If It Were Not for Music
Directed byCarmine Gallone
Written by
Starring
CinematographyReimar Kuntze
Edited byWaldemar Gaede
Music byAlois Melichar
Production
companies
Distributed byTobis Film
Release date
  • 26 September 1935 (1935-09-26)
Running time
89 minutes
CountryGermany
LanguageGerman

Wenn die Musik nicht wär (English: If It Were Not for Music)[1] is a 1935 German drama film directed by Carmine Gallone and starring Paul Hörbiger, Willi Schaeffers and Ida Wüst. The film was shot at the Grunewald Studios in Berlin.[2] It is based on the novel Der Kraft-Mayr by Ernst von Wolzogen. The film's art direction was by Fritz Maurischat and Karl Weber.[3]

Plot

Franz Liszt, renowned and influential, assists a piano instructor who is facing difficulties and lacks worldly experience. Liszt aids the tutor in securing a prestigious role in Munich while also protecting him from a malevolent foreign rival who seeks to win over the tutor's beloved.

Cast

References

  1. Wenn die Musik nicht wär (Live in Berlin), retrieved 2022-08-18
  2. Klaus p.201
  3. Sperber, André (2021-05-19). "Bücherfrühling – Wolfgang Molkow: Wenn die Musik nicht wär'". concerti.de (in German). Retrieved 2023-06-14.

Bibliography

  • Klaus, Ulrich J. Deutsche Tonfilme: Jahrgang 1933. Klaus-Archiv, 1988.


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