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Much Ado About Nothing (1920) incidental music to the Shakespeare production at the Palace of Schönbrunn that premiered May 20, 1920. Korngold later reworked this music into an orchestral suite Op. 11.
In 2022, Naxos released Korngold's complete incidental music, which consists of music written for a 1920 Vienna production of Much Ado About Nothing, and for Hans Müller-Einigen's play Der Vampyr, oder Die Gejagten (The Vampire, or the Hunted).
Jun 21, 2022 · It drew music of precocious maturity from the young composer. Korngold’s response to a tale of grief, haunting and obsession tempers his exquisite sensuousness with longing, menace and dread.
Apr 21, 2022 · Here they have survived intact, despite being all but banished from contemporary music in concert halls. Korngold died of a brain haemorrhage in 1957 aged 60, believing himself forgotten. Yet in recent years, his music has experienced an extraordinary rehabilitation.
In 1934 Korngold traveled to the United States to arrange music for the film A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1935), using Felix Mendelssohn’s incidental music for Shakespeare’s play.
- Betsy Schwarm
Erich Korngold was what you might call an early adopter. As a child prodigy in Habsburg Vienna, he’d astonished the world: a schoolboy composing orchestral scores that made Elektra sound tame.
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I return to the BBC Philharmonic and Matthias Bamert for excellent performances of some of Korngold's early orchestral works, including the Schauspiel Overture, Märchenbilder (originally for piano but orchestrated by Korngold when he was just thirteen), and Der Schneemann (The Snowman), another piano piece by the 11-year old Korngold ...
