Bernard Herrmann

Bernard Herrmann (born Maximillian Herman; June 29, 1911 – December 24, 1975) was an American composer known for writing music for movies.

He won the Academy Award for the movie The Devil and Daniel Webster made in 1941.  Herrmann often worked with director Alfred Hitchcock, including Psycho, North by Northwest, The Man Who Knew Too Much, and Vertigo. He also wrote music for many other movies, including Citizen Kane, Cape Fear and Taxi Driver. He also wrote music for radio drama including works for Orson Welles. He wrote for several fantasy movies by Ray Harryhausen, and many television programs.

Movie scores

Note: This is by the date of release, not when they were written
 Year Title Director Notes1941 Citizen Kane Orson Welles Oscar nominee The Devil and Daniel Webster William Dieterle Oscar winner 1942  The Magnificent Ambersons Orson Welles Uncredited 1944 Jane Eyre Robert Stephenson  1945 Hangover Square John Brahm  1946 Anna and the King of Siam John Cromwell Oscar nominee 1947 The Ghost and Mrs. Muir Joseph L. Mankiewicz  1948 Portrait of Jennie   William Dieterle Theme1951 The Day the Earth Stood Still Robert Wise Golden Globe nominee On Dangerous Ground Nicholas Ray 1952 5 Fingers Joseph L. Mankiewicz  The Snows of Kilimanjaro Henry King 1953  White Witch Doctor Henry Hathaway  Beneath the 12-Mile Reef  Robert Webb  King of the Khyber Rifles Henry King 1954 Garden of Evil Henry Hathaway  The Egyptian Michael Curtiz  Co-composer: Alfred Newman Prince of Players Philip Dunne 1955  The Trouble with Harry Alfred Hitchcock  The Kentuckian  Burt Lancaster 1956 The Man Who Knew Too Much Alfred Hitchcock  The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit Nunnally Johnson  The Wrong Man Alfred Hitchcock  Williamsburg: the Story of a Patriot George Seaton Short subject 1957 A Hatful of Rain Fred Zinnemann 1958 Vertigo Alfred Hitchcock The Naked and the Dead Raoul Walsh  The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad Nathan Juran 1959 North by Northwest Alfred Hitchcock  Blue Denim Philip Dunne  Journey to the Center of the Earth Henry Levin 1960 Psycho Alfred Hitchcock  The Three Worlds of Gulliver Jack Sher  1961 Mysterious Island Cy Endfield 1962 Tender Is the Night Henry King  Cape Fear J. Lee Thompson 1963 Jason and the Argonauts Don Chaffey  The Birds Alfred Hitchcock 1964 Marnie Alfred Hitchcock  1965 Joy in the Morning Alex Segal 1966 Torn Curtain  Alfred Hitchcock unused score Fahrenheit 451 François Truffaut 1968 The Bride Wore Black François Truffaut  Twisted Nerve  Roy Boulting main theme featured in Kill Bill, Vol. 1 (2003) 1969 The Battle of Neretva Veljko Bulajic 1971 The Night Digger Alastair Reid  The Battle of Neretva Veljko Bulajic  Endless Night Sidney Gilliatt  1973 Sisters Brian De Palma  1974 It's Alive Larry Cohen 1976 Obsession Brian De Palma Oscar nominee Taxi Driver Martin Scorsese Oscar and Grammy nominee; BAFTA winner

 Radio scores 
 Melodramas 
These works are for a speaker and a full orchestra. These were written to be played over the radio because a human voice would not be able to be heard over the full volume of an orchestra.  The 1935 works were written before June 1935.

La Belle Dame Sans Merci (September 1934)
The City of Brass (December 1934)
Annabel Lee (1934-1935)
Poem Cycle (1935):The Willow LeafWeep No More, Sad FountainsSomething TellsA Shropshire Lad (1935)Cynara (1935)

 Music for radio shows and dramas 
Palmolive Beauty Box (1935?) (2 existing cues)
Dauber (October 1936)
Rhythm of the Jute Mill (December 1936)
Gods of the Mountain (1937)
Brave New World (1956)

Concert works
The Forest: Tone poem for Large Orchestra (1929)
November Dusk: Tone Poem for Large Orchestra (1929)
Tempest and Storm: Furies Shrieking!: for Piano (1929)
The Dancing Faun and The Bells: Two Songs for Medium Voice and Small Chamber Orchestra (1929)
Requiescat: Violin and Piano (1929)
Twilight: Violin and Piano (1929)
March Militaire (1932), ballet music for Americana Revue (1932)
Aria for Flute and Harp (1932)
Variations on "Deep River" and "Water Boy" (1933)
Prelude to Anathema: for Fifteen Instruments (1933)
Silent Noon: for Fourteen Instruments (1933)
The Body Beautiful (1935), music from the Broadway play
Nocturne and Scherzo (1935)
Sinfonietta for Strings (1935)
Currier and Ives Suite (1935)
Violin Concerto: Unfinished (1937)
Moby Dick: Cantata (1937)
Johnny Appleseed: Unfinished Cantata (1940)
Symphony (1941)
The Fantasticks (1942)
The Devil and Daniel Webster Suite (1942)
For the Fallen (1943)
Welles Raises Kane (1943)
Wuthering Heights: Opera (1951)
Echoes: String Quartet (1965)
Souvenirs de Voyage (1967)
The King of Schnorrers (1968) Musical comedy

Related pages
 Columbia Workshop - a radio series for which Herrmann was music director and wrote music for many episodes.
High Anxiety— a comedy that makes fun of many Hitchcock movies and Herrmann's music.
Hitchcock & Herrmann— a stage play about the relationship between Herrmann and Alfred Hitchcock.

References

Other websites
The Bernard Herrmann Estate
The Bernard Herrmann Society

Bernard Herrmann papers , at the University of California, Santa Barbara Library.
Bernard Herrmann: The Early Years
Bernard Herrmann at Soundtrackguide.net
 Bernard Herrmann: A Celebration of his Life and Music 
Gramophone magazine obituary , February 1976.

Category:1911 births
Category:1975 deaths
Category:Academy Award winning composers
Category:American movie score composers
Category:Deaths from heart failure
Category:Entertainers from New York City