Adolphe Borchard (1882–1967) was a French pianist and composer who worked on a number of film scores during the 1930s and 1940s including large-budget films such as Ultimatum (1938).[1] IMDb credits at least 19 films. He has several music students. The Vietnamese composer Nguyễn Văn Quỳ is one of them and studied through distance education between 1953 and 1954.[2]
Adolphe Borchard | |
|---|---|
| Born | 30 June 1882 |
| Died | 13 December 1967 Paris, France |
| Occupation(s) | Composer, Pianist |
| Years active | 1931 - 1943 (film scores) |
| Family | unmarried |
Borchard can be seen playing the piano in the first scene of Sacha Guitry's Confessions of a Cheat (1936) (French title: Le Roman d'un Tricheur), where he is introduced by the narrator. He also appeared in the same director's Quadrille two years later.
Selected filmography
edit- A Dog That Pays Off (1932)
- A Telephone Call (1932)
- The Red Robe (1933)
- The Invisible Woman (1933)
- Prince Jean (1934)
- Confessions of a Cheat (1936)
- Désiré (1937)
- Quadrille (1938)
- Ultimatum (1938)
- White Nights in Saint Petersburg (1938)
- Nine Bachelors (1939)
- Tornavara (1943)
- Jeannou (1943)
References
edit- ^ Jung & Schatzberg p.223
- ^ Nguyễn, Trâm (7 July 2011). Nguyen Van Quy - A Biography. Hanoi: Nguyễn Trâm. p. 23. Retrieved 23 October 2016.
Bibliography
edit- Jung, Uli & Schatzberg, Walter. Beyond Caligari: The Films of Robert Wiene. Berghahn Books, 1999.
- Nichols, Roger. The Harlequin Years: Music in Paris, 1917 - 1929. University of California Press, 2002.
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