Biography
Bernard Herrmann was an American composer and conductor. He was born Max Herman on 29 June 1911 in New York City and died on 24 December 1975.
Herrmann composed the score for Orson Welles’s Citizen Kane (1941). He won an Academy Award for his score for The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941, later retitled All That Money Can Buy). He collaborated frequently with Alfred Hitchcock, composing for Vertigo (1958), North by Northwest (1959), Psycho (1960) and The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956). Other notable scores include The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), Marnie (1964) and Taxi Driver (1976). His music was also used in the 2026 Cape Fear series.
