Stephen Foster ♪ John Philip Sousa ♪ Paul Dresser ♪ Victor Herbert ♪ W.C. Handy ♪ George M. Cohan ♪ Jerome Kern ♪ Gus Kahn ♪ Sigmund Romberg ♪ Irving Berlin ♪ Richard Rodgers ♪ Cole Porter ♪ George Gershwin
Lully (b. 1632)
Marais (b. 1656)
Purcell (b. 1658)
Vivaldi (b. 1678)
Handel (b. 1685)
Bach (b. 1685)
Mozart (b. 1756)
Le Roi Danse (2000)
Tous les Matins du Monde (1991) [★★★★★]
England, My England (1995) [★★]
Antonio Vivaldi, un prince à Venise (2006) [French only]
Vivaldi (was to appear in 2013, but never did)
The Great Mr. Handel (1942)
A Cry of Angels (1963)
Handel: Honour, Profit and Pleasure (1983)
Farinelli (1985)
[★★★★]
God Rot Tunbridge Wells (1985)
Handel's Last Chance (1996)
[★★★★]
Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (1968) [★★★]
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Johann Sebastian Bach (1985) [German only]
Bach's Fight for Freedom (1995)
Mr. Bach Comes to Call (2007) [★★★]
Amadeus (1984)
[★★★★★]
Mozart's Sister (2012)
[★★★★]
Beethoven (b. 1770)
Paganini (b. 1782)
Rossini (b. 1792)
Schubert (b. 1797)
Un Grand Amour de Beethoven (1938)
Eroica (1949)
The Magnificent Rebel (1961)
Beethoven's Nephew (1985)
Beethoven Lives Upstairs (1992) [★★★★]
Immortal Beloved (1995) [★★★★]
Copying Beethoven (2006) [★★★★]
Beethoven Confidential (2007) [novelization of a never made film ★★★★★]
The Magic Bow (1946)
[★★★★]
Kinski/Paganini (1990)
Rossini! Rossini! (1991)
Rossini's Ghost (1996)
[★★★★]
Das Dreimädlerhaus
Leise flehen eine Lieder (Unfinished Symphony)
Blossom Time (April Romance) (1934)
New Wine (Melody Master) (1941)
Franz Schubert
Das Dreimädlerhaus
Berlioz (b. 1803)
La Symphonie Fantastique (1942)
La vie de Berlioz
Strauss I, Johann (b. 1804)
Chopin (b. 1810)
Schumann (b. 1810)
Liszt (b. 1811)
Wagner (b. 1813)
Verdi (b. 1813)
Bruckner (b. 1824)
Strauss II, Johann (b. 1825)
Brahms (b. 1833)
Bizet (b. 1838)
Tchaikovsky (b. 1840)
The Great Waltz (1972)
A Song to Remember (1945) [★★★★]
Impromptu (1991) [★★★★]
The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka
Chopin: Desire for Love (2004) [★★★]
Song of Love (1947) [★★★★] (also Brahms)
Spring Symphony (1986)
Schumann's Lost Romance (1996)
Lisztomania (1975)
Song Without End (1960) [★★★★]
Liszt's Rhapsody (1996)
Magic Fire (1954) [★★★★]
Wagner (1983) [★★★]
The Life of Verdi (1982)
[★★★★★]
The Strange Affliction of Anton Bruckner
A Waltz By Strauss (1925)
La valse de l'adieu (1928)
Der Walzerkönig (1930)
Strauss' Great Waltz (1934) (aka Waltzes from Vienna) [★★★+] (directed by Alfred Hitchcock)
The Great Waltz (1938) [★★★]
Walzer von Strauss (1952)
Ewiger Waltz (Eternal Waltz) (1954)
The Great Waltz (1955)
The Waltz King (1963)
The Strauss Family (1972) [★★★★★]
Johann Strauss - The King Without a Crown (1987)
The Strauss Dynasty (1991)
Strauss: The King of 3/4 Time (1995)
Johann Strauss - The Waltz King
Brahms
Brahms and the Little Singing Girls (1996)
Brahms Gets Laid [novelization of a never made film ★★★★★]
Bizet's Dream (1994)
Song of My Heart (1948)
The Peter Tchaikovsky Story
The Music Lovers
Sullivan (b. 1842)
Grieg (b. 1843)
Rimsky-Korsakov (b. 1844)
Elgar (b. 1857)
Puccini (b. 1858)
Mahler (b. 1860)
Debussy (b. 1862)
Delius (b. 1863)
Strauss, Richard (b. 1864)
Williams (b. 1872)
Rachmaninoff (b. 1873)
Bartok (b. 1881)
Stravinsky (b. 1882)
Bax (b. 1883)
Martinu (b. 1890)
Prokofiev (b. 1891)
Shostakovich (b. 1906)
The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan (1953)
Topsy-Turvy (2000) [★★★★★]
Song of Norway (1970) [★★★]
Song of Scheherezade (1947)
Elgar (1962)
Elgar: Fantasy of a Composer on a Bicycle (2002)
Elgar's Tenth Muse (2007)
Puccini (1952) [★★★]
Tony Palmer's Film About Puccini (1985)
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Perils of Cupid (2007) [★★★★]
Bride of the Wind (2001)
Mahler (1974) [★★★★]
Mahler on the Couch (2010)
The Debussy Film (1965)
Song of Summer (1962)
Dance of the Seven Veils (1970)
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Harvest of Sorrow (1997)
Bartok
Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky (2009) [★★★★]
The Secret Life of Arnold Bax
The Mystery of Dr. Martinu
Prokofiev
A House in Bayswater
Testimony - Tony Palmer's Story of Shostakovich (1988)
Stephen Foster (b. 1826)
John Philip Sousa (b. 1854)
Paul Dresser (b. 1857)
Victor Herbert (b. 1859)
W.C. Handy (b. 1873)
George M. Cohan (b. 1878)
Jerome Kern (b. 1885)
Gus Kahn (b. 1886)
Sigmund Romberg (b. 1887)
Irving Berlin (b. 1888)
Richard Rodgers (b. 1902)
Cole Porter (b. 1891)
George Gershwin (b. 1898)
Leonard Bernstein (b. 1918)
See also the book
Composers in the Movies: Studies in Musical Biography.
Harmony Lane (1934)
Swanee River (1939)
I Dream of Jeanie (1951)
Stars and Stripes Forever (1952)
My Gal Sal
The Great Victor Herbert
St. Louis Blues
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
Till the Clouds Roll By (1946)
I'll See You in my Dreams (1951)
Deep in My Heart (1954)
[★★★+]
Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938)
[★★★★★]
Words and Music (1948)
[★★★★]
Night and Day (1946)
[★★★★]
De-Lovely (2004)
[★★★★★]
Rhapsody in Blue (1945) [★★★★★]
Maestro (2023) [★★★★]
See here for excerpts of its contents.
Created Wed 06/24/2009
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