Bernhard Eichhorn

{{short description|German composer}}

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| name = Bernhard Eichhorn

| birth_date = 17 April 1904

| birth_place = Schortewitz, German Empire

| death_date = 6 February 1980

| death_place = Miesbach, Bavaria, West Germany

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| occupation = Composer

| yearsactive = 19401976

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Bernhard Eichhorn (17 April 1904 – 6 February 1980) was a German composer, who produced a number of film scores.

Biography

Eichhorn was born in Schortewitz.{{cite web | last=Schoen | first=Gerhard | title=Bayerisches Musiker-Lexikon Online | website=Bayerisches Musiker-Lexikon Online | date=8 April 2012 | url=https://bmlo.de/Q/GND=130155233 | language=de | access-date=30 January 2022}} In 1927, he joined the Universität und Akademie für Tonkunst in Munich, under Arthur Kutscher. In 1927/28, he was Korrepetitor at the Bavarian State Opera and afterwards Kapellmeister at the Bayerische Landesbühne. From 1934 to 1944, he was music director at the Staatstheater Dresden.{{cite web | title=Eichhorn, Bernhard / Deutscher Komponistenverband | website=Komponistenlexikon | url=http://www.komponistenlexikon.de/komponisten.php?id=192 | access-date=30 January 2022}} From 1945 to 1947, Eichhorn was Kapellmeister at the Städtische Bühnen München. Since then, he lived as a freelance composer for film, radio, television and the stage.

He died in Miesbach.{{cite web | title=Bernhard Eichhorn | website=Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek | url=https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/person/gnd/130155233 | language=de | access-date=30 January 2022}}

Selected filmography

Bibliography

  • {{cite book | last=Reimer | first=Robert | title=Cultural history through a National Socialist lens : essays on the cinema of the Third Reich | publisher=Camden House | publication-place=Rochester, NY | year=2000 | isbn=978-1-57113-164-5 | oclc=43186070}}

References

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