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Erich Wolfgang Korngold

American composer of austro-hungarian birth (1897-1957).

Born May 29th, 1897 in Brno. [ref]

Died November 29th, 1957 at 60 years old in Hollywood. [ref]

Occupations
classical composer, conductor, film score composer, librettist, pianist

Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life. John Muir