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- Herbert Windt was born on September 15, 1894 in Senftenberg, Germany. He was a composer, known for Fährmann Maria (1936), G.P.U. (1942) and Nordlicht (1938). He was married to Friedel Bosch and Else. He died on November 23, 1965 in Munich, Bavaria, West Germany.
- SpousesFriedel Bosch(1921 - ?) (divorced)Else(? - November 22, 1965) (his death, 1 child)
- He wrote the opera "Andromache" but this work was no success. But luckily a producer of the UFA was one of the audience of the opera and he offered him to write the music for the movie "Morgenrot" (1933). After the music for the documentary "Natur als Schützerin im Kampf ums Dasein" (1932) it was his first feature movie.
- A grant by the government of the Weimar Republic led to his opera Andromache, which was first performed in 1932.
- Despite the warm reception for his music in Nazi party circles, Herbert Windt himself fell into disfavor with the rulers of Germany in that period.
- Herbert Windt became a demanded filmcomposer and he wrote the soundtrack to numerous productions in the next years. To his well-known works belong "Wilhelm Tell" (34), Leni Riefenstahl's "Triumph des Willens" (1935) and Leni Riefenstahl's masterpiece "Olympia" (1938).
- He continued his musical education after World War I at the university for music in Berlin.
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