Bernard Herrmann

composition, conductor · 1911–1975 · New York

Composer and conductor trained at NYU and the Juilliard School, he wrote his first film score for "Citizen Kane" (1941), then nine scores for Hitchcock, including "Vertigo" and "Psycho". "Taxi Driver", completed the day before his death, is his first largely jazz score.

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Styles

• Jazz in film and on screen

Landmark tracks

• Theme from Taxi Driver (1976)

Sources

• Source

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