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ALBUMEndless Night (Music from the Motion Picture)Bernard Herrmann
Albums by Bernard Herrmann
ALBUMEndless Night (Music from the Motion Picture)Bernard Herrmann
ALBUMA Christmas Carol / A Child is Born (Original Soundtrack Recordings)Bernard Herrmann
ALBUMMarnie (Complete Original Score)Bernard Herrmann
ALBUMNorth By Northwest (Original Motion Picture Score)Bernard Herrmann
ALBUMAnna and the King of Siam (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), Vol. 3Bernard Herrmann
ALBUMMarnie (Original Motion Picture Score)Bernard Herrmann, Joel McNeely & Royal Scottish National Orchestra
ALBUMBernard Herrmann: The Twilight Zone Conducted By Joel McNeely (Music From Television Series)Bernard Herrmann & Joel McNeely
ALBUMBernard Herrmann At Fox, Vol. 1 (Original Motion Picture Soundtracks)Bernard Herrmann
ALBUMBernard Herrmann At Fox, Vol. 2 (Original Motion Picture Soundtracks)Bernard Herrmann
ALBUMCitizen Kane (Music From the Motion Picture)Bernard Herrmann, Royal Scottish National Orchestra & Joel McNeely
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Bernard Herrmann Essentials
A legendary composer wrote for the greats, from Welles to Scorsese.
Artist Biography
The name Bernard Herrmann is synonymous with film music. Few moments are as iconic and revolutionary as the Bates Motel shower murder in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho; Herrmann’s shrieking violins are inextricable from the frenzied effect of the scene. Known as a soundtrack innovator who scored some 50 movies, Herrmann nevertheless rejected the title of film composer, styling himself instead as a neo-Romantic. Born in 1911 in New York, he grew up playing his father’s gramophone and attending concerts at Carnegie Hall. In 1934, CBS Radio hired Herrmann as a composer, arranger, and conductor. One of the radio shows he scored was The Mercury Theatre on the Air, and when its maverick director, Orson Welles, embarked on a film career, he enlisted Herrmann as composer. Years after working on Welles' Citizen Kane, Herrmann was recruited by Hitchcock to score The Trouble with Harry, giving rise to one of the great director–composer partnerships, highlighted by Vertigo and North by Northwest. Although the scores overshadow Herrmann’s music for the concert hall and the stage, his lush 1951 opera, Wuthering Heights, with self-standing arias like “I Have Dreamt,” is worth exploring. Herrmann died in 1975, a day after completing the score for Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver.
Hometown
New York, NY, United States
Genre
Soundtrack