Bernard Herrmann facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Bernard Herrmann
Bernard Herrmann in 1970
Born	Max Herman (1911-06-29)June 29, 1911 New York City, U.S.
Died	December 24, 1975(1975-12-24) (aged 64) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Cause of death	Heart failure
Resting place	Beth David Cemetery Elmont, New York, U.S.
Other names	Bernard Maximillian Herrmann
Occupation	Composer, conductor
Years active	1941–1975
Spouse(s)	Lucille Fletcher ​ ​ (m. 1939; div. 1948)​ Lucy Anderson ​ ​ (m. 1949; div. 1964)​ Norma Shepherd ​ (m. 1967)​
Children	2
Awards	1941 Academy Award for Music Score of a Dramatic Picture, The Devil and Daniel Webster a.k.a. All That Money Can Buy 1976 BAFTA Award for Best Film Music, Taxi Driver

Bernard Herrmann (June 29, 1911 – December 24, 1975) was an American composer known for writing music for movies.

He won the Academy Award for the movie The Devil and Daniel Webster made in 1941. Herrmann often worked with director Alfred Hitchcock, including Psycho, North by Northwest, The Man Who Knew Too Much, and Vertigo. He also wrote music for many other movies, including Citizen Kane, Cape Fear and Taxi Driver. He also wrote music for radio drama including works for Orson Welles. He wrote for several fantasy movies by Ray Harryhausen, and many television programs.

Movie scores

Note: This is by the date of release, not when they were written

Radio scores

Melodramas

These works are for a speaker and a full orchestra. These were written to be played over the radio because a human voice would not be able to be heard over the full volume of an orchestra. The 1935 works were written before June 1935.

• La Belle Dame Sans Merci (September 1934)
• The City of Brass (December 1934)
• Annabel Lee (1934-1935)
• Poem Cycle (1935):
  • The Willow Leaf
  • Weep No More, Sad Fountains
  • Something Tells
• A Shropshire Lad (1935)
• Cynara (1935)

Music for radio shows and dramas

• Palmolive Beauty Box (1935?) (2 existing cues)
• Dauber (October 1936)
• Rhythm of the Jute Mill (December 1936)
• Gods of the Mountain (1937)
• Brave New World (1956)

Concert works

• The Forest: Tone poem for Large Orchestra (1929)
• November Dusk: Tone Poem for Large Orchestra (1929)
• Tempest and Storm: Furies Shrieking!: for Piano (1929)
• The Dancing Faun and The Bells: Two Songs for Medium Voice and Small Chamber Orchestra (1929)
• Requiescat: Violin and Piano (1929)
• Twilight: Violin and Piano (1929)
• March Militaire (1932), ballet music for Americana Revue (1932)
• Aria for Flute and Harp (1932)
• Variations on "Deep River" and "Water Boy" (1933)
• Prelude to Anathema: for Fifteen Instruments (1933)
• Silent Noon: for Fourteen Instruments (1933)
• The Body Beautiful (1935), music from the Broadway play
• Nocturne and Scherzo (1935)
• Sinfonietta for Strings (1935)
• Currier and Ives Suite (1935)
• Violin Concerto: Unfinished (1937)
• Moby Dick: Cantata (1937)
• Johnny Appleseed: Unfinished Cantata (1940)
• Symphony (1941)
• The Fantasticks (1942)
• The Devil and Daniel Webster Suite (1942)
• For the Fallen (1943)
• Welles Raises Kane (1943)
• Wuthering Heights: Opera (1951)
• Echoes: String Quartet (1965)
• Souvenirs de Voyage (1967)
• The King of Schnorrers (1968) Musical comedy

Related pages

• Columbia Workshop - a radio series for which Herrmann was music director and wrote music for many episodes.
• High Anxiety— a comedy that makes fun of many Hitchcock movies and Herrmann's music.
• Hitchcock & Herrmann— a stage play about the relationship between Herrmann and Alfred Hitchcock.

Images for kids

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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)

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

See also

In Spanish: Bernard Herrmann para niños