Harry Sukman recorded ten of the Liszt compositions featured in the film.Įight of those selections were adaptations by Harry Sukman composed especially for the album. The Franz Liszt Story featured the piano and orchestra of Harry Sukman. Orchestral selections included four selections from the film's repertoire, and two selections reminded listeners of Liszt's organ virtuosity (uncredited performer.accompanied by "The Song Without End" chorus). The Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra was conducted by Morris Stoloff. Colpix Records, a division of Columbia Pictures released Song Without End: Original Soundtrack Recording featuring the pianist Jorge Bolet playing seven of Franz Liszt's compositions. Two notable soundtracks were recorded in 1960, one by each of the composers of the Oscar-winning score.
The recording of the music (by Earl Mounce) was completed before the start of production so that Bogarde could learn the finger movements necessary to make him appear to be playing the piano realistically in the film. Musicologist Abram Chasins was a musical consultant on the film. Harry Sukman was in charge of the music editing and adaptations that were required for the musical score. After selecting the pieces to be played, he engaged piano virtuoso Jorge Bolet, the Roger Wagner Chorale and the Los Angeles Philharmonic to perform the score. Charles Vidor, who previously directed A Song to Remember (1945), a biopic of Frédéric Chopin, was assigned to direct using elements of all three screenwriters' scripts.Īs nearly 40 musical selections were heard in the film, Morris Stoloff, head of Columbia's music department, began immediate work on the soundtrack. In 1958, veteran producer William Goetz took over the project with Oscar Millard as his screenwriter. When the studio delayed going forward with the project due to production and casting issues for three years, Oscar Saul backed out, and Columbia announced in 1955 that Gottfried Reinhardt had been commissioned to write a new screenplay. Studio head Harry Cohn hired his friend, acclaimed screenwriter Oscar Saul ( A Streetcar Named Desire), to produce his own original screenplay with William Dieterle set to direct.
The film stars Dirk Bogarde as Liszt, Capucine (in her acting debut) as Princess Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, and Geneviève Page as Marie d'Agoult, with Patricia Morison as George Sand, Alexander Davion as Frédéric Chopin, Lyndon Brook as Richard Wagner, Albert Rueprecht as Prince Felix Lichnowsky, Erland Erlandsen as Sigismond Thalberg, Ivan Desny, Martita Hunt, Lou Jacobi, and Marcel Dