Korngold

[ kawrn-gohld; German kawrn-gawlt ]

noun

1. E·rich Wolf·gang [er, -ik , woolf, -gang, ey, -, r, i, kh, , vawlf, -gahng], 1897–1957, Austrian composer, conductor, and pianist in the U.S.

Example Sentences

This fall, the Calidore returns to Colburn to survey a hometown composer, the Hollywood film-score icon Erich Wolfgang Korngold, playing his little-known three string quartets in the first program, in Zipper Hall.

From Los Angeles Times

The orchestra was preparing to release a recording, made on the Fox scoring stage, of a new concerto by Oscar winner Kris Bowers — part of an ambitious “Korngold Project” of three new concertos by composers who straddled Hollywood and classical.

From Los Angeles Times

In the middle of Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s suite of incidental music for “Much Ado About Nothing,” there’s a march meant to accompany Dogberry, Shakespeare’s comic constable, and his fellow watchmen.

From New York Times

Other emigres were of the same generation and background, like Erich Wolfgang Korngold, who created the orchestra soundtrack at the dawn of talkies.

From Los Angeles Times

After giving Korngold’s only symphony a rare outing at Carnegie in 2022, they’ll play his better known Violin Concerto with Hilary Hahn, as well as Rachmaninoff’s brooding “Isle of the Dead,” Dvorak’s Seventh Symphony and, for Bruckner’s 200th birthday, his grandly sprawling Fifth, a rare foray into his music for Petrenko.

From New York Times