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This list provides details of cinematic portrayals of composers as characters in film.

A composer may be the main subject of a film, or a less important character. The events portrayed might be reasonably historically accurate or might be fictionalised to some degree. The list includes films released in cinemas as well as films made for television.

This list does not cover purely documentary films. Some films mix elements of drama and documentary, such as Ken Russell's Elgar, and these can be included.

This list does not give details of roles where an actor provides only their voice; nor does it include portrayals of fictional composers.

## List of films by composer

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Details shown for each film are:

* title
* year of production
* country of production
* language if other than English
* name of actor portraying the composer (they are sometimes shown at different ages in the same film, requiring different actors).

Composer  | Film details  | Actor

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Isaac Albéniz |  Albéniz (1947); Argentina; Spanish  | Pedro López Lagar
Holmes & Watson. Madrid Days (2012); Spain; Spanish  | Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón
Johann Georg Albrechtsberger | Whom the Gods Love (1942); Germany, Austria; German  | Fritz Imhoff
Eroica (1949); Austria; German  | Alfred Neugebauer
Johann Christoph Altnickol | Friedemann Bach (1941); Germany; German  | Gustav Knuth
Anna Magdalena Bach | Friedemann Bach (1941); Germany; German  | Lina Lossen
The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (1968); West Germany; German  | Christiane Lang
Il était une fois Jean-Sébastien Bach (2003); France, French  | Elena Lenskaya
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach | Friedemann Bach (1941); Germany; German  | Wolfgang Liebeneiner
Mein Name ist Bach (2003); France, Germany, Switzerland; German  | Paul Herwig
Johann Christoph Bach | Il était une fois Jean-Sébastien Bach (2003); France, French  | Cédric Vallet
Johann Sebastian Bach | Friedemann Bach (1941); Germany; German  | Eugen Klöpfer
The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (1968); West Germany; German  | Gustav Leonhardt
Mozart (1982) TV series; France, Belgium, Canada, Italy, Switzerland; French  | Gerd Böckmann
Bach's Fight for Freedom (1995); Canada, Czech Republic  | Ted Dykstra
Uzhin V Chetyre Ruki (2000); Russia  | Evgeniy Steblov
Il était une fois Jean-Sébastien Bach (2003); France, French  | Gwenaël Foucher, Christian Vadim
Mein Name ist Bach (2003); France, Germany, Switzerland; German  | Vadim Glowna
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach | Friedemann Bach (1941); Germany; German  | Gustaf Gründgens
The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (1968); West Germany; German  | Andreas Pangritz
Mein Name ist Bach (2003); France, Germany, Switzerland; German  | Anatole Taubman
Mily Balakirev | Mussorgsky (1950); USSR; Russian  | Vladimir Balashov
Béla Bartók | Bartok (1964); UK  | Boris Ranevsky
Leonard Bernstein | Maestro | Bradley Cooper
Ludwig van Beethoven
see also: Beethoven in film
see also: Category:Depictions of Ludwig van Beethoven on film | Franz Schuberts letzte Liebe (1926); Austria; German  | Theodor Weiser
Beethoven's Great Love (1937); France; French  | Harry Baur
Serenade (1940); France; French  | Auguste Bovério
The Great Awakening (1941); USA  | Albert Bassermann
Whom the Gods Love (1942); Germany, Austria; German  | René Deltgen
Heavenly Music (1943); USA  | Steven Geray
Eroica (1949); Austria; German  | Ewald Balser
Napoléon (1955); France; French  | Erich von Stroheim
The House of Three Girls (1958); West Germany, Austria; German  | Ewald Balser
The Magnificent Rebel (1962); USA, Austria; English, German
(made as 2 episodes of the TV series Disneyland but then unified as a feature film and given a cinematic release) | Karlheinz Böhm
