general, but flow can provide inherent pleasures of the practice to ensure this focused work. PET scans performed on several mathematics prodigies have suggested that they think in terms of long-term working memory (LTWM). This memory , specific to

1420-559: Is not always maintained into adulthood. Some researchers have found that gifted children fall behind due to lack of effort. Jim Taylor, professor at the University of San Francisco, theorizes that this is because gifted children experience success at an early age with little to no effort and may not develop a sense of ownership of success. Therefore, these children might not develop a connection between effort and outcome. Some children might also believe that they can succeed without effort in

1491-662: Is one of the founders of film music . Although his late-Romantic style of classical composition was no longer as popular when he died in 1957, his music underwent a resurgence of interest in the 1970s beginning with the release of the RCA Red Seal album The Sea Hawk: The Classic Film Scores of Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1972). This album, produced by his son George Korngold , was hugely popular and ignited interest in his other film music (and that of other classic film composers), as well as in his concert music, which often incorporates popular themes from his film scores (an example being

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1562-419: Is proposed. A study examining German calculating prodigies also proposed a similar reason for exceptional calculation abilities. Excellent working memory capacities and neuroplastic changes brought by extensive practice would be essential to enhance this domain-specific skill. "My mother said that I should finish high school and go to college first." Saul Kripke in response to an invitation to apply for

1633-540: Is set in mid-18th century Italy, the Alps, and France, received an expensive treatment from Warners, which pleased him greatly. Korngold was awarded his first Academy Award for the Anthony Adverse score. In this film, the first half hour contains continuous scoring and proved to be a major step forward in the art of film scoring. Korngold conceived his film scores as "operas without singing." In 1938, Korngold

1704-445: Is supported by the substantial award-winning studies of the cerebellum by Masao Ito. Vandervert provided extensive argument that, in the prodigy, the transition from visual-spatial working memory to other forms of thought (language, art, mathematics) is accelerated by the unique emotional disposition of the prodigy and the cognitive functions of the cerebellum. According to Vandervert, in the emotion-driven prodigy (commonly observed as

1775-520: Is used to recognise those who achieve success and acclaim early in their adult careers. Generally, prodigies in all domains are suggested to have relatively elevated IQ , extraordinary memory, and exceptional attention to detail. Significantly, while math and physics prodigies may have higher IQs, this may be an impediment to art prodigies. K. Anders Ericsson emphasised the contribution of deliberate practice over their innate talent to prodigies' exceptional performance in chess. The deliberate practice

1846-426: Is varied throughout the film, depending on the how each scene develops. MacDonald states that the main theme is a "majestic and noble melody that immediately grabs the viewer's attention" when the film begins. By using this motif, the theme connects the entire score, which often left a strong impact on viewers. British composer Harold Truscott , for example, who saw the film when he was 28, wrote to Korngold admiring

1917-830: The Autism-spectrum quotient (AQ) were reported in both first-degree relatives of child prodigies and of autism, which was higher than normal prevalence. Some autistic traits can be found among prodigies. Firstly, the social function of arithmetic prodigies may be weaker because of larger activation in certain brain areas enhancing their arithmetic performance, which is also essential for social and emotional functions (i.e., precuneus, lingual and fusiform gyrus). These neuroplastic changes in neural networks may modulate their social performances in terms of emotional face processing and emotional evaluation of complex social interactions. Nevertheless, this emotional or social modulation must not score at psychopathological levels. Additionally,

1988-578: The Star Wars and Indiana Jones trilogies similarly included original symphonic scores. Composer John Williams has cited Korngold as his inspiration in scoring the Star Wars series. Korngold was interested in writing a score for Juarez , as it involved historical figures from Mexico and Austria. It dealt with the Mexican politician Benito Juarez but also involved the story of Archduke Maximilian von Habsburg and his wife, Carlotta . Korngold

2059-566: The Violin Concerto in D, Op. 35 , which incorporates themes from four of his motion picture scores and has become part of the standard repertoire). Erich Wolfgang Korngold was born to a Jewish family in Brünn, Austria-Hungary (present-day Brno , Czech Republic ). Erich was the second son of eminent music critic (Leopold) Julius Korngold (1860–1945); his older brother, Hans Robert Korngold  [ de ] (1892–1965), also became

