Kurt Schröder

Kurt Schröder
Born	(1888-09-06)6 September 1888 Hagenow, Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, German Empire
Died	5 January 1962(1962-01-05) (aged 73) Frankfurt am Main West Germany
Occupation	Composer
Years active	1930–1949

Georges Bizet: 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

• Who Takes Love Seriously? (1931)
• Der Mörder Dimitri Karamasoff (1931)
• The Trunks of Mr. O.F. (1931)
• Where Is This Lady? (1932)
• Wedding Rehearsal (1932)
• Men of Tomorrow (1932)
• The Song You Gave Me (1933)
• Mirages de Paris (1933)
• Cash (1933)
• Red Wagon (1933)
• The Girl from Maxim's (1933)
• The Private Life of Henry VIII. (1933)
• On Secret Service (1933)
• Black Roses (1935)
• Escapade (1936)
• Uncle Bräsig (1936)
• Seven Slaps (1937)
• Fanny Elssler (1937)
• Triad (1938)
• The Scapegoat (1940)
• The Girl at the Reception (1940)
• Twilight (1940)
• Der laufende Berg (1941)
• Der Posaunist (1949)

Bibliography

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

External links

• Kurt Schröder at IMDb