Le Neveu de Beethoven (1985); France, West Germany  | Wolfgang Reichmann
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989); USA; English  | Clifford David
Beethoven Lives Upstairs (1992); Canada  | Neil Munro
Immortal Beloved (1994); UK, USA; English, Hungarian  | Gary Oldman
Eroica (2003); UK  | Ian Hart
Beethoven (2005: TV mini-series)  | Paul Rhys
Copying Beethoven (2006); USA  | Ed Harris
Louis van Beethoven (2020) [de] (2020); Germany  | Tobias Moretti
Vincenzo Bellini | Casta Diva (1935); Italy; Italian  | Sandro Palmieri
Casta Diva (1954); Italy; Italian  | Maurice Ronet
Casa Ricordi (1954); Italy; Italian  | Maurice Ronet
Hector Berlioz | Paganini (1923); Germany; silent  | Jean Nadolovitch
La Symphonie fantastique (1942); France; French  | Jean-Louis Barrault
Lisztomania (1975); UK  | Murray Melvin
Liszt Ferenc (1982); Hungary; Hungarian  | József Székhelyi
La vie de Berlioz (1983); France; French  | Daniel Mesguich
Georges Bizet | Bizet's Dream (1994); Czech Republic, Canada  | Maurice Godin
Arrigo Boito | Puccini (1953); Italy; Italian  | Carlo Duse
The Life of Verdi (1982); Italy, France, UK, West Germany, Sweden; Italian  | Lino Capolicchio
Alexander Borodin | Song of My Heart (1948); USA  | Robert Barron
Mussorgsky (1950); USSR; Russian  | Yuri Leonidov
Johannes Brahms | Rosen aus dem Süden (1934); Germany; German  | Hugo Werner-Kahle
Guten Abend, gute Nacht (1936); Germany; German  | Albert Florath
Dreaming (1944); Germany; German  | Ullrich Haupt
Song of Love (1947); USA (re-released in 1950 in a shorter version titled The Schumann Story) | Robert Walker
The Strauss Family (1972); UK  | Laurence Carter
Der Fall des Robert Schumann (1990); West Germany; German  | Martin Ehrbächer
Inner Voices (2003); Canada  | Ken Roy
Robert Schumann - Clara Wieck - Johannes Brahms (2006); Germany; German  | Sebastian Mirow
Geliebte Clara (2008); Germany, France, Hungary; German  | Malik Zidi
Anton Bruckner | The Strange Affliction of Anton Bruckner (1990); UK  | Peter Mackriel
Bruckners Entscheidung (1995); Germany; German  | Joachim Bauer
Hans von Bülow | Magic Fire (1955); USA  | Eric Schumann
Ludwig (1972); Italy, France; Italian, French  | Mark Burns
Lisztomania (1975); UK  | Andrew Reilly
Liszt Ferenc (1982); Hungary; Hungarian  | István Iglódi
Wagner (1983); UK  | Miguel Herz-Kestranek
Wahnfried (1986); Germany, France; German, French  | Peter Matic
Ferruccio Busoni | Sibelius (2003); Finland; Finnish  | Hannu Kivioja
Dieterich Buxtehude | Il était une fois Jean-Sébastien Bach (2003); France, French  | Alain Floret
Frédéric Chopin | Chopin e George Sand (1910); Italy; silent  | Alberto Degli Abbati
Nocturne of Love (1919); Germany; silent  | Conrad Veidt
Fadette (1926); Germany; German  | Alfred Abel
La chanson de l'adieu (1934); Germany; French  | Jean Servais
Farewell Waltz (1934); Germany; German  | Wolfgang Liebeneiner
The Life of Chopin (1938); UK  | Frank Henderson
Pontcarral, colonel d'empire (1942); France; French  | Jean Chaduc
Szerelmes szívek (1944); Hungary; Hungarian  | Gyula Benkö
A Song to Remember (1945); USA  | Cornel Wilde
Housle a sen (1947); Czechoslovakia; Czech  | Václav Voska
Bohemian Rapture (1948); Czechoslovakia; Czech  | Václav Voska
La rebelión de los fantasmas (1949); Mexico; Spanish  | Francisco Valera
Nocturne in Scotland (1951); UK  | Hugh Burden
Youth of Chopin (1952); Poland; Polish  | Czesław Wołłejko
George Sand (1958); Brazil; Portuguese  | Egídio Eccio
George Sandin salongissa (1960); Finland; Finnish  | Fred Richard
Song Without End (1960); USA  | Alexander Davion
Prelúdio, A Vida de Chopin (1962); Brazil; Portuguese  | Cláudio Marzo
Chopin and George Sand - The Creative Years (1966); UK  | Jeremy Brett
Jutrzenka (aka A Winter in Mallorca) (1969); Spain; Spanish  | Christopher Sandford
George Who? (1973); France; French  | Pierre Kalinovski
Notorious Woman (1974); UK  | George Chakiris
Lisztomania (1975); UK  | Kenneth Colley
Sex Pot (1975); Italy, France; Italian  | Aldo Maccione
Le porte-clefs (1981); France; French  | Jean-Claude Leguay
