Composer Movies

Relying on a bounty of archival footage and interviews with prominent musicians and intimates, Philo Bregstein's film traces the life and career of...

This documentary captures the overflowing energy and activity of one today's greatest composers, Philip Glass, and allows us to follow him from New...

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

Frank Zappa: The Present-Day Composer Refuses To Die is a 2000 documentary about Frank Zappa.

This 56-minute documentary on America's most controversial and unique composer manages to cover a great many aspects of Cage's work and thought. His...

Beethoven's Hair traces the unlikely journey of a lock of hair cut from Beethoven's corpse and unravels the mystery of his tortured life and death....

Ever-innovative and pioneering contemporary composer İlhan Usmanbaş celebrated his 100th birthday! Usmanbaş shared his life story with...

Vienna, Austria, late 1870s. After suffering an irreparable misfortune, the Austrian composer Johann Strauss Jr. (1825-99), the Waltz King, falls in...

A vacationing journalist investigates the mysterious death of a composer and debunks the theory that it was suicide.

Documentary about the life of the great pianist and composer Chopin and the story of the women whose voices inspired his music. It is undeniable that...

A portrait of one of England's greatest composers. Winner of the Prix Italia.

Award-winning filmmaker Tony Palmer directs this riveting documentary on the life and times of influential English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams....

A young man loses his fiancee, struck by lightning, on his wedding day.

A documentary telling the story of composer George Butterworth's life and music from his earliest childhood to his final hours in the violent...