Composer Movies

A woman in Canada abused by her aunt falls in love with a foreign composer looking for inspiration, who comes to find it in her and the star-crossed...

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

His filmmaker son probes the professional and private lives of his remote but fascinating father: bandleader, composer, inventor, and electronic...

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

Blue for a Moment is a documentary portrait of Swedish-born, Berlin-based musician Sven-Åke Johansson, a key figure in European improvised and...

A documentary by Tony Palmer on English composer Sir William Walton (1902–1983), made shortly before his death. The film includes the only...

Newly arrived in the nineteenth century court of Emperor Francis 1st of Austria Countess Valerie happens to overhear a young pianist and advises him...

A musical based on the life and music of Johann Strauss, Jr.

This 56-minute documentary on America's most controversial and unique composer manages to cover a great many aspects of Cage's work and thought. His...

‘La course à l’abîme’ is a depiction of the final ride into hell from ‘La Damnation de Faust’ (1846) by...

Saint Petersburg, 1858. A group of composers known as The Five meet at Balakirev's. Young Modest Mussorgsky, both a civil servant and a musician, has...

Beethoven's Hair traces the unlikely journey of a lock of hair cut from Beethoven's corpse and unravels the mystery of his tortured life and death....

One of the first US born conductors to receive worldwide fame, Leonard Bernstein is an exceptional composer and certainly not only due to The West...

A vacationing journalist investigates the mysterious death of a composer and debunks the theory that it was suicide.

A composer and his daughter emigrate to America in the hope that he can sell his symphony. But he meets with little success and begins to give up...

A composer goes to Devil's Island for killing his wife's lover, then writes an opera about it.

The lives of a composer and his wife, who live on a chicken farm, are thrown into turmoil when a femme fatale joins their household.