Composer Movies

A feature film about Benjamin Britten, released as part of the 100 year celebrations of his birth. Britten is the most performed British composer...

Frank Zappa: New York & Elsewhere is an Austrian released TV documentary directed in 1980 by Rudi Dolezal and Hannes Rossacher, aka DoRo productions,...

Known for his mournful "Adagio for Strings," Samuel Barber was never quite fashionable. This acclaimed film is a probing exploration of his music and...

A profile of composing team John Kander and Fred Ebb, who have written many Broadway musicals. Highlights include interviews with Lauren Bacall, Joel...

A penniless composer marries a young widow with a baby—even though he is in love with his brother's fiancée.

Like the play from which it derived, the film tells of the early struggles of composer Edvard Grieg and his attempts to develop an authentic...

Anne Boyd, one of Australia's leading contemporary composers, teaches music at the publicly funded University of Sydney. This documentary chronicles...

A successful songwriter, dazzled by high society, falls for a society girl who is just playing around.

This short film provides a fanciful account of how Felix Mendelssohn came to compose "The Wedding March".

Halloween, New York City, 1981 Live at The Palladium with Ray White, Steve Vai, Bobby Martin, Tommy Mars, Ed Mann, Scott Thunes, Chad Wackerman

Ricardo Alfaro is a popular composer and singer who has failed in life because of alcohol. However, things change when he meets Teresa Montes, a...

A composer goes to Devil's Island for killing his wife's lover, then writes an opera about it.

The documentary examines Frank Zappa and his music through archive footage, including unique video excerpts from Austrian television archives...

A middle aged composer returns to Vienna after ten years in America, falls in love with a Japanese student and writes his last opera for her.

Ivan Ivanović, a party functionary, arrives in a provincial town as a temporary replacement for a cultural official. The newcomer is fanatically...

Fifty years after his death, this musical and psychological portrait of Ralph Vaughan Williams explores the passions that drove a giant of...

A documentary by Tony Palmer on English composer Sir William Walton (1902–1983), made shortly before his death. The film includes the only...

Ukrainian composer Mykola Lysenko goes for a walk in Kyiv. Along the way, his memory takes him back in time: first to his childhood in the village of...

Bio-pic about Czech composer Antonin Dvoraák at the height of his career. Dvorák learns that his love and lifelong muse is ill and must...

One of the first US born conductors to receive worldwide fame, Leonard Bernstein is an exceptional composer and certainly not only due to The West...