Composer Movies

Pages of the life of the Ukrainian composer, folklorist Mykola Vitaliyovych Lysenko (1842-1912),the founder of the national school of composers. His...

"A soundscape is any collection of sounds, almost like a painting is a collection of visual attractions," says composer R. Murray Schafer. "When you l...

Interview with the italian composer Claudio Gizzi about his lifetime and work as part or the extras of the Blu-Ray edition from What? (Che?) (1972) fr...

A composer and his daughter emigrate to America in the hope that he can sell his symphony. But he meets with little success and begins to give up hope...

Frank Scheffer's (collage like) documentary on the American composer and rock guitarist Frank Zappa, as broadcast by VPRO in the Netherlands April 22,...

An obsessive composing student alone in his apartment takes on more than he can handle when a night terror turns nightmare come true.

A portrait of one of England's greatest composers. Winner of the Prix Italia.

This 56-minute documentary on America's most controversial and unique composer manages to cover a great many aspects of Cage's work and thought. His l...

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

Leonard Bernstein discusses his Boston childhood, his musical growth at Harvard and the Curtis Institute and the influence of great masters like Reine...

It all begins with a childhood memory: that day when the father of the future filmmaker Sebastiano d'Ayala Valva forces him to listen to certain music...

This live recording was culled from seven September 1992 concerts given in Vienna, Berlin, and Frankfurt by the Ensemble Modern, a Frankfurt-based cha...

This biographical film of Czech composer Martinu is in two parts: the first part is a recurring dream; the second, a Freudian analysis of the dream.

Beethoven's Hair traces the unlikely journey of a lock of hair cut from Beethoven's corpse and unravels the mystery of his tortured life and death. Th...

This documentary captures the overflowing energy and activity of one today's greatest composers, Philip Glass, and allows us to follow him from New Yo...

Esther, a film composer going through a dry spell, moves in with her boyfriend Michael only to find out that he still keeps his Ex-girlfriend's belong...

An overview of Cole Porter’s musical contributions to the film Broadway Melody of 1940.