Liszt Ferenc (1982); Hungary; Hungarian  | László Gálffi
Ein Winter auf Mallorca (1982); West Germany; German  | Krystian Martinek
Impromptu (1991); UK, France  | Hugh Grant
La note bleue (1991); France, Germany; French  | Janusz Olejniczak
Chopin - Bilder einer Trennung (1993); France, Germany  | Stephan Wolf-Schönburg
The Strange Case of Delphina Potocka: or, The Mystery of Chopin (1999)  | Paul Rhys
Pół serio (2000); Poland; Polish  | Rafal Królikowski
Toute la ville en parle (2000); France; French  | Maurice Mons
Chopin: Frédéric et George (2001); Canada; French  | Darren Bonin
Chopin: Desire for Love (2002); Poland; Polish  | Piotr Adamczyk
George et Fanchette (2010); France; French  | Fabrice Pruvost
George M. Cohan | Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942); USA  | James Cagney
The Seven Little Foys (1955); USA
Aaron Copland | Salón México (1996); Mexico  | Steven Brown
Maestro | Brian Klugman
César Cui | Song of My Heart (1948); USA  | William Ruhl
Mussorgsky (1950); USSR; Russian  | Bruno Freindlich
Alexander Dargomyzhsky | Mussorgsky (1950); USSR; Russian  | Fyodor Nikitin
Kompozitor Glinka (1953); USSR; Russian  | Yuri Lyubimov
Claude Debussy | The Debussy Film (1958); UK  | Oliver Reed
Camille Claudel (1988); France; French  | Maxime Leroux
La musique de l’amour: Chouchou (1995); France; French  | François Marthouret
Élie-Miriam Delaborde | Bizet's Dream (1994); Czech Republic, Canada  | R. H. Thomson
Frederick Delius | Song of Summer (1968); UK  | Max Adrian
Anton Diabelli | It's Only Love (1947); Austria; German  | Julius Brandt
Franz Schubert (1953); Austria; German  | Franz Pfaudler
The House of Three Girls (1958); West Germany, Austria; German  | Richard Romanowsky
Gaetano Donizetti | Il cavaliere del sogno (1947); Italy; Italian  | Amedeo Nazzari
Casa Ricordi (1954); Italy; Italian  | Marcello Mastroianni
The Life of Verdi (1982); Italy, France, UK, West Germany, Sweden; Italian  | Ugo Bologna
Sophie Eckhardt-Gramatté | Appassionata: The Extraordinary Life & Music of Sonia Eckhardt-Gramatté (2006); Canada  | Colombe Demers
Edward Elgar | Elgar (1962); UK  | George McGrath
Józef Elsner | La chanson de l'adieu (1934); Germany; French  | Marcel Vallée
Farewell Waltz (1934); Germany; German  | Richard Romanowsky
A Song to Remember (1945); USA  | Paul Muni
Youth of Chopin (1952); Poland; Polish  | Jan Kurnakowicz
Prelúdio, A Vida de Chopin (1962); Brazil; Portuguese  | Percy Aires
Ferenc Erkel | Liszt Ferenc (1982); Hungary; Hungarian  | László Vajda
Eric Fenby | Song of Summer (1968); UK  | Christopher Gable
Stephen Foster | Harmony Lane (1935); USA, English  | Douglass Montgomery
Swanee River (1939); USA, English  | Don Ameche
I Dream of Jeanie (1952); USA, English  | Bill Shirley
Frederick II of Prussia | Mein Name ist Bach (2003); France, Germany, Switzerland; German  | Jürgen Vogel
Niels Gade | Song of Norway (1970); USA  | Ronald Adam
George Gershwin | Rhapsody in Blue (1945); USA  | Robert Alda
So This Is Love (1953); USA  | William Boyett
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Hollywood Follies ([1]); (1994); USA  | Tom Beckett
Alexander Glazunov | Rimsky-Korsakov (1952); USSR; Russian  | Viktor Khokhryakov
Testimony (1987); Denmark, Netherlands, Sweden, West Germany, UK  | Peter Woodthorpe
Mikhail Glinka | The Great Glinka (1946); USSR; Russian  | Boris Chirkov
Kompozitor Glinka (1953); USSR; Russian  | Boris Smirnov
Szerelmi álmok – Liszt (1970); Hungary, USSR; various  | Petr Shelokhonov
Percy Grainger | Song of Summer (1968); UK  | David Collings
Passion (1999); Australia  | Richard Roxburgh
Edvard Grieg | Song of Norway (1970); USA  | Toralv Maurstad
Johan Halvorsen | Sibelius (2003); Finland; Finnish  | Johan Fagerudd
George Frideric Handel | The Great Mr. Handel (1942); UK  | Wilfrid Lawson
God Rot Tunbridge Wells! (1986); UK  | Trevor Howard, Christopher Bramwell, Dave Griffiths
Farinelli (1994); Italy, Belgium, France; French, Italian  | Jeroen Krabbé
