Kurt Schröder

{{Short description|German composer and conductor}}

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| name = Kurt Schröder

| birth_date = {{birth date|1888|09|06|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Hagenow, Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, German Empire

| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1962|1|5|1888|9|6}}

| death_place = Frankfurt am Main
West Germany

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| occupation = Composer

| yearsactive = 19301949

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File:Georges Bizet L'Arlésienne Suite no. 1 1st movement excerpt.mp3: L'Arlésienne, suite no. 1, first movement, excerpt from a 1948 recording with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony.]]

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.

Selected filmography

Bibliography

  • Hake, Sabine. Popular Cinema of the Third Reich. University of Texas Press, 2001.