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Herbert Windt
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Herbert Windt (September 15, 1894 - November 2, 1965) was a German composer.
He was a student of Franz Schreker and one of the most significant film score composers of the Third Reich along with Wolfgang Zeller, Michael Jary, Franz Grothe, and Georg Haentzschel. He was best known for his collaborations with the director Leni Riefenstahl: Triumph of the Will (1934/35), Olympia (1938), and Tiefland (1945/54), but he also worked with directors like Wolfgang Liebeneiner (Die Entlassung), Georg Wilhelm Papst (Paracelsus), Frank Wisbar (Die Unbekannte, Fährmann Maria, Hunde, wollt ihr ewig leben?), and Gustav Ucicky (Morgenrot). His film scores for propaganda films drew the attention of the sociologist Siegfried Kracauer, who analysed the composer's works in the tracts From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film and Theory of Film: The Redemption of Physical Reality.
- Cantata
- Andante religioso, eine Kammersinfonie nach sechs Sonatten (Wien: Universal-Edition, 1942)
- Opera
- Film scores:
- Morgenrot 1933
- Flüchtlinge 1933
- Der Sieg des Glaubens 1933
- Triumph des Willens 1934/35
- Die Unbekannte 1936
- Fährmann Maria 1936
- Olympia (film) 1938
- Pour le Mérite 1938
- Friedrich Schiller - Triumph eines Genies 1940
- Feldzug in Polen 1940
- Sieg im Westen 1941
- Die Entlassung 1942
- G.P.U. 1942
- Paracelsus 1943
- Besatzung Dora 1943
- Die Degenhardts 1944
- Tiefland 1954
- Hunde, wollt ihr ewig leben? 1958
- Im Namen einer Mutter 1960
Volker, Reimar. "Von oben sehr erwunscht" : die Filmmusik Herbert Windts im NS-Propagandafilm. Trier : WVT, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2003.
Walter, Michael. Die Musik des Olympiafilms von 1938. Acta Musicologica 62, no. 1 (Jan-Apr 1990): 82-113 .