Handel's Last Chance (1996); Canada, Slovakia  | Leon Pownall
Uzhin V Chetyre Ruki (2000); Russia  | Mikhail Kozakov
Joseph Haydn | Eternal Melodies (1940), Italy, Italian  | Cesare Polacco
The Magnificent Rebel (1962); USA, Austria; English, German
(made as 2 episodes of the TV series Disneyland but then unified as a feature film and given a cinematic release) | Ernst Nadherny
Mozart (1982) TV series; France, Belgium, Canada, Italy, Switzerland; French  | Peter Pasetti
Forget Mozart (1985); West Germany, Czechoslovakia; German  | Ladislav Chudík
Eroica (2003); UK  | Frank Finlay
The Genius of Mozart (2004); UK  | Ron Donachie
Michael Haydn | Mozart (1982) TV series; France, Belgium, Canada, Italy, Switzerland; French  | Jean-Pierre Sentier
Bernard Herrmann | RKO 281 (1999); USA  | Kerry Shale
Hildegard of Bingen | Vision – From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen (2009); Germany, France; German, English  | Barbara Sukowa
Anselm Hüttenbrenner | Blossom Time (1934); UK  | Ivan Samson
Unfinished Symphony (1937); UK, Austria  | Esme Percy
Leoš Janáček | In Search of Janáček (2004); Czech Republic; Czech  | Hanuš Bor
Armas Järnefelt | Sibelius (2003); Finland; Finnish  | Tapani Kalliomäki
Scott Joplin | Scott Joplin (1977); USA  | Billy Dee Williams
Robert Kajanus | Sibelius (2003); Finland; Finnish  | Vesa Vierikko
Friedrich Kalkbrenner | La chanson de l'adieu (1934); Germany; French  | Marcel André
Farewell Waltz (1934); Germany; German  | Gustav Waldau
A Song to Remember (1945); USA  | Howard Freeman
Aram Khachaturian | Testimony (1987); Denmark, Netherlands, Sweden, West Germany, UK  | William Squire
Khachaturian (2003); United States  | Peter Rosen
Ernst Krenek | Mahler (1974); UK  | Kenneth Colley
Joseph Lanner | The Strauss Family (1972); UK  | Derek Jacobi
Vatroslav Lisinski | Lisinski (1944); Yugoslavia, Germany; Croatian  | Branko Špoljar
Franz Liszt | Paganini (1923); Germany; silent  | Gustav Fröhlich
La chanson de l'adieu (1934); Germany; French  | Daniel Lecourtois
Farewell Waltz (1934); Germany; German  | Hans Schlenck
If It Were Not for Music (1935); Germany; German, Italian  | Luis Rainer
Suez (1938); USA  | Brandon Hurst
Pontcarral, colonel d'empire (1942); France; French  | Marc Dantzer
The Phantom of the Opera (1943); USA  | Fritz Leiber
Dreaming (1944); Germany; German  | Emil Lohkamp
A Song to Remember (1945); USA  | Stephen Bekassy
Song of Love (1947); USA (re-released in 1950 in a shorter version titled The Schumann Story, but the Liszt character was cut out) | Henry Daniell
Kompozitor Glinka (1953); USSR; Russian  | Sviatoslav Richter
Magic Fire (1955); USA  | Carlos Thompson
Lola Montès (1955); France, West Germany  | Will Quadflieg
George Sandin salongissa (1960); Finland; Finnish  | Jaakko Helkavaara
Song Without End (1960); USA  | Dirk Bogarde
Song of Norway (1970); USA  | Henry Gilbert
Szerelmi álmok – Liszt (1970); Hungary, USSR; various  | Imre Sinkovits
George Who? (1973); France; French  | Maxence Mailfort
Notorious Woman (1974); UK  | Jeremy Irons
Lisztomania (1975); UK  | Roger Daltrey
Liszt Ferenc (1982); Hungary; Hungarian  | Iván Darvas, Géza Hegedüs D.
La vie de Berlioz (1983); France; French  | Péter Trokán
Wagner (1983); UK  | Ekkehard Schall
Wahnfried (1986); Germany, France; German, French  | Anton Diffring
Impromptu (1991); UK, France  | Julian Sands
Liszt's Rhapsody (1996): Canada  | Geordie Johnson
Chopin: Desire for Love (2002); Poland; Polish  | Michal Konarski
Jean-Baptiste Lully | Le Roi danse (2000); France; French  | Boris Terral
Anatoly Lyadov | Rimsky-Korsakov (1952); USSR; Russian  | Anatoliy Kuznetsov
Gustav Mahler | Mahler (1974); UK  | Robert Powell
Nedovrsena simfonija (1998); Yugoslavia; Serbian  | Slobodan Ljubicic
Bride of the Wind (2001); UK, Germany, Austria  | Jonathan Pryce
Mahler on the Couch (2010); Germany, Austria; German  | Johannes Silberschneider
Marin Marais | Tous les Matins du Monde (1991); France; French  | Gérard Depardieu
Fanny Mendelssohn | Requiem for Fanny (2001); Canada  | Estelle Clareton
