Composer Movies

The great composer Arvo Pärt at work, whilst the artists who perform his music and are inspired by it illustrate the different aspects of the phenomen...

A prolific composer and one of the most celebrated poets in Brazilian music, Paulo César Pinheiro is the author of Canto das Três Raças and O Poder da...

A documentary about one of the most influential Latvian composers, Tālivaldis Ķeniņš, who lives in Canada.

Documentary on Frank Zappa.

One morning, the late Karlheinz Stockhausen awoke from a dream that told him to take to the sky. Stockhausen envisioned four helicopters swirling in t...

Raimonds Pauls is almost 85 years old, rehearses almost every day and performs at least once a week. What drives him? Not only he is the most popular...

A loving mother who has lost her family because of her alcoholism, tries her hardest to make things right as she is slowly consumed by her very own ni...

Brilliant composer and violinist George Enescu is at the peak of his career and wants to compose an opera. He falls in love with a princess, Maruca, w...

Ahmed Malek’s name might have been forgotten by his fellow Algerians but his timeless tunes certainly haven’t. Called the Ennio Morricone of Algiers,...

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

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

"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...

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

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

A short documentary on Jerome Kern and the making of Till the Clouds Roll By.