Composer Movies

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

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...

The romantic story of Franz Schubert 's fight for recognition of his music. The 1941 Reinhold Schunzel biographical musical composer melodrama.

A musician beds down a prostitute he knows is diseased in order to gain inspiration, an act he later believes to have been a tacit pact with Satan

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

The life and loves of composer Stephen Foster, from his early success through his decline, degradation, and death from alcoholism.

Neil McRae, an impoverished composer, loves Cynthia Mason, but, fearing poverty, proposes to wealthy Gladys Cady. Can he compose himself and find the...

Documentary about Canadian composer John Wyre.

The Wonder Commission is a new music commission of The Well, composed by Dr. Brian Raphael Nabors and performed by the Antigone Music Collective....

As the waters of the river Seine overflow their banks and surround a Parisian café, composer Erik Satie nurtures bittersweet memories of his...

CAM Sugar & Decca Records present "CELEBRATING ENNIO MORRICONE: THE SECRETS BEHIND HIS GENIUS", featuring tracks from the new album Morricone...

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

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

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.

A woman in Canada abused by her aunt falls in love with a foreign composer looking for inspiration, who comes to find it in her and the star-crossed...

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

Johann Strauss, Jr., a would-be composer of waltzes in mid-19th Century Vienna, attempts to thwart his father's efforts to prevent his success when...