George Korngold (December 17, 1928 – November 25, 1987) was a prominent Austrian-born American record producer as well as a music editor and producer active within the film industry. He was the younger son of Austrian composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold.
Korngold was born in Vienna, Austria in 1928. His father first went to Hollywood in 1934 to work on the Max Reinhardt production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, and travelled to and from Vienna for the next several years. During this time, George remained in Vienna: it was not until February 1938 that George arrived in the United States with his parents for the scoring of Robin Hood, and after the Anschluss in March and the emergency arrival of his older brother Ernst with his grandparents the family permanently remained in Los Angeles.
Reports that Korngold attended the Vienna Academy of Music are thus mysterious: at the time he left Vienna, he was not yet ten years old. However, since Erich Korngold taught at the Academy throughout the early 1930s, it is thought possible that the young boy was permitted to be present in classes.
As a record producer, Korngold was much involved with film music, in the 1970s co-producing (with Charles Gerhardt) the 14-volume Classic Film Scores Series for RCA Records. He also produced a series of 'landmark' recordings of his father's works, including the operas Die tote Stadt (for RCA) and Violanta (for CBS) and a disc of the First and Third String Quartets (for RCA; played by the Chilingirian Quartet). In 1979, he produced one of the first digital audio recordings, for Chalfont Records; it was the first commercial release of his father's music for Kings Row, Charles Gerhardt conducting.
In Hollywood, Korngold worked as a music editor on a number of high-profile films, including the big-budget The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964), Fedora (1978), The Fury (1978) and Outland (1981).
GeorgeKorngold (December 17, 1928 – November 25, 1987) was a prominent Austrian-born American record producer as well as a music editor and producer...
Erich Wolfgang Korngold (German: [ˈeːʁɪç ˈvɔlfɡaŋ ˈkɔʁnɡɔlt]; May 29, 1897 – November 29, 1957) was an Austrian composer and conductor, who adopted US...
Julius Leopold Korngold (24 December 1860 – 25 September 1945) was an Austrian music critic. He was the leading critic in early twentieth century Vienna...
music for films, along with composers Dimitri Tiomkin, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Franz Waxman, Alfred Newman, Bernard Herrmann, and Miklós Rózsa. Steiner...
name by Henry Bellamann. The musical score was composed by Erich Wolfgang Korngold, and the cinematographer was James Wong Howe. The supporting cast features...
a motion picture music editor (GeorgeKorngold, also a record producer and son of film composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold), film historians (Rudy Behlmer...
recorded all three of Tchaikovsky's ballets for Decca. With producer GeorgeKorngold, Gerhardt made a series of stereo recordings of Hollywood film music...
Cherche Midi, 2008, 377p, ISBN 978-2-7491-1350-0 Schama 1989, pp. 842–44. Korngold, Ralph 1941, p. 365, Robespierre and the Fourth Estate Archived 18 March...
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by Erich Wolfgang Korngold set to a libretto by Paul Schott, a collective pseudonym for the composer and his father, Julius Korngold. It is based on the...
prompting action. Bruges-la-Morte was used by the composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold as the basis for his opera Die tote Stadt. Albrecht Rodenbach, his cousin...
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by Richard Strauss drew approbation from the formidable critic Julius Korngold. The most colorful of his ventures abroad, however, was his first visit...
(aged 41) Zoltán Korda (1895–1961), director (aged 66) Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897–1957), composer (aged 60) Kathleen Kirkham (1895–1961), actress (aged...
Cavens, Jean Heremans, Ralph Faulkner, and Bob Anderson. Erich Wolfgang Korngold won the 1938 Academy Award for his score to The Adventures of Robin Hood...
(1942), Erich Korngold (1943), Roger Quilter, and Jean Sibelius (in a Swedish translation Kom nu hit in 1957). In 1943, Erich Korngold also set the songs...
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