2130-1924: The 1920s and wrote the first large orchestral soundtrack in film history for King Kong (1933). While working at RKO and Warner Brothers, Steiner composed more than 300 film scores including Gone with the Wind (1939) and Casablanca (1942). He also composed the Warner Bros Studio Fanfare. He was awarded with three Academy Awards and is considered as the "Father of Film Music" in Hollywood. The ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra Keith Lockhart, John Mauceri, Marc Shaiman , Lisa Gerrard , David Newman, Judith Hill , Olga Scheps , Ramon Vargas , Yury Revich , Frantisek Janoska, Drew Sarich , Valentian Nafornita , Aleksey Igudesman , Lebo M, Louise Dearman, Steven Gätjen , Martin Haselböck, Staatsopernballet (wie immer man das schreibt), Wiener Sängerknaben, Bolschoi Don Kosaken, Richard Bellis , Daniela Fally , Emmanuel Tjeknavorian , Superar Kinderchor, Cassandra Steen , Adrian Eröd, Ildiko Raimondi , Deborah Cox , Jeremy Schonfeld, David Arnold , Al Jarreau , Lalo Schifrin , Natalia Ushakova, Bruce Broughton , David Arnold , Alan Silvestri , Howard Shore , Harald Kloser , Alexander Frey , Barbara Broccoli , John Mauceri , James Shearman, Kate Barry, Klaus Badelt , Nicholas Dodd, Rick Porras, Gedeon Burkhard , John Axelrod, Kevin Costner , John Barry, Patrick Doyle , John Powell, Robert Dornhelm , Rebekka Bakken , Juan Garcia-Herreros, Alastair King , Christian Kolonovits, among others. Erich Wolfgang Korngold Erich Wolfgang Korngold ( German: [ˈeːʁɪç ˈvɔlfɡaŋ ˈkɔʁnɡɔlt] ; May 29, 1897 – November 29, 1957)

2201-672: The Nazis. And because it meant that all Jews in Austria were now at risk, Korngold stayed in America until the end of World War II . He later said, "We thought of ourselves as Viennese; Hitler made us Jewish." Korngold noted that the opportunity to compose the score for Robin Hood saved his life. It also gave him his second Academy Award for Best Original Score and established the symphonic style that would later be used in action films during Hollywood's Golden Age. Modern day epics such as

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2272-630: The Polish-born tenor Jan Kiepura , who had starred in several Korngold operas in Europe. In 1935 Warners asked Korngold if he was interested in writing an original dramatic score for Captain Blood . He at first declined, feeling that a story about pirates was outside his range of interest. However, after watching the filming, with a dynamic new star, Errol Flynn, in a heroic role alongside Olivia de Havilland , who had her debut in A Midsummer Night's Dream , he changed his mind. Korngold not only had

2343-514: The US after retiring from film composing in 1947. He spent the last ten years of his life composing concert pieces, including a Violin Concerto , a Symphonic Serenade for strings, a Cello Concerto and a Symphony . The Violin Concerto has become particularly successful, with many recordings and performances following Jascha Heifetz 's initial version. He returned to film scoring one more time, shortly before his death, for Magic Fire (1955),

2414-485: The Vienna Staatsakademie. Korngold was awarded the title professor honoris causa by the president of Austria . After Max Reinhardt's success in producing Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream for the stage, using incidental music by Felix Mendelssohn , he invited Korngold to Hollywood in 1934 to adapt Mendelssohn's score for his planned film version. Korngold would also enlarge and conduct

2485-429: The ability to understand and reason using concepts framed in words. However, this positive link is absent among adult experts. Remarkably, in the sample of chess prodigies, the more intelligent children played chess worse. This is considered as the result of less practice time of more intelligent chess skills. Practice-plasticity-processes (PPP) model was proposed to explain the existence of chess prodigies by integrating

2556-493: The background but also had the gift of melody, an innate sense of theater, and the skills to manipulate sentiment, emotion, humor, and excitement. In short, if Jack L. Warner had been praying for such a composer, then his prayers had been answered. film historian Tony Thomas After he accepted, however, he learned that he needed to compose over an hour of symphonic music in only three weeks. The short time frame forced him to use bits of symphonic poems by Franz Liszt , and

2627-497: The brain is, the easier it is for them to acquire chunks, templates, and heuristics for better performance. On the other hand, inherited individual differences in the brain are circumscribed children to learn these skills. Music prodigies usually express their talents in exceptional performance or composition. The Multifactorial Gene-Environment Interaction Model incorporates the roles of adequate practice, certain personality traits, elevated IQ, and exceptional working memory in

