Kurt Schröder
Kurt Schröder (1888–1962) was a German composer and conductor. Schröder composed a number of film scores. During the 1930s he worked in Britain for Alexander Korda's London Film Productions, and scored the company's breakthrough hit The Private Life of Henry VIII in 1933.
Kurt Schröder
- Name
- Kurt Schröder
- Born
- 6 September 1888
- Birthplace
- Hagenow, Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, German Empire
- Died
- 5 January 1962
- Place of death
- Frankfurt am Main West Germany
- Occupation
- Composer
- Nationality
- Germany
- Fields
- classical music
- Education
- Newport High School
- Languages
- English · German
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Kurt Schröder (1888–1962) was a German composer and conductor. Schröder composed a number of film scores. During the 1930s he worked in Britain for Alexander Korda's London Film Productions, and scored the company's breakthrough hit The Private Life of Henry VIII in 1933.
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Kurt Schröder (1888–1962) was a composer, conductor and general music director, among other activities, of German nationality. The composer was born in Hagenow and died in Frankfurt. Kurt Schröder was educated at Newport High School.
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• Name — Kurt Schröder • Born — 6 September 1888 • Birthplace — Hagenow, Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, German Empire • Died — 5 January 1962 • Place of death — Frankfurt am Main West Germany • Occupation — Composer • Years Active — 1930–1949 • Illustration — Georges Bizet: L'Arlésienne, suite no. 1, first movement, excerpt from a 1948 recording with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony.
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• Who Takes Love Seriously? (1931) • Der Mörder Dimitri Karamasoff (1931) • The Trunks of Mr. O.F. (1931) • Where Is This Lady? (1932) • Wedding Rehearsal (1932) • Men of Tomorrow (1932) • The Song You Gave Me (1933) • Mirages de Paris (1933) • Cash (1933) • Red Wagon (1933) • The Girl from Maxim's (1933) • The Private Life of Henry VIII. (1933) • On Secret Service (1933) • Black Roses (1935) • Escapade (1936) • Uncle Bräsig (1936) • Seven Slaps (1937) • Fanny Elssler (1937) • Triad (1938) • The Scapegoat (1940) • The Girl at the Reception (1940) • Twilight (1940) • Der laufende Berg (1941) • Der Posaunist (1949)
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Kurt Schröder died in 1962 at Frankfurt.
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- Hake, Sabine. Popular Cinema of the Third Reich. University of Texas Press, 2001.
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