Joseph Carl Breil
American lyric tenor, stage director, composer and conductor (1870-1926) · United States · On the map · Musicians · Died at 55
Joseph Carl Breil was an American lyric tenor, stage director, composer and conductor. He was one of the earliest American composers to compose specific music for motion pictures. His first film was Les amours de la reine Élisabeth (1912) starring Sarah Bernhardt.
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Lillian Gish Joseph wrote The Birth of a Nation (1915)
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Carol Dempster Joseph wrote Intolerance and America
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Miriam Cooper Joseph wrote The Birth of a Nation (1915)
Ralph Lewis Joseph wrote The Birth of a Nation (1915)
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Neil Hamilton Joseph wrote America and The White Rose
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He later composed and arranged scores for several other early motion pictures, including such epics as D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation (1915) and Intolerance (1916), as well as scoring the preview version of The Phantom of the Opera (1925), a score that is now lost. His love theme for "Birth of a Nation", titled "The Perfect Song", was published by Chappell & Co. in an arrangement for voice and keyboard. It was later used as the theme for the radio show Amos 'n' Andy.
