Composer Movies

Anne Boyd, one of Australia's leading contemporary composers, teaches music at the publicly funded University of Sydney. This documentary chronicles a...

As the waters of the river Seine overflow their banks and surround a Parisian café, composer Erik Satie nurtures bittersweet memories of his one-time...

Paul, an American composer, arrives in the desert town of Real de Catorce where his father recently died. For the past ten years, Paul has been consum...

Franz Schubert works as school teacher, yet his mind and soul are in music. When he is engaged as a pianist for an aristocratic soirée he doesn't susp...

Saint Petersburg, 1858. A group of composers known as The Five meet at Balakirev's. Young Modest Mussorgsky, both a civil servant and a musician, has...

An ambitious chorus girl finds fame, marriage, and motherhood with a talented composer, only to leave him for a handsome singer.

For Ted, music and creation are the most important things in life. And around him he has a small group of friends who never hesitate to do everything...

Sam Green's intimate portrait of Annea Lockwood shares with us a glimpse into the enthralling world of sound that she has been exploring and creating...

This live recording was culled from seven September 1992 concerts given in Vienna, Berlin, and Frankfurt by the Ensemble Modern, a Frankfurt-based cha...

A thoroughly researched biopic of Charles Ives, America's greatest and most innovative composer (and insurance executive),who combined strikingly fut...

The Wonder Commission is a new music commission of The Well, composed by Dr. Brian Raphael Nabors and performed by the Antigone Music Collective. Insp...

His filmmaker son probes the professional and private lives of his remote but fascinating father: bandleader, composer, inventor, and electronic music...

Russell's composer biopics were usually labours of love. However, this was the opposite: Russell regarded the music of Richard Strauss 'bombastic, sha...

Documentary about Canadian composer John Wyre.

In a triumphant career that lasted forty years Erroll Garner pushed the playability of the piano to its limits, developed an international reputation,...

A composer is stuck in a middle-class marriage and finds that his affair with his wife's half-sister has resulted in a pregnancy. When his wife refuse...

Ludwig van Beethoven headed for Symphony No. 9 literally his entire life. As early as the 1790s, he had an eye on Ode to Joy, perhaps the most well-kn...

A documentary by Tony Palmer on English composer Sir William Walton (1902–1983),made shortly before his death. The film includes the only full-length...

"A soundscape is any collection of sounds, almost like a painting is a collection of visual attractions," says composer R. Murray Schafer. "When you l...

Explores the life and innovations of composer and electronic music pioneer Suzanne Ciani.