Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897－1957)

 

Erich Wolfgang Korngold

埃里希·沃尔夫冈·科恩戈尔德（德语：Erich Wolfgang Korngold，1897年5月29日－1957年11月29日），犹太血统的美籍奥地利作曲家。

科恩戈尔德1897年生于奥匈帝国的布尔诺（现在属于捷克），其父是音乐评论家，4岁时随父搬到维也纳，在那里跟随有成就的音乐家学习音乐。1906年经马勒介绍从策姆林斯基学习，17岁时就写出两部歌剧。1920年他因谱写歌剧《死城》一举成名。1934年流亡美国，为好莱坞写作大量电影配乐。他为影片《侠盗罗宾汉》谱写的配乐被列入《AFI百年百大电影配乐》。

其作品为后浪漫主义风格，气魄宏大，旋律优美，配器生动，唯风格略嫌保守。后世的电影音乐作曲家约翰·威廉斯深受其影响。

Erich Wolfgang Korngold (May 29, 1897 – November 29, 1957) was an American composer of Austro-Hungarian birth.^[1][2] While his late Romantic compositional style was considered well out of vogue at the time he died, his music has more recently undergone a reevaluation and a gradual reawakening of interest.^[3] Along with such composers as Max Steiner and Alfred Newman, he is considered one of the founders of film music. Korngold's 1938 Academy Award for his score to The Adventures of Robin Hood marked the first time an Oscar was awarded to the composer rather than the head of the studio music department (as had occurred, for example, with Korngold's award-winning score to Anthony Adverse in 1936).