Felix Mendelssohn | Lisztomania (1975); UK  | Otto Diamant
Besuch bei ihr (1982); East Germany; German  | Klaus-Peter Thiele
Spring Symphony (1983); West Germany; German  | André Heller
Requiem for Fanny (2001); Canada  | Paul-Antoine Taillefer
André Messager | La musique de l'amour: Chouchou (1995); France; French  | Valeri Doronin
Giacomo Meyerbeer | Magic Fire (1955); USA  | Charles Régnier
Wagner (1983); UK  | Vernon Dobtcheff
Ignaz Moscheles | Nocturne in Scotland (1951); UK  | Marcel Poncin
Stanisław Moniuszko | Warsaw Premiere (1951); Poland; Polish  | Jan Koecher
Leopold Mozart | Mozarts Leben, Lieben und Leiden (1921), Austria; German  | Paul Gerhardt
Whom the Gods Love (1936); UK  | Hubert Harben
Eternal Melodies (1940), Italy, Italian  | Luigi Pavese
Whom the Gods Love (1942); Germany, Austria; German  | Walter Janssen
Mozart: A Childhood Chronicle (1974); West Germany; German  | Maria Schley
Mozart (1982) TV series; France, Belgium, Canada, Italy, Switzerland; French  | Michel Bouquet
Amadeus (1984); USA  | Roy Dotrice
Noi tre (1984), Italy, Italian  | Lino Capolicchio
The Genius of Mozart (2004); UK  | Kenneth Cranham
Mozart - Ich hätte München Ehre gemacht (2006); Germany  | Gerard Alexander Held
In Search of Mozart (2006) UK  | Sean Barrett
Mozart's Sister (2010); France; French  | Marc Barbé
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Mozarts Leben, Lieben und Leiden (1921), Austria; German  | Josef Zetenius, Senta Stillmark
Whom the Gods Love (1936); UK  | Stephen Haggard, Pat Fitzpatrick
Eternal Melodies (1940), Italy, Italian  | Cesare Barbetti, Gino Cervi
Whom the Gods Love (1942); Germany, Austria; German  | Hans Holt
Mozart (1955); Austria; German  | Oskar Werner
A Requiem for Mozart (1967); USSR; Russian  | Innokenty Smoktunovsky
Mozart: A Childhood Chronicle (1974); West Germany; German  | Pavlos Bekiaris, Diego Crovetti, Santiago Ziesmer
Mozart (1982) TV series; France, Belgium, Canada, Italy, Switzerland; French  | Karol Zuber, Jean-François Dichamp, Christoph Bantzer
Amadeus (1984); USA  | Tom Hulce
Noi tre (1984), Italy, Italian  | Cristopher Davidson
Forget Mozart (1985); West Germany, Czechoslovakia; German  | Max Tidof
The Genius of Mozart (2004); UK  | Jack Tarlton
Mozart - Ich hätte München Ehre gemacht (2006); Germany  | Xaver Hutter
In Search of Mozart (2006) UK  | Sam West / Frank Adams-Brown
I, Don Giovanni (2009); Italy, Spain; German, Italian  | Lino Guanciale
Mozart's Sister (2010); France; French  | David Moreau
Modest Mussorgsky | Song of My Heart (1948); USA  | Lewis Howard
Mussorgsky (1950); USSR; Russian  | Aleksandr Borisov
Josef Mysliveček | Il Boemo (2022); Czech Republic; Czech  | Vojtěch Dyk
Rikard Nordraak | Song of Norway (1970); USA  | Frank Porretta
Jacques Offenbach | The Empress and I (1933); Germany; German  | Julius Falkenstein
Moi et l'impératrice (1933); Germany, France; French  | Julius Falkenstein
The Only Girl (1933); Germany, UK  | Julius Falkenstein
Idol of Paris (1948); UK  | Miles Malleson
The Paris Waltz (1950); France; French  | Pierre Fresnay
The Eternal Waltz (1954); West Germany; German  | Arnulf Schröder
The Great Waltz (1972); USA  | Dominique Weber
Les folies Offenbach (TV miniseries, 1977–78); France; French  | Michel Serrault
Johann Strauss: The King Without a Crown [de] (1987), Austria  | Philippe Nicaud
Ignacy Jan Paderewski | Moonlight Sonata (1937); UK  | Himself
Niccolò Paganini | The House of Three Girls (1918); Germany; silent  | Raoul Lange
Paganini (1923); Germany; silent  | Conrad Veidt
Franz Schuberts letzte Liebe (1926); Austria; German  | Otto Schmöle
Fadette (1926); Germany; German  | Hanns Waschatko
La Symphonie fantastique (1942); France; French  | Maurice Schutz
Heavenly Music (1943); USA  | Fritz Feld
A Song to Remember (1945); USA  | Roxy Roth
The Magic Bow (1946); UK  | Stewart Granger
Housle a sen (1947); Czechoslovakia; Czech  | Karel Dostal
Bohemian Rapture (1948); Czechoslovakia; Czech  | Karel Dostal
