Bernard Herrmann

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American composer and conductor (1911-1975)

United States MusiciansLived 1911 to 1975 · aged 64

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Bernard Herrmann 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. " As a conductor, he championed the music of lesser-known composers.

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Herrmann conducts the CBS Radio orchestra at a rehearsal of The Mercury Theatre on the Air directed by Orson Welles (1938)

Herrmann conducting the London Symphony Orchestra in a scene from The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)

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1942Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic Score

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Arts and Letters Award in Music

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David KellyAlso in The Wrong Man (1956)

Leo GordonAlso in The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)

Nehemiah PersoffAlso in The Wrong Man (1956)

Hillary BrookeAlso in The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)

Carolyn JonesAlso in The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)

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Bernard Herrmann 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.

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