Alois Melichar

Alois Melichar (18 April 1896, in Vienna – 9 April 1976, in Munich) was an Austrian conductor, music critic, film music composer, and arranger. He was a student of Joseph Marx at the Vienna Academy of Music, then of Franz Schreker at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin, but later became increasingly culturally conservative. He composed music for several films during the Nazi period. After World War II Melichar became increasingly polemic in his attacks on modern music. His pamphlets include Die unteilbare Musik ("Indivisible music" 1952), Musik in der Zwangsjacke ("Music in the Straitjacket" 1958), and Schönberg und die Folgen ("Schoenberg and his Consequences" 1960).

Selected filmography

• Court Waltzes (1933)
• Night in May (1934)
• The Young Baron Neuhaus (1934)
• Forget Me Not (1935)
• The Private Life of Louis XIV (1935)
• If It Were Not for Music (1935)
• The Girl Irene (1936)
• The Beggar Student (1936)
• Land of Love (1937)
• Nanon (1938)
• Capriccio (1938)
• Maria Ilona (1939)
• Immortal Waltz (1939)
• Falstaff in Vienna (1940)
• The Girl from Barnhelm (1940)
• The Girl from Fano (1941)
• Riding for Germany (1941)
• Attack on Baku (1942)
• Anni (1948)
• Ulli and Marei (1948)
• Two Times Lotte (1950)
• Dreaming Lips (1953)
• Love is Forever (1954)