Biography
Alois Melichar (18 April 1896, in Vienna – 9 April 1976, in Munich) was an Austrian composer, conductor, arranger, and music critic. He was a student of Joseph Marx at the Vienna Academy of Music, then of Franz Schreker at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin, but later became increasingly culturally conservative.From 1923 to 1926 Melichar was in the Caucasus, where he collected materials on Caucasian folk songs. He then lived in Berlin and Vienna. As a composer, he followed the safe footpath of Max Reger, Hans Pfitzner, and Paul Graener; he wrote a symphonic poem, Der Dom (1934); Rhapsodie über ein schwedisches Volkslied (1939); Lustspiel-Ouvertüre (1942); lieder; and film music.
Under contract to UFA he composed music for many films during the National Socialist period.After World War II Melichar became increasingly polemic in his attacks on modernist music. His pamphlets include Die unteilbare Musik ("Indivisible music" 1952), Musik in der Zwangsjacke ("Music in the Straitjacket" 1958), and Schönberg und die Folgen ("Schoenberg and his Consequences" 1960).
Filmography
all 58
Movies 58
Director 1
Fuhrmann Henschel (1956)
Dunja (1955)
Sohn ohne Heimat (1955)
On your own (1954)
Tagebuch einer Verliebten (1953)
Vergiß die Liebe nicht (1953)
Dreaming Lips (1953)
April 1, 2000 (1952)
Maria Theresia (1951)
Geheimnis einer Ehe (1951)
K – Das Haus des Schweigens (1951)
Glück muß man haben (1950)
Two Times Lotte (1950)
Küssen ist keine Sünd (1950)
Weißes Gold (1950)
The Titan: Story of Michelangelo (1950)
Der blaue Strohhut (1949)
Das unsterbliche Antlitz (1949)
Mysterious Shadows (1949)
Eroica (1949)
Triumph der Liebe (1949)
Die seltsame Geschichte des Brandner Kaspar (1949)
Der himmlische Walzer (1948)
Ulli und Marei (1948)
The Trial (1948)
Die Fledermaus (1946)
Friends (1945)
Musik in Salzburg (1944)
Die Zaubergeige (1944)
Secret Tibet (1943)
Anschlag auf Baku (1942)
Rembrandt (1942)
Comrades (1941)
Das Mädchen von Fanö (1941)
My Life for Ireland (1941)
Das Fräulein von Barnhelm (1940)
Falstaff in Wien (1940)
Unsterblicher Walzer (1939)
Nanon (1938)
Capriccio (1938)
Mother Song (1937)
Land der Liebe (1937)
The Beggar Student (1936)
Three Girls Around Schubert (1936)
Liebeserwachen (1936)
Ave Maria (1936)
The Girl Irene (1936)
Vergiß mein nicht (1935)
Stradivarius (1935)
Wenn die Musik nicht wär (1935)
Stradivari (1935)
Liselotte of the Palatinate (1935)
The Gypsy Baron (1935)
Song of Farewell (1934)
Farewell Waltz (1934)
Der junge Baron Neuhaus (1934)
Court Waltzes (1933)
Waltz War (1933)
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GenderMale
Birthday1876-04-18
Deathday1976-04-09 (99 years old)
Birth PlaceVienna, Austria
CitizenshipsAustria
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