Composer Movies

Presents Handel as a key figure in the development of Baroque music. Illustrates with musical selections his contributions to 18th century music...

Santini's Network is a biographical film by German filmmaker Georg Brintrup on the life of Roman music collector Fortunato Santini and how his famous...

A biography and tribute to one of Japan's most prolific composers.

An old timbal performer in a puppet theater has a secret past.

When Leipzig pianist Kyra Steckeweh realized that her repertoire almost exclusively consisted of music composed by men, she began searching for...

A middle aged composer returns to Vienna after ten years in America, falls in love with a Japanese student and writes his last opera for her.

Fifty years after his death, this musical and psychological portrait of Ralph Vaughan Williams explores the passions that drove a giant of...

This short film provides a fanciful account of how Felix Mendelssohn came to compose "The Wedding March".

Zhou Lan-Ping, who wrote the renowned Mandarin pop song ‘Green Island Serenade’ and the score of the acclaimed Chinese musical film The...

"mm"s are m(usic(ian's))m(eetings) mostly held at the Who Unit? in Pittsburgh as a 21st century salon of sorts where formal interests can be broached...

A portrait of the film-composer David Raksin, made for German television. Released in 1994.

An early morning phone call in 2017 changed the lives of two teenage brothers bonded by their love of percussion. One died tragically in a car...

Mab is a creative young composer who is deathly afraid of going outside after the death of her sister, Holly. She is the owner of Mab's Music - a...

Pauline Oliveros isn’t just one of the most influential 20th century composers , she’s literally changed the way many people hear and...

An obsessive composing student alone in his apartment takes on more than he can handle when a night terror turns nightmare come true.

Composer Christian Jessup follows up his 2017 "A New Score" with "A New Score Strikes Back," developing the music of Star Wars using modern...

A BBC documentary hosted by Charles Hazlewood about the life & music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Part 1: A Miracle of Nature.