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          Bernard Herrmann

          American composer (1911–1975)

          Not to be confused with the sometime conductor of the BBC Northern Dance Orchestra, Bernard Joseph Herrmann.

          Bernard Herrmann (born Maximillian Herman; June 29, 1911 – December 24, 1975) was an American composer and conductor[1] best known for his work in film scoring.

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        3. Bernard Herrmann (“Benny” to his friends) was born in New York City on 29 June and his early education took place at the De Witt Clinton High School.
        4. Herrmann was a prolific film composer, producing some of his most memorable work for Alfred Hitchcock, for whom he wrote nine scores.

          5. As a conductor, he championed the music of lesser-known composers. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest film composers.[2]Alex Ross writes that "Over four decades, he revolutionized movie scoring by abandoning the illustrative musical techniques that dominated Hollywood in the 1930s and imposing his own peculiar harmonic and rhythmic vocabulary."[3]

          An Academy Award-winner for The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941),[4] Herrmann worked in radio drama, composing for Orson Welles's The Mercury Theater on the Air, and his first film score was for Welles's film debut, Citizen Kane (1941).

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