Women Composers

The portrait of Russian composer Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky focuses on his failed love affair.

Lyrical biography of the classical composer, depicted as a romantic hero, an accursed artist.

A chronicle of the life of infamous classical composer Ludwig van Beethoven and his painful struggle with hearing loss. Following Beethoven's death...

Frank Scheffer's (collage like) documentary on the American composer and rock guitarist Frank Zappa, as broadcast by VPRO in the Netherlands April...

Children and childhood fascinated Benjamin Britten throughout his life and inspired some of his greatest music. John Bridcut's compelling film sheds...

A successful songwriter, dazzled by high society, falls for a society girl who is just playing around.

The documentary examines Frank Zappa and his music through archive footage, including unique video excerpts from Austrian television archives...

Leonard Bernstein discusses his Boston childhood, his musical growth at Harvard and the Curtis Institute and the influence of great masters like...

A composer goes to Devil's Island for killing his wife's lover, then writes an opera about it.

Piano Vladimir Horowitz in a televised recital from the White House on 26 January 1978, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of his US debut, at...

In 1965, passionate musician Glenn Holland takes a day job as a high school music teacher, convinced it's just a small obstacle on the road to his...

Lyla and Louis, a singer and a musician, fall in love, but are soon compelled to separate. Lyla is forced to give up her newborn but unknown to her,...