Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897－1957)

 

Erich Wolfgang Korngold

埃裏希·沃爾夫岡·科恩戈爾德（德語：Erich Wolfgang Korngold，1897年5月29日－1957年11月29日），猶太血統的美籍奧地利作曲家。

科恩戈爾德1897年生於奧匈帝國的布爾諾（現在屬於捷克），其父是音樂評論家，4歲時隨父搬到維也納，在那裏跟隨有成就的音樂家學習音樂。1906年經馬勒介紹從策姆林斯基學習，17歲時就寫出兩部歌劇。1920年他因譜寫歌劇《死城》一舉成名。1934年流亡美國，為好萊塢寫作大量電影配樂。他為影片《俠盜羅賓漢》譜寫的配樂被列入《AFI百年百大電影配樂》。

其作品為後浪漫主義風格，氣魄宏大，旋律優美，配器生動，唯風格略嫌保守。後世的電影音樂作曲家約翰·威廉斯深受其影響。

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).