Youth of Chopin (1952); Poland; Polish  | Franciszek Jamry
Spring Symphony (1983); West Germany; German  | Gidon Kremer
Paganini (1989; aka Kinski Paganini); Italy; Italian  | Klaus Kinski
Maria Theresia von Paradis | Mesmer (1994); Austria, Canada, UK, Germany (as Maria Theresa Paradies)  | Amanda Ooms
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi | Pergolesi (1932); Italy; Italian  | Elio Steiner
Ignaz Pleyel | Farewell Waltz (1934); Germany; German  | Paul Henckels
Nicola Porpora | Farinelli (1994); Italy, Belgium, France; French, Italian  | Omero Antonutti
Giacomo Puccini | Puccini (1953); Italy; Italian  | Gabriele Ferzetti
Casa Ricordi (1954); Italy; Italian  | Gabriele Ferzetti
Puccini (1984); UK  | Robert Stephens
Puccini e la fanciulla (2008); Italy; Italian  | Riccardo Moretti
Henry Purcell | England, My England (1995); UK  | Michael Ball
Sergei Rachmaninoff | Rhapsody in Blue (1945); USA  | Will Wright
Ya - aktrisa (1980); USSR; Russian  | Vladimir Korenev
Ellis Island (1984); USA  | Vernon Dobtcheff
The Child Prodigy (2010); Canada; French  | Itzhak Finzi
Maurice Ravel | Rhapsody in Blue (1945); USA  | Oscar Loraine
Nedovrsena simfonija (1998); Yugoslavia; Serbian  | Fedja Stojanovic
Ravel's Brain (2001); Canada; French, English  | Thierry Costa
Carl Reinecke | Song of Love (1947); USA (re-released in 1950 in a shorter version titled The Schumann Story, but the Reinecke character was cut out) | Konstantin Shayne
Ferdinand Ries | Eroica (2003); UK  | Leo Bill
Beethoven (2005: TV mini-series)  | Bertie Carvel
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov | Song of Scheherazade (1947); USA  | Jean-Pierre Aumont
Song of My Heart (1948); USA  | David Leonard
Mussorgsky (1950); USSR; Russian  | Andrei Popov
Rimsky-Korsakov (1952); USSR; Russian  | Grigori Belov
Juventino Rosas | Over the Waves (1950); Mexico, Spanish  | Pedro Infante
Gioachino Rossini | Fadette (1926); Germany; German  | Rudolf Klein-Rogge
Rossini (1942); Italy; Italian  | Nino Besozzi
Casa Ricordi (1954); Italy; Italian  | Roland Alexandre
Lisztomania (1975); UK  | Ken Parry
Rossini! Rossini! (1991); Italy; Italian  | Sergio Castellitto, Philippe Noiret
Rossini's Ghost (1996); Canada  | Joseph Di Mambro
Nikolai Rubinstein | Song of My Heart (1948); USA  | Lester Sharpe
Tchaikovsky (1969); USSR; Russian  | Vladislav Strzhelchik
The Music Lovers (1970); UK  | Max Adrian
Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe | Tous les Matins du Monde (1991); France; French  | Jean-Pierre Marielle
Antonio Salieri | Unfinished Symphony (1934); UK, Austria  | Cecil Humphreys
Eternal Melodies (1940), Italy, Italian  | Augusto Marcacci
Mozart (1955); Austria; German  | Albin Skoda
A Requiem for Mozart (1967); USSR; Russian  | Pyotr Glebov
Mozart (1982) TV series; France, Belgium, Canada, Italy, Switzerland; French  | Carlo Rivolta
Amadeus (1984); USA  | F. Murray Abraham
Forget Mozart (1985); West Germany, Czechoslovakia; German  | Winfried Glatzeder
I, Don Giovanni (2009); Italy, Spain; German, Italian  | Ennio Fantastichini
Erik Satie | La musique de l'amour: Chouchou (1995); France; French  | Sergei Zamorev
Arnold Schoenberg | Bride of the Wind (2001); UK, Germany, Austria  | Robert Herzl
Franz Schubert | The House of Three Girls (1918); Germany; silent  | Julius Spielmann
A Waltz by Strauss (1925); Austria; silent  | Philipp von Zeska
Franz Schuberts letzte Liebe (1926); Austria; German  | Philipp von Zeska
Seven Faces (1929); USA  | Paul Muni
Schubert's Dream of Spring (1931); Germany; German  | Carl Jöken
Gently My Songs Entreat (1933); Austria; German  | Hans Jaray
Blossom Time (1934); UK  | Richard Tauber
Unfinished Symphony (1934); UK, Austria  | Hans Jaray
Love Time (1934); USA  | Nils Asther
Three Girls for Schubert (1936); Germany; German  | Paul Hörbiger
Horch, horch, die Lerch im Ätherblau (1936); Germany; German  | Eduard Bornträger
Beethoven's Great Love (1937); France; French  | Dalméras
Serenade (1940); France; French  | Bernard Lancret
