Composer Movies

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

Documentary about the life of the great pianist and composer Chopin and the story of the women whose voices inspired his music. It is undeniable that...

Imperfect Harmony is a film about musical control, explored through a clash between two maestros: avant-garde rebel and Holland’s best-known...

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

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

Pauline Oliveros isn’t just one of the most influential 20th century composers , she’s literally changed the way many people hear and...

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...

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

Raimonds Pauls is almost 85 years old, rehearses almost every day and performs at least once a week. What drives him? Not only he is the most popular...

Filmed in Austria for the hundredth anniversary of Beethoven's death, this 1927 silent film tells the story of the German genius' eventful emotional...

Anne Boyd, one of Australia's leading contemporary composers, teaches music at the publicly funded University of Sydney. This documentary chronicles...

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

Beautiful tribute to the composer Elton Medeiros. Together with his last partner Vidal Assis, he sings, tells stories and moves.

The myths of Orpheus and Charon are interwoven with the entirely sung story of four friends dining in an Italian bistro who are fated to perish the...

A prolific composer and one of the most celebrated poets in Brazilian music, Paulo César Pinheiro is the author of Canto das Três...

The composer's work, in black and white, disturbed by an elephant... and the melody, creating colours and unusual, fanciful shapes. In 1984, Pavel...

A documentary about one of the most influential Latvian composers, Tālivaldis Ķeniņš, who lives in Canada.