Mark D Lew wrote:
On May 27, 2010, at 12:06 PM, Ray Horton wrote:
I agree. I remember a music history teacher saying that Schoenberg
taught film composers in LA, but I never came across names. I
believe that Korngold and Waxman were students of his, but earlier,
in Europe.
I think you're confusing diiferent Vienna schools.
Korngold studied with Zemlinksy, and he also crossed paths with Mahler
and R Strauss. Max Steiner was very close to Strauss. There's
definitely a strong connection between the community of opera
composers in Vienna and the community of film composers in California
some time around the 1930s, but I don't think Schönberg was part of it.
Schönberg did later teach in California, but I don't think his
students (eg, Cage, Harrison) were connected with Hollywood.
It's a simplification, of course, but I tend to think of early film
composers in two groups: the Viennese group, and the group centered
around Castelnuovo-Tedesco.
mdl
OK. I got the Korngold and Waxman from some non-trustworthy internet
source (imagine that!) and the music lit teacher was an inspiring type
but wasn't always clean with his facts. I was trying to give support
for D. Fenton's thesis with muddy facts in my muddy head.
The older I get, the more I appreciate good film music, esp. from the
50s, some 60s.
RBH
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