Bernard Herrmann
American composer and conductor (1911-1975) · United States · On the map · Musicians · Died at 64
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.
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Alfred Hitchcock Bernard wrote Psycho and Vertigo
Orson Welles Bernard wrote Citizen Kane (1946)
Charles Ives Influenced Bernard
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Percy Grainger Influenced Bernard
Gregory Peck Bernard wrote Cape Fear (1962)
James Mason Bernard wrote North by Northwest (1959)
Agnes Moorehead Bernard wrote Citizen Kane (1946)
Ray Collins Bernard wrote Citizen Kane (1946)
Michael Rennie Bernard wrote 5 Fingers (1952)
Henry Daniell Bernard wrote The Egyptian and Jane Eyre
Bess Flowers Bernard wrote Vertigo and North by Northwest
Alan Napier Bernard wrote Marnie (1964)
Edith Evanson Bernard wrote Marnie (1964)
James Stewart Bernard wrote Vertigo (1959)
Joan Fontaine Bernard wrote Jane Eyre and Tender Is the Night
John Carradine Bernard wrote The Egyptian and The Kentuckian
Martin Balsam Bernard wrote Psycho and Cape Fear
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Hillary Brooke Bernard wrote The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
Erskine Sanford Bernard wrote Citizen Kane (1946)
Edmund Cobb Bernard wrote The Egyptian and Prince of Players- Les Reed Duets: Les Bicyclettes De Belsize / Twisted Nerve (1969)
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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.
