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Bernard Herrmann

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Also known as Max Herman

American composer and conductor (1911-1975)

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Born
1911
Died
1975
Works
5

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  • The story and music from The three worlds of Gulliver
  • Wuthering Heights

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Bernard Herrmann (born Max Herman; June 29, 1911 – December 24, 1975) was an American composer best known for his work in composing for motion pictures. As a conductor, he championed the music of lesser-known composers. An Academy Award-winner (for The Devil and Daniel Webster, 1941; later renamed All That Money Can Buy), Herrmann is particularly known for his collaborations with director Alfred Hitchcock, most famously Psycho, North by Northwest, The Man Who Knew Too Much, and Vertigo. <a href

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Born
Maximillian Herman , ( 1911-06-29 ) June 29, 1911, New York City, U.S.
Died
December 24, 1975 (1975-12-24) (aged 64), Los Angeles , California, U.S.
Resting place
Beth David Cemetery
Other name
Bernard Maximillian Herrmann
Education
Juilliard School New York University
Occupations
Composer conductor
Years active
1934–1975
Known for
Golden Age Film Composer
Spouses
Lucille Fletcher ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. October 2, 1939</span>"}]]}'>1939 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1948 ) ​ Lucy Anderson ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1949 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1964 ) ​ Norma Shepherd ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. November 27, 1967</span>"}]]}'>1967 ) ​
Awards
1941 Academy Award for, Music Score of a Dramatic Picture , The Devil and Daniel Webster a.k.a. All That Money Can Buy , 1976 BAFTA Award for, Best Film Music , Taxi Driver
Website
thebernardherrmannestate .com

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Height
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Number of children
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date of birth
1911-06-29
date of death
1975-12-24
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Bernard Herrmann
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end of work period
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Bernard Herrmann (born Maximillian Herman; June 29, 1911 – December 24, 1975) was an American composer and conductor best known for his work in film scoring. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest film composers of all time. Alex Ross writes that "Over four decades, he revolutionized movie scoring by abandoning the illustrative musical techniques that dominated Hollywood in the 1930s and imposing his own peculiar harmonic and rhythmic vocabulary." As a conductor, he championed the music of lesser-known composers.

As a young man, Herrmann was the chief conductor of the CBS Symphony Orchestra, which led him to become the composer for Orson Welles's radio series The Mercury Theatre on the Air. This led him to write his first film score, for Welles's directorial debut Citizen Kane (1941). That year, he won the Academy Award for Best Original Score for The Devil and Daniel Webster. He worked with Welles again on The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) and Jane Eyre (1943). He is best known for his work with Alfred Hitchcock, with whom he worked on nine films including The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) (where he makes a cameo as the conductor at Royal Albert Hall), Vertigo (1958), North by Northwest (1959), Psycho (1960), The Birds (1963) (as "sound consultant"), and Marnie (1964).

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