Leopold Stokowski(1882-1977)

Music Department
Actor
Soundtrack

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Fantasia 2000 (1999)

Flamboyant, latterly white-maned, U.S. conductor known best for his popularization of classical music. (He is also known for teaching 'Mickey Mouse' a few things about music in Walt Disney's Fantasia (1940), in which Stokowski was featured with the Philadelphia Orchestra). He was a pioneer in the use of hi-fi sound and bringing great music to the screen.

IMDbProStarmeter See rank

Won 1 Primetime Emmy
- 6 wins total

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Known for

Fantasia

7.7

Music Department(uncredited)

1940

One Hundred Men and a Girl

6.7

Music Department

1937

DOA: Dead or Alive

4.8

Soundtrack

2006

Fantasia 2000

7.1

Music Department(segment "Sorcerer's Apprentice, The")

1999

Credits

IMDbPro

Music Department

Fantasia 2000
7.1
- conductor (segment "Sorcerer's Apprentice, The")
- 1999
Omnibus
8.2
TV Series
- musical director (segment "Pictures at an Exhibition")
- 1952
Fantasia
7.7
- conductor
- arranger (uncredited)
- 1940
One Hundred Men and a Girl
6.7
- conductor
- 1937

Actor

Soundtrack

The Bear
8.5
TV Series
- performer: "Danse Macabre"
- 2024
Golda
6.0
- performer: "Dido and Aeneas, Act III: When I Am Laid in Earth, Dido's Lament"
- 2023
Nine Perfect Strangers
6.9
TV Series
- arranger: "Harpsichord Concerto in F Minor, BWV 1056: II. Largo" (uncredited)
- 2021
Ted K
6.0
- performer: "Piano Concerto No. 5: II. Adagio Un Poco Mosso"
- 2021
The Goldfinch
6.4
- performer: "Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major Op. 73 II. Adagio un poco mosso"
- 2019
Can You Keep a Secret?
5.4
- arranger: "Harpsichord Concerto in F Minor, BWV 1056: II. Largo"
- 2019
The Wild Pear Tree
8.0
- performer: "Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 582"
- 2018
Freedom
5.8
- arranger: "Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626, When I Am Laid in Earth, Dido's Lament"
- 2017
In Search of Perfect Consonance
7.8
Short
- arranger: "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor"
- 2016
Le Dernier Cigare
7.4
Short
- performer: "Nocturnes: No. 1. Nuages"
- 2015
Marguerite
6.9
- arranger: "Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565"
- 2015
Christmas, Again
6.7
- performer: "Danse Arab"
- 2014
Alive Inside: A Story of Music and Memory
8.2
- performer: "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43: Variation XVIII: Andante cantabile"
- 2014
The Nostalgia Critic
7.5
TV Series
- arranger: "A Night on Bald Mountain"
- performer: "A Night on Bald Mountain"
- 2013
The Great Beauty
7.7
- performer: "Symphony in C Major: II. Adagio"
- 2013

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Personal details

Born
- April 18, 1882
- Marylebone, London, England, UK
Died
- September 13, 1977
- Nether Wallop, Hampshire, England, UK(heart attack)
Spouses
Other works
Print ads for Stromberg-Carlson's Custom Four Hundred High Fidelity equipment.
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Did you know

Trivia
A chance meeting with Walt Disney at Chasen's resulted in the two men agreeing to have dinner together. Disney outlined his plans to do "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" and other projects combining classical music with animation. Disney was surprised when he responded with "I would like to conduct that for you". To have the prominent conductor volunteer for the project was an opportunity that Disney couldn't pass up. The project expanded into a number of shorts that would be combined into the "Concert Feature". While considering a number of better titles for the project, it was Stokowski himself who suggested the musical term "fantasia", which means "a musical composition without a strict form" - a perfect title for a film with music and no plot.