The Composer on Screen

<p> This collection of new essays explores the many ways in which composers have been depicted in film and what audiences have taken away from such depictions. Beginning with some of the earliest silent film examples--including some of the first feature-length bio-pics ever produced--these essays range from the 12th century abbess Hildegard of Bingen to the great classical and romantic eras of Verdi Wagner Berlioz and Strauss up to the 20th century's Elgar Delius Gershwin and Blitzstein.</p>