- Herbert Windt
Herbert Windt (
15 September 1894 ,Senftenberg, Germany —2 November 1965 ,Deisenhofen, Germany ) was a German composer who became one of the most significantfilm score composers of theThird Reich . He was best known for his collaborations with the directorLeni Riefenstahl on films such as "Triumph of the Will ".Biography
A student of
Franz Schreker , Windt became one of the most significantfilm score composers of theThird Reich along withWolfgang Zeller ,Michael Jary ,Franz Grothe , andGeorg Haentzschel . He was best known for his collaborations withLeni Riefenstahl , the director of "Triumph of the Will " (1934/35), "Olympia" (1938), and "Tiefland " (1945/54), but he also worked with directors likeWolfgang Liebeneiner ("Die Entlassung "),Georg Wilhelm Papst ("Paracelsus"),Frank Wisbar ("Die Unbekannte ", "Fährmann Maria ", "Hunde, wollt ihr ewig leben? "), andGustav Ucicky ("Morgenrot").Windt's film scores for
propaganda film s drew the attention of thesociologist Siegfried Kracauer , who analysed the composer's works in the tracts ' and '.Works
Cantata * "Andante religioso, eine Kammersinfonie nach sechs Sonatten" (Wien: Universal-Edition, 1942)
Opera
* "Andromache" (1932 premiere in
Berlin )Film scores
* "Morgenrot" (1933)
* "Flüchtlinge " (1933)
* "Der Sieg des Glaubens " (1933)
* "Triumph des Willens" (1934/35)
* "Die Unbekannte " (1936)
* "Fährmann Maria " (1936)
* "Olympia" (1938)
* "Pour le Mérite" (1938)
* "Friedrich Schiller - Triumph eines Genies " (1940)
* "Feldzug in Polen " (1940)
* "Sieg im Westen " (1941)
* "Die Entlassung " (1942)
* "G.P.U. " (1942)
* "Paracelsus" (1943)
* "Besatzung Dora " (1943)
* "Die Degenhardts " (1944)
* "Tiefland" (1954)
* "Hunde, wollt ihr ewig leben? " (1958)
* "Im Namen einer Mutter " (1960)Bibliography
* Volker, Reimar. "Von oben sehr erwunscht" : die Filmmusik Herbert Windts im NS-Propagandafilm". Trier: WVT, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2003.
* Walter, Michael. "Die Musik des Olympiafilms von 1938". "Acta Musicologica" 62, no. 1 (Jan-Apr 1990): 82-113 .External links
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