Herbert Windt

Herbert Windt (15 September 1894, Senftenberg, Brandenburg — 2 November 1965, Deisenhofen, now a part of Oberhaching, Bavaria) was a German composer who became one of the most significant film score composers of the Third Reich. He was best known for his collaborations with the director Leni Riefenstahl on films such as Triumph of the Will.
== Biography ==
A student of Franz Schreker, Windt became one of the most significant film score composers of the Third Reich along with Wolfgang Zeller, Michael Jary, Franz Grothe, and Georg Haentzschel. He was best known for his collaborations with Leni Riefenstahl, the director of Triumph of the Will (1934/35), Olympia (1938), and Tiefland (1945/54), but he also worked with directors like Wolfgang Liebeneiner (Die Entlassung), Georg Wilhelm Pabst (Paracelsus), Frank Wisbar (Die Unbekannte, Fährmann Maria, Hunde, wollt ihr ewig leben?), and Gustav Ucicky (Morgenrot). 
Windt's film scores for propaganda films drew the attention of the sociologist Siegfried Kracauer, who analysed the composer's works in the tracts From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film and Theory of Film: The Redemption of Physical Reality.
== Works ==
=== Cantata ===
* Andante religioso, eine Kammersinfonie nach sechs Sonatten (premiered in 1921) (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 erwünscht" : 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 .
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