Biography
Erich Wolfgang Korngold was an Austrian-born composer and conductor. Born in Brno in 1897, he was a child prodigy who composed operas and concert works in Vienna before moving to the United States in 1934.
He first worked in Hollywood arranging the score for A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935). Korngold then composed the music for Captain Blood (1935), followed by scores for The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), The Sea Hawk (1940) and other Warner Bros. films. He won Academy Awards for Anthony Adverse (1936) and The Adventures of Robin Hood.
Korngold became a US citizen in 1943. After the Second World War he returned primarily to concert music until his death in Hollywood in 1957.
