Walter Goehr(1903-1960)

Composer
Music Department
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Walter Goehr was born on 28 May 1903 in Berlin, Germany. He was a composer, known for Les grandes espérances (1946), Une question de vie ou de mort (1946) and Voyage au-delà des vivants (1954). He died on 4 December 1960 in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, UK.

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Jean Simmons, Finlay Currie, Valerie Hobson, Martita Hunt, John Mills, and Tony Wager in Les grandes espérances (1946)

Les grandes espérances

7.8

Composer

1946

David Niven and Kim Hunter in Une question de vie ou de mort (1946)

Une question de vie ou de mort

8.0

Music Department

1946

Voyage au-delà des vivants (1954)

Voyage au-delà des vivants

6.1

Composer

1954

Wendy Hiller and Roger Livesey in Je sais où je vais (1945)

Je sais où je vais

7.4

Music Department

1945

Credits

Composer

Voyage au-delà des vivants
6.1
- Composer
- 1954
I'll Get You for This
5.9
- Composer
- 1951
Stop Press Girl
6.2
- Composer
- 1949
Les grandes espérances
7.8
- Composer
- 1946
Spellbound
5.4
- Composer (as George Walter)
- 1941
The Ghost Train
6.1
- Composer (uncredited)
- 1941
For Freedom
5.6
- Composer (uncredited)
- 1940
What a Man!
- Composer (as George Walter)
- 1939
Brief Ecstasy
6.3
- Composer (as George Walter)
- 1937
Secret Lives
6.1
- Composer
- 1937
The Amateur Gentleman
6.0
- Composer (musical score)
- 1936
Le rapide 713
Short
- Composer
- 1935
Princesse Tam-Tam
6.3
- Composer (as Goehr)
- 1935
Invitation to the Waltz
5.9
- Composer
- 1935
David Golder
7.0
- Composer
- 1931

Music Department

Salome
TV Movie
- conductor
- 1957
Voyage au-delà des vivants
6.1
- conductor
- 1954
I'll Get You for This
5.9
- conductor
- 1951
Stop Press Girl
6.2
- conductor
- music arranger
- 1949
Les grandes espérances
7.8
- conductor
- 1946
Une question de vie ou de mort
8.0
- conductor
- 1946
The Queen of Spades
TV Movie
- orchestra conducted by
- 1946
Je sais où je vais
7.4
- conductor
- 1945
A Canterbury Tale
7.3
- conductor
- 1944
The Volunteer
6.0
- conductor
- 1944
For Freedom
5.6
- music arranger (as George Walter)
- 1940
Brief Ecstasy
6.3
- musical director (uncredited)
- 1937
The Amateur Gentleman
6.0
- musical director (uncredited)
- 1936
Invitation to the Waltz
5.9
- music arranger (as G. Walter Goehr)
- 1935
Les yeux noirs
7.3
- conductor
- 1935

Soundtrack

Personal details

Alternative names
- G. Walter Goehr
Born
- May 28, 1903
- Berlin, Germany
Died
- December 4, 1960
- Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, UK

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Twentieth-century conductor and composer who made many recordings of standard works in the classical repertoire, with several of the top classical artists of the time as soloists.

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