Bernard Herrmann (June 29, 1911 – December 24, 1975) was a composer, best known for his film scores, particularly for those directed by Alfred Hitchcock. He wrote the scores for Citizen Kane, Cape Fear and Taxi Driver as well as for the original radio broadcast of Orson Welles' The War of the Worlds. He also wrote scores for television programs in the late 1950s and early 1960s. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest film composers of all time. Bernard Herrmann - Early Life and Career< ...

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Herrmann's music is typified by frequent use of ostinati (short repeating patterns), novel orchestration and, in his film scores, an ability to portray character traits not altogether obvious from other elements of the film. In the last years of Herrmann's life he did much to create interest in film scores as a form of music worthy of appreciation and performance. He subscribed to the belief since held by many that movie music can stand on its own legs when detached from the film for which it was originally written. To this end he made several well-known recordings for Decca of arrangemen ...

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Herrmann was born in New York City. His father encouraged musical activity, taking him to the opera, and encouraging him to learn the violin. After winning a $100 composition prize at the age of thirteen, he decided to concentrate on music, and went to New York University where he studied with Percy Grainger. He also studied at the Juilliard School and, at the age of twenty, formed his own orchestra, The New Chamber Orchestra of New York. In 1934, he joined the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) as a staff conductor. Within nine years ...

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From the late 1950s to the mid-1970s, Herrmann scored a series of notable mthycially-themed fantasy films, including Journey to the Center of the Earth, , Mysterious Island, and The Three Worlds of Gulliver and the Ray Harryhausen Dynamation epics Jason & the Argonauts and The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad . During the same period, Herrmann turned his talents to writing scores for television shows. Perhaps most notably, he wrote the scores for several well-known episodes of the original "Twilight Zone" series, including the lesser k ...

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Hermann is most closely associated with the director Alfred Hitchcock. He wrote the scores for every Hitchcock film from The Trouble with Harry (1956) to Marnie (1964), a period which included Vertigo and North by Northwest. He oversaw the sound design in The Birds (1963), although there was no actual music in the film as such, just electronically created bird sounds. The music for the remake of The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) was only partly by Herrmann. The two most significant pieces of mu ...

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Herrmann is still a prominent figure in the world of film music today, despite his passing 30 years ago. As such, his career has been studied extensively by biographers and documentarians. In 1992 a documentary, Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann, was made about him. In 1991, Steven C. Smith wrote a Herrmann biography entiteled A Heart at Fire's Center, a quote from a favorite Stephen Spender poem of Herrmann's. His music continues to be used in films and recordings after his death; his score for the 1968 film Twi ...

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From the late 1950s into the 1960s, Herrmann scored a series of fantasy films, including Journey to the Center of the Earth, The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad, Jason & the Argonauts, Mysterious Island, and The Three Worlds of Gulliver. During the same period, Herrmann turned his talents to writing scores for television shows. Perhaps most notably, he wrote the scores for several well-known episodes of the original "Twilight Zone" series, including the lesser k ...

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Bernard Herrmann, Bernard Herrmann - Early Life and Career, Bernard Herrmann - Collaboration with Alfred Hitchcock, Bernard Herrmann - Other Works, Bernard Herrmann - Use of Electronic Instruments, Bernard Herrmann - Compositional Style and Philosophy, Bernard Herrmann - Legacy, Bernard Herrmann - Film scores, Bernard Herrmann - External link

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