2698-664: The brain showed use by the subject, including a sector of the brain generally related to childlike "finger counting", probably used in his mind to relate numbers to the visual cortex . This finding is consistent with the introspective report of this calculating prodigy, which states that he used visual images to encode and retrieve numerical information in LTWM. Compared to short-term memory strategies, used by normal people on complex mathematical problems, encoding and retrieval episodic memory strategies would be more efficient. The prodigy may switch between these two strategies, which reduce

2769-488: The celebrations, the honored composers also hold lectures and workshops at the associated "International Film Music Symposium Vienna" (FIMU Vienna) in order to promote young musicians. The concerts with star guest Alan Menken was originally planned for October 2020, had to be postponed to September 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic . According to the organisers, no event will take place in 2023. Post-COVID19 inflation and

2840-473: The cerebellum and then blended in the cerebral cortex in an attempt to deal with the new situation. In child prodigies, Vandervert believes this blending process is accelerated due to their unique emotional sensitivities which result in high levels of repetitious focus on, in most cases, particular rule-governed knowledge domains. He has also argued that child prodigies first began to appear about 10,000 years ago when rule-governed knowledge had accumulated to

2911-400: The characters portray a wide range of psychological emotions, from loves and hates, bitterness, tenderness and torment. Combined with Korngold's score, which some claim is among his finest, the film drew an unusually high level of public interest and acclaim. Its costar, future President Ronald Reagan , considered his performance the best of his career. The score contains a main theme which

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2982-405: The composers who emigrated from Vienna in the 20th century to establish the classic Hollywood sound in Hollywood. The composers included Erich Wolfgang Korngold , Max Steiner , Arnold Schoenberg and others. In recent years, world-famous film music composers such as Danny Elfman, Alexandre Desplat, Randy Newman, Hans Zimmer and, 2019 Gabriel Yared have been among the awardees. In the course of

3053-400: The explanation of music prodigies. A study comparing current and former prodigies with normal people and musicians who showed their talents or were trained later in life to test this model. It found prodigies neither have exceptional performance in terms of IQ, working memory, nor specific personality. This study also emphasises the significance of frequent practice early in life, when the brain

3124-683: The favor of the rulers, abandoned their native style and copied that of [Johann] Strauss . Erich Korngold After the United States demanded that France divest itself of its interests in Mexico, the Austrian aristocrat was left to his fate, and he was executed by the Juarez government. The dramatic accent of the film leaned in favor of Maximilian and Carlotta, however, aided greatly by Korngold's poignant themes for them. Korngold researched

3195-624: The film a success, including its cast, its Technicolor photography and fast-paced direction by Michael Curtiz , but "most of all, there is Korngold's glorious music." And film historian Rudy Behlmer describes Korngold's contribution to this and his other films: Korngold's score was a splendid added dimension. His style for the Flynn swashbucklers resembled that of the creators of late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century German symphonic tone poems. It incorporated chromatic harmonies, lush instrumental effects, passionate climaxes—all performed in

3266-496: The film for the benefit of actors, whom he then had act to the rhythm and tempo of the music. As a result of the score's elaborate tailoring, the film and Korngold's music left a strong impression on the film industry. Korngold returned to Austria to finish Die Kathrin . He came back to Hollywood to score the film Give Us This Night , with lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II , a film which introduced mezzo-soprano Gladys Swarthout and

3337-667: The first composer of international stature to sign a contract with a film studio. It also launched the career of Flynn and gave a major boost to that of de Havilland, who did another seven movies with Flynn. Korngold scored six more films starring Flynn. In addition, Captain Blood opened the way for other costumed romantic adventures, which hadn't been seen since the silent era. After scoring Anthony Adverse , another Warners picture, this one starring Fredric March and Olivia de Havilland, Korngold's career in Hollywood developed quickly. He finally became convinced that dramatic scoring went well with certain types of films. The film, which

3408-425: The following year, and his first two operas, Der Ring des Polykrates and Violanta , in 1914. In 1916, he wrote songs, chamber works, and incidental music, including to Much Ado About Nothing , which ran for some 80 performances in Vienna. Korngold was active in the theatre throughout Europe while in his 20s. After the success of his opera Die tote Stadt , which he conducted in many opera houses, he developed