The Great Awakening (1941); USA  | Alan Curtis
It's Only Love (1947); Austria; German  | Franz Böheim
La Belle Meunière (1948); France; French  | Tino Rossi
Franz Schubert (1953); Austria; German  | Heinrich Schweiger
Symphony of Love (1956); France, Italy; Italian  | Claude Laydu
The House of Three Girls (1958); West Germany, Austria; German  | Karlheinz Böhm
Jomfruburet (1959); Denmark; Danish  | Hans Kurt
Du holde Kunst - Szenen um Lieder von Franz Schubert (1961); West Germany; German  | Kurt Heintel
Angeli senza paradiso (1970); Italy; Italian  | Albano
Leise flehen meine Lieder (1978); East Germany; German  | Christian Steyer, Jan Bitterlich
Mit meinen heißen Tränen (1986); Austria; German  | Udo Samel
The Temptation of Franz Schubert (1997); UK
(aka The Double Life of Franz Schubert)  | Simon Russell Beale
Schumann, Schubert und der Schnee (2006); Germany; German  | Ludwig Blochberger
Clara Schumann | Dreaming (1944); Germany; German  | Hilde Krahl
Song of Love (1947); USA (re-released in 1950 in a shorter version titled The Schumann Story) | Katharine Hepburn
Spring Symphony (1983); West Germany; German  | Nastassja Kinski
Der Fall des Robert Schumann (1990); West Germany; German  | Ricarda Weber, Lili Weber-Andreae
Inner Voices (2003); Canada  | Catherine Viau
Robert Schumann - Clara Wieck - Johannes Brahms (2006); Germany; German  | Elsa Hanewinkel
Schumann, Schubert und der Schnee (2006); Germany; German  | Elisabeth Trissenaar
Geliebte Clara (2008); Germany, France, Hungary; German  | Martina Gedeck
Robert Schumann | Dreaming (1944); Germany; German  | Mathias Wieman
Song of Love (1947); USA (re-released in 1950 in a shorter version titled The Schumann Story) | Paul Henreid
Spring Symphony (1983); West Germany; German  | Herbert Grönemeyer
Der Fall des Robert Schumann (1990); West Germany; German  | Jürgen Noll
Inner Voices (2003); Canada  | Sylvain Poirier
Robert Schumann - Clara Wieck - Johannes Brahms (2006); Germany; German  | Volker J. Ringe
Schumann, Schubert und der Schnee (2006); Germany; German  | Olaf Bär
Geliebte Clara (2008); Germany, France, Hungary; German  | Pascal Greggory
Richard M. Sherman | Saving Mr. Banks (2013); UK, Australia, USA  | Jason Schwartzman
Robert B. Sherman | Saving Mr. Banks (2013); UK, Australia, USA  | B. J. Novak
Dmitri Shostakovich | Testimony (1987); Denmark, Netherlands, Sweden, West Germany, UK  | Ben Kingsley
Jean Sibelius | Sibelius (2003); Finland; Finnish  | Martti Suosalo
John Philip Sousa | Stars and Stripes Forever (1952); USA  | Clifton Webb
Eduard Strauss I | The Eternal Waltz (1954); West Germany; German  | Eduard Strauss, Jr.
The Strauss Family (1972); UK  | Tony Anholt
Johann Strauss: The King Without a Crown [de] (1987), Austria  | Mathieu Carrière
The Strauss Dynasty (1991); UK  | Adrian Lukis
Strauss: The King of 3/4 Time (1995); Canada, Czech Republic  | Glen Peloso
Johann Strauss I | Waltzes from Vienna (1934); UK  | Edmund Gwenn
The Waltz King (1963); US  | Brian Aherne
The Great Waltz (1972); USA  | Nigel Patrick
The Strauss Family (1972); UK  | Eric Woofe
The Strauss Dynasty (1991); UK  | Anthony Higgins
Johann Strauss II | Rosen aus dem Süden (1934); Germany; German  | Paul Hörbiger
Waltzes from Vienna (1934); UK  | Esmond Knight
The Great Waltz (1938); USA  | Fernand Gravey
The Eternal Waltz (1954); West Germany; German  | Bernhard Wicki
The Waltz King (1963); US  | Kerwin Mathews
The Great Waltz (1972); USA  | Horst Buchholz
The Strauss Family (1972); UK  | Stuart Wilson
Farewell to St. Petersburg (1972); Soviet Union  | Girt Yakovlev
Johann Strauss: The King Without a Crown [de] (1987), Austria  | Oliver Tobias
The Strauss Dynasty (1991); UK  | Stephen McGann
Strauss: The King of 3/4 Time (1995); Canada, Czech Republic  | Michael Riley
Josef Strauss | The Eternal Waltz (1954); West Germany; German  | Josef Hendrichs
The Waltz King (1963); US  | Peter Kraus
The Great Waltz (1972); USA  | James Faulkner
The Strauss Family (1972); UK  | Louis Selwyn / Nikolas Simmonds
