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Bernard Hermann

Bernard Herrmann
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Bernard Herrmann and his dog Twi, c. 1960
Born Max Herman
(1911-06-29)June 29, 1911
New York City, New York, U.S.
Died December 24, 1975(1975-12-24) (aged 64)
North Hollywood, California, U.S.
Occupation Composer, conductor
Years active 1941–1975
Spouse(s) Lucille Fletcher (m. 1939; div. 1948)
Lucy Anderson (m. 1949; div. 1964)
Norma Shepherd (m. 1967)
Children With Lucille Fletcher: 2 daughters Dorothy (b. 1941) and Wendy (b. 1945)
Awards 1941 Academy Award for
Music Score of a Dramatic Picture, All That Money Can Buy
1976 BAFTA Award for
Best Film Music, Taxi Driver
Website thebernardherrmannestate.com

Bernard Herrmann (born Max Herman; June 29, 1911 – December 24, 1975) was an American composer best known for his work in composing for motion pictures. As a conductor, he championed the music of lesser-known composers.

An Academy Award-winner (for The Devil and Daniel Webster, 1941; later renamed All That Money Can Buy), Herrmann is particularly known for his collaborations with director Alfred Hitchcock, most famously Psycho, North by Northwest, The Man Who Knew Too Much, and Vertigo. He also composed scores for many other movies, including Citizen Kane, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Cape Fear, and Taxi Driver. He worked extensively in radio drama (composing for Orson Welles), composed the scores for several fantasy films by Ray Harryhausen, and many TV programs, including Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone and Have Gun–Will Travel.

Herrmann, the son of a Jewish middle-class family of Russian origin, was born in New York City as Max Herman. His father, Abram Dardik, was from Ukraine and had changed the family name. Herrmann attended high school at DeWitt Clinton High School, an all-boys public school at that time on 10th Avenue and 59th Street in New York City. His father encouraged music activity, taking him to the opera, and encouraging him to learn the violin. After winning a composition prize at the age of thirteen, he decided to concentrate on music, and went to New York University where he studied with Percy Grainger and Philip James. He also studied at the Juilliard School and, at the age of twenty, formed his own orchestra, the New Chamber Orchestra of New York.


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