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*

## 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 Leaf*
***Weep No More, Sad Fountains*
***Something Tells*
**A 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
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*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.