| Sumario: | The article reviews Ben Winters’s *Korngold in America: Music, Myth, and Hollywood*, which reexamines the legacy of composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897–1957) by integrating his film and concert music within twentieth-century music history. Winters challenges prevailing myths about Korngold’s contracts and artistic autonomy in Hollywood, using archival evidence to show that his film and concert works are interconnected rather than separate categories shaped by modernist biases. The book includes detailed case studies of Korngold’s film scores and explores his postwar concert compositions, arguing that critical reception was influenced by modernist anxieties about mass culture. While Winters’s extensive archival research and musical analyses offer valuable insights, the work’s complexity and occasional overemphasis on established distinctions may limit accessibility for casual readers.
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