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MUSIC FOR SILENT FILMSFor more than 15 years Thomas Köner has been writing music for silent films, following a first commission by the Auditorium of the Musée du Louvre in 1994. The music is usually performed live during the projection of the film.
LightCone commissioned him a soundtrack for THE SEASHELL AND THE CLERGYMAN by Germaine Dulac. It was later released as a DVD and is available: here
Jiraya, heros sacre (S Makino, Jap., 1921) Faust (F. W. Murnau, D, 1926) La Vie et la Passion de Jesus-Christ (L. Nonguet, F, 1907) Der Golem (P. Wegener, D) 90 South (Frank Hurley, GB, 1914-17) Our Sun in Action (Evans/Dunn, US, 1956) La Perse (Geo Keller, F, 1938) Les Voyages de Miss Isobel Hutchinson (GB, 1935) Dante nella vita e nei tempi suoi (Domenico Gaido, I, 1922) Le Couronnement du roi Pierre Ier de Serbie (1904) Masken und Stelzentänze der Gbande, Liberia (D, 1929,) Le Couronnement de Nicolas II (F, 1896,) Arrivée de la dépouille du roi de Grècè à Athènes (F, Gaumont, 1912)
*commissioned by the Musée d'Orsay, Paris*:
- Der Müde Tod (Destiny) (Fritz Lang 1921) - Coeur fidèle (Jean Epstein 1923) - Femme de nulle part (Louis Delluc, 1922) - La mère (Vsevolod Poudovkine, 1926) - L'oeil de verre (Lili Brik, V. Jemtchoujny, 1930) - The Son of the Sheik (G. Fitzmaurice, 1926) - L'Atlantide (Jacques Feyder, 1921) - Hara-Kiri (Marie-Louise Iribe, 1928)
- Nanook of the North ( R. Flaherty 1922 )
*commissioned by Bienal de Performance, Santiago de Chile* :
- El Husar de la Muerte (P. Sienna, 1925)
*commissioned by the Centre Pompidou, Paris*:
- Symphonie de la foret vierge / Urwaldsymphonie (Bauer-Adamara, 1931) *curated by the Centre Pompidou, Paris* (live performance @ Museum Ludwig, Cologne): - La chute de la Maison Usher (Jean Epstein & Luis Bunuel, F, 1928)
MUSIC FOR SILENT FILMSFor more than 15 years Thomas Köner has been writing music for silent films, following a first commission by the Auditorium of the Musée du Louvre in 1994. The music is usually performed live during the projection of the film.
LightCone commissioned him a soundtrack for THE SEASHELL AND THE CLERGYMAN by Germaine Dulac. It was later released as a DVD and is available: here
Jiraya, heros sacre (S Makino, Jap., 1921) Faust (F. W. Murnau, D, 1926) La Vie et la Passion de Jesus-Christ (L. Nonguet, F, 1907) Der Golem (P. Wegener, D) 90 South (Frank Hurley, GB, 1914-17) Our Sun in Action (Evans/Dunn, US, 1956) La Perse (Geo Keller, F, 1938) Les Voyages de Miss Isobel Hutchinson (GB, 1935) Dante nella vita e nei tempi suoi (Domenico Gaido, I, 1922) Le Couronnement du roi Pierre Ier de Serbie (1904) Masken und Stelzentänze der Gbande, Liberia (D, 1929,) Le Couronnement de Nicolas II (F, 1896,) Arrivée de la dépouille du roi de Grècè à Athènes (F, Gaumont, 1912)
*commissioned by the Musée d'Orsay, Paris*:
- Der Müde Tod (Destiny) (Fritz Lang 1921) - Coeur fidèle (Jean Epstein 1923) - Femme de nulle part (Louis Delluc, 1922) - La mère (Vsevolod Poudovkine, 1926) - L'oeil de verre (Lili Brik, V. Jemtchoujny, 1930) - The Son of the Sheik (G. Fitzmaurice, 1926) - L'Atlantide (Jacques Feyder, 1921) - Hara-Kiri (Marie-Louise Iribe, 1928)
- Nanook of the North ( R. Flaherty 1922 )
*commissioned by Bienal de Performance, Santiago de Chile* :
- El Husar de la Muerte (P. Sienna, 1925)
*commissioned by the Centre Pompidou, Paris*:
- Symphonie de la foret vierge / Urwaldsymphonie (Bauer-Adamara, 1931) *curated by the Centre Pompidou, Paris* (live performance @ Museum Ludwig, Cologne): - La chute de la Maison Usher (Jean Epstein & Luis Bunuel, F, 1928)
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