Strauss: The King of 3/4 Time (1995); Canada, Czech Republic  | Hamish McEwan
Richard Strauss | "Omnibus": Dance of the Seven Veils (1970); UK  | Christopher Gable
Bride of the Wind (2001); UK, Germany, Austria  | Hans Steunzer
Igor Stravinsky | Nijinsky (1980); USA  | Ronald Pickup
Dalí (1991); Spain, Bulgaria; Spanish  | Vasil Dimitrov
Riot at the Rite (2005); UK  | Aidan McArdle
Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky (2009); France; French, Russian, English  | Mads Mikkelsen
Soulima Stravinsky | Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky (2009); France; French, Russian, English  | Nikita Ponomarenko
Franz Xaver Süssmayr | Whom the Gods Love (1942); Germany, Austria; German  | Erich Nikowitz
Mozart (1982) TV series; France, Belgium, Canada, Italy, Switzerland; French  | Alexander Kerst
Thomas Tallis | The Tudors (2007); UK  | Joe Van Moyland
Giuseppe Tartini | Vivaldi (2013); USA, Belgium  | Alfred Molina
Carl Tausig | Wagner (1983); UK  | Otto Clemens
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | The Life and Loves of Tschaikovsky (1939); Germany; German  | Hans Stüwe
Heavenly Music (1943); USA  | Lionel Royce
Carnegie Hall (1947); USA  | Alfonso D'Artega
Song of My Heart (1948); USA  | Frank Sundström
Tchaikovsky (1969); USSR; Russian  | Innokenty Smoktunovsky
The Music Lovers (1970); UK  | Richard Chamberlain
Tchaikovsky: The Creation of Genius (2007); UK  | Ed Stoppard
Tchaikovsky: Fortune and Tragedy (2007); UK  | Ed Stoppard
The Concert (2009); France  | Mélanie Laurent
A Morte de Tchaikovsky (2009); Portugal; Portuguese  | José Eduardo
Tchaikovsky's Wife (2022); Russian  | Odin Biron
Sigismond Thalberg | Song Without End (1960); USA  | Erland Erlandsen
Giuseppe Verdi | Giuseppe Verdi (1938); Italy; Italian  | Fosco Giachetti
Verdi, the King of Melody (1953); Italy; Italian  | Pierre Cressoy
Casa Ricordi (1954); Italy; Italian  | Fosco Giachetti
The Life of Verdi (1982); Italy, France, UK, West Germany, Sweden; Italian  | Ronald Pickup
Pauline Viardot | La note bleue (1991); France, Germany; French  | Noemi Nadelmann
Heitor Villa-Lobos | Villa-Lobos: A Life of Passion (2000); Brazil; Portuguese  | Marcos Palmeira, Antônio Fagundes
Antonio Vivaldi | Red Venice [fr] (1989); France, Italy  | Wojciech Pszoniak
Antonio Vivaldi, a Prince in Venice [fr] (2006); France, Italy  | Stefano Dionisi
Vivaldi, the Red Priest (2009); UK, Italy  | Steven Cree
Richard Wagner
see also: List of films about Richard Wagner | Magic Fire (1955); USA  | Alan Badel
Song Without End (1960); USA  | Lyndon Brook
Ludwig (1972); Italy, France; Italian, French  | Trevor Howard
Lisztomania (1975); UK  | Paul Nicholas
Liszt Ferenc (1982); Hungary; Hungarian  | Tilo Prückner
Wagner (1983); UK  | Richard Burton
Wahnfried (1986); Germany, France; German, French  | Otto Sander
Bruckners Entscheidung (1995); Germany; German  | Joachim Kaiser
Peter Warlock | Voices (from a Locked Room) (1995); UK, USA  | Jeremy Northam, Benoît Langlais
Carl Maria von Weber | Whom the Gods Love: The Original Story of Mozart and His Wife (1936); UK  | Richard Goolden
Through the Forests and Through the Trees (1956); West Germany; German  | Peter Arens
Friedrich Wieck | Dreaming (1944); Germany; German  | Friedrich Kayßler
Song of Love (1947); USA (re-released in 1950 in a shorter version titled The Schumann Story, but the Friedrich Wieck character was cut out) | Leo G. Carroll
Spring Symphony (1983); West Germany; German  | Rolf Hoppe
Der Fall des Robert Schumann (1990); West Germany; German  | Edgar M. Böhlke
Hugo Wolf | Mahler (1974); UK  | David Collings
Paul Wranitzky | Eroica (2003); UK  | Peter Hanson
Alexander von Zemlinsky | Bride of the Wind (2001); UK, Germany, Austria  | Johannes Silberschneider
Mahler on the Couch (2010); Germany, Austria; German  | Mathias Franz Stein

## See also

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* Beethoven in film
* List of films using the music of Richard Wagner
* List of films about pianists
* List of composers in literature