3479-418: The future as well. Dr. Anders Ericcson, professor at Florida State University, researches expert performance in sports, music, mathematics, and other activities. His findings demonstrate that prodigiousness in childhood is not a strong indicator of later success. Rather, the number of hours devoted to the activity was a better indicator. Rosemary Callard-Szulgit and other educators have written extensively about

3550-502: The loss of two major partners made it economically impossible. While the organisers feel that they are unable to get the concert off the ground, they hope to the able to do more galas in the incoming years. The award is given as a symbol of recognition for exceptional achievements in the art of film music. The Max Steiner Award commemorates the Viennese composer Max Steiner , who invented the essential techniques of film scoring back in

3621-445: The most exciting swordfights in cinema history", while Behlmer describes the duel scene as a " tour de force of rhythmic energy and exactitude." In scoring The Sea Wolf , based on a novel by Jack London , Korngold's film career went in a different direction. In this film, the score reflects an evil atmosphere, dark images, and the tense emotions of its crew during an unfortunate voyage. Edward G. Robinson , as Wolf Larsen, plays

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3692-417: The music has a strong sense of the theatre and of theatrical effectiveness, but is deficient in contrapuntal vitality. His emotional directness and lack of inhibition, his unashamedly grand manner and the sheer exuberance of his invention breathed new life into a moribund tradition and have ensured the renewed and growing interest in his work which the last few years have witnessed. Child prodigy This

3763-432: The music popular in Mexico at the time and realized it was not Mexican but "unmistakenly Viennese ." He composed 3,000 bars of music for the score, at times emulating the rhythms of Frédéric Chopin and Franz Schubert , and the second theme of the first movement of his Violin Concerto was drawn from his work for the film. Maximilian and Carlotta loved the Mexican song " La Paloma ," and Korngold used it effectively during

3834-437: The physical abacus act as visual proxies of each digit for prodigies to solve complex computations. This one-to-one corresponding structure allows them to rapidly encode and retrieve digits in the long-term working memory during the calculation. The fMRI scans showed stronger activation of brain areas related to visual processing for Chinese children being trained with abacus mental compared to control groups. This may indicate

3905-483: The potency a child's environment can have in determining the pursuits toward which a child's energy will be directed, and showing that an incredible amount of skill can be developed through suitable training. Co-incidence theory explains the development of prodigies with a continuum of the discussion of nature and nurture. This theory states that the integrative of various factors in the development and expression of human potential, including: Prodigiousness in childhood

3976-438: The practice extreme and innate talent extreme theories. Besides deliberate practice, neuroplasticity is identified as another critical component for developing chess heuristics (e.g., simple search techniques and abstract rules like “occupy the centre”), chunks (e.g., group of pieces locating in specific squares), and templates (e.g., familiarised complex patterns of chunks), which are essential for chess skills. The more plastic

4047-420: The problem of perfectionism in bright children, calling it their "number one social-emotional trait". Gifted children often associate even slight imperfection with failure, so that they become fearful of effort, even in their personal lives, and in extreme cases end up virtually immobilized. Prodigies have been found with the over-representation of relatives with autism on their family pedigrees. Autism traits on

4118-427: The quality of deliberate practice, and their interests in chess. Chess prodigies may have higher IQs than normal children. This positive link between chess skills of prodigies and intelligence is particularly significant on the “performance intelligence”, regarding fluid reasoning, spatial processing, attentiveness to details, and visual-motor integration, while least significant on the “verbal intelligence”, regarding

4189-576: The score. Korngold was again nominated for his score of The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex . The score is essentially operatic, with lush background music throughout, a rousing march theme for Essex (Errol Flynn), and one of his "most noble and heroic melodies" for the theme "Elizabeth, The Queen", Elizabeth (Bette Davis) An hour of the hour and half long film is supported by the score, composed of rich dramatic and romantic themes. He chose not to use any period music or to approximate 16th-century musical sounds, explaining: The loves and hates of

4260-449: The score. The film , which was released in 1935, was a first for Warner Brothers studio in producing a film based on a 400-year-old work of literary art. The studio assigned almost every star or character actor under contract to take part in the film, with the filming taking over six months. The studio also allowed Korngold to devote more attention to the score than it had to any of its previous films; he could prerecord certain parts of

