Bernard Hermann
| Bernard Herrmann | |
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Bernard Herrmann and his dog Twi, c. 1960
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| Born |
Max Herman June 29, 1911 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Died | December 24, 1975 (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 |
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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