Composer Movies

  • 2017
    Samuel Barber: Absolute Beauty

    Samuel Barber: Absolute Beauty

    Samuel Barber: Absolute Beauty

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    Known for his mournful "Adagio for Strings," Samuel Barber was never quite fashionable. This acclaimed film is a probing exploration of his music and...

    Samuel Barber: Absolute Beauty
  • 2008
    Frank Zappa - Live in Paris 1980

    Frank Zappa - Live in Paris 1980

    Frank Zappa - Live in Paris 1980

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    Recorded Live in Paris in 1980, this is a rare recording of Frank Zappa performing at the peak of his career with his incredible backing band,...

    Frank Zappa - Live in Paris 1980
  • 1980
    Frank Zappa: New York and Elsewhere

    Frank Zappa: New York and Elsewhere

    Frank Zappa: New York and Elsewhere

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    Frank Zappa: New York & Elsewhere is an Austrian released TV documentary directed in 1980 by Rudi Dolezal and Hannes Rossacher, aka DoRo productions,...

    Frank Zappa: New York and Elsewhere
  • 2008
    33 Scenes from Life

    33 Scenes from Life

    33 Scenes from Life

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    The Polish artist Julia and her husband Piotr, a talented and successful composer, live in Kraków. When Julias's mother, Barbara falls ill...

    33 Scenes from Life
  • 1990
    Countess Dora

    Countess Dora

    Countess Dora

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    A pseudo biography of Dora Pejačević (10 September 1885 - 5 March 1923), a Croatian composer.

    Countess Dora
  • 1994
    An American Dissident: un tributo a Frank Zappa

    An American Dissident: un tributo a Frank Zappa

    An American Dissident: un tributo a Frank Zappa

    01994HD

    An American Dissident: un tributo a Frank Zappa is an Italian documentary that aired on the Videomusic channel on January 7, 1994. It includes...

    An American Dissident: un tributo a Frank Zappa
  • 2022
    Currentzis conducts Beethoven Symphony No. 9

    Currentzis conducts Beethoven Symphony No. 9

    Currentzis conducts Beethoven Symphony No. 9

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    Ludwig van Beethoven headed for Symphony No. 9 literally his entire life. As early as the 1790s, he had an eye on Ode to Joy, perhaps the most...

    Currentzis conducts Beethoven Symphony No. 9
  • 1939
    Mendelssohn's Wedding March

    Mendelssohn's Wedding March

    Mendelssohn's Wedding March

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

    Mendelssohn's Wedding March
  • 1951
    Kesäillan valssi

    Kesäillan valssi

    Kesäillan valssi

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    A story built around the music of Oskar Merikanto, tells the love story of the poor musician Lauri Alanko and the daughter of the rich Grahn family...

    Kesäillan valssi
  • 1989
    Anthony's Crime

    Anthony's Crime

    Anthony's Crime

    3.51989HD

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

    Anthony's Crime
  • 2003
    Cole Porter in Hollywood: Begin the Beguine

    Cole Porter in Hollywood: Begin the Beguine

    Cole Porter in Hollywood: Begin the Beguine

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    An overview of Cole Porter’s musical contributions to the film Broadway Melody of 1940.

    Cole Porter in Hollywood: Begin the Beguine
  • 1992
    The Yellow Shark

    The Yellow Shark

    The Yellow Shark

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    This live recording was culled from seven September 1992 concerts given in Vienna, Berlin, and Frankfurt by the Ensemble Modern, a Frankfurt-based...

    The Yellow Shark
  • 1998
    The Kindness of Strangers

    The Kindness of Strangers

    The Kindness of Strangers

    01998HD

    The life of composer, conductor, pianist and Oscar-winner Andre Previn, filmed during a year which culminated in the world premiere of his first...

    The Kindness of Strangers
  • 1970
    Attic

    Attic

    Attic

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    A loving mother who has lost her family because of her alcoholism, tries her hardest to make things right as she is slowly consumed by her very own...

    Attic
  • 2003
    Nevěrné hry

    Nevěrné hry

    Nevěrné hry

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    Nevěrné hry
  • 2014
    Santini's Network

    Santini's Network

    Santini's Network

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    Santini's Network is a biographical film by German filmmaker Georg Brintrup on the life of Roman music collector Fortunato Santini and how his famous...

    Santini's Network
  • 2019
    The First Motion of the Immovable

    The First Motion of the Immovable

    The First Motion of the Immovable

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    It all begins with a childhood memory: that day when the father of the future filmmaker Sebastiano d'Ayala Valva forces him to listen to certain...

    The First Motion of the Immovable
  • 2005
    Philip Glass: Looking Glass

    Philip Glass: Looking Glass

    Philip Glass: Looking Glass

    02005HD

    This documentary captures the overflowing energy and activity of one today's greatest composers, Philip Glass, and allows us to follow him from New...

    Philip Glass: Looking Glass
  • 2008
    The Passions of Vaughan Williams

    The Passions of Vaughan Williams

    The Passions of Vaughan Williams

    02008HD

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

    The Passions of Vaughan Williams
  • 2022
    V. Silvestrov

    V. Silvestrov

    V. Silvestrov

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    There is a rumor in the Kyiv musical community: once upon a time, in private conversation, Queen Elizabeth II mentioned Valentyn Silvestrov as one of...

    V. Silvestrov