4331-628: The score. He also saw the film more than thirty times just to hear the score, sometimes with his eyes completely closed. Like Gone with the Wind , Kings Row concludes with the main theme hymned operatically by an unseen chorus. Kings Row was followed by seven film scores in four years – The Constant Nymph (1943), Between Two Worlds (1944), Devotion (1946), Of Human Bondage (1946), Deception (1946), Escape Me Never (1947), and Adventures of Don Juan (1948) (unused score). World War II prevented Korngold from returning to Europe. He became an American citizen in 1943 and remained in

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4402-572: The score: Korngold's score for The Sea Wolf is not only quieter but actually somber and, at times, dissonant. The opening theme captures the chaos of the wilderness in the North but soon the score seems to be enveloped in a fog (as are the characters) and everything becomes morose and haunting. The score for Kings Row (1942) has been compared to those of films like Gone with the Wind and Anthony Adverse , which also had powerful theme motifs. Those stories were based on recent best-selling novels, as

4473-401: The storage retrieval times of long-term memory and circumvent the limited capacities of short-term memory. In turn, they can encode and retrieve specific information (e.g., the intermediate answers during the calculation) in the long-term working memory more accurately and effectively. Similar strategies were found among prodigies mastering mental abacus calculation . The positions of beads on

4544-592: The two main characters, the ideas expressed by the playwright generally, while taken from history, are symbolic. It is a play of eternally true principles and motives of love and ambition, as recurrent today as three hundred years ago. The score concentrates on the regal Main Title, the triumphal entry march of Essex into London, the Queen's theme, and the recapitulation of that theme in the End Titles. The Sea Hawk

4615-565: The youth, and along with Mahler told Korngold's father there was no benefit in having his son enroll in a music conservatory since his abilities were already years ahead of what he could learn there. At age 11, he composed his ballet Der Schneemann ( The Snowman ), which became a sensation when performed at the Vienna Court Opera in 1910, including a command performance for Emperor Franz Josef . He continued composing with great success throughout his teens. At age 12, he composed

4686-414: Was Kings Row . In this score, Korngold moved even further away from his previous romantic and swashbuckler styles. This was Korngold's most Gothic film score, and a film which film historian Tony Thomas has called a "true American classic." He adds that the score "might well have been the basis for an opera or a grandly scaled symphonic poem." The story is set in a Midwestern US town (Kings Row), where

4757-526: Was Korngold's last score for swashbuckler films, all of which had starred Errol Flynn. It is widely regarded as one of Korngold's best. The film ran two hours and six minutes and was one of the longest films he ever worked on. It includes symphonic score in all but twenty minutes. It was also his tenth original score in less than six years. Of the final duel between Thorpe ( Errol Flynn ) and Wolfingham ( Henry Daniell ), MacDonald states that "Korngold's breathlessly fast-paced music helps to make this one of

4828-826: Was a professor of music at the Vienna State Academy . At the request of motion picture director Max Reinhardt , and due to the rise of the Nazi regime , Korngold moved to Hollywood in 1934 to write music for films. His first was Reinhardt's A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935). He subsequently wrote scores for such films as Captain Blood (1935), which helped boost the career of its starring newcomer, Errol Flynn . His score for Anthony Adverse (1936) won an Oscar; two years later he won another Oscar for The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938). Korngold scored 16 Hollywood films in all, and received two more nominations for Oscars. Along with Max Steiner and Alfred Newman , he

4899-508: Was an Austrian composer and conductor, who fled Europe in the mid-1930s and later adopted US nationality. A child prodigy , he became one of the most important and influential composers in Hollywood history . He was a noted pianist and composer of classical music, along with music for Hollywood films , and the first composer of international stature to write Hollywood scores. When he was 11, his ballet Der Schneemann (The Snowman) became

4970-485: Was conducting opera in Austria when he was asked by Warner Brothers to return to Hollywood and compose a score for The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland. The film, based on a largely fictional English legend, is considered the finest of its kind, with a continuous series of romantic and adventurous sequences propelled by Korngold's dynamic score. Music historian Laurence E. MacDonald notes that there were many factors which made

5041-416: Was moved by the true-life story of how Louis Napoleon , seeing America engulfed by Civil War , took advantage of that fact and attempted, in 1864, to control Mexico. He appointed Maximilian as its emperor. All of the music written at that time was strictly Viennese. The European influence was so strong in Mexico during that time that native composers, either consciously or in an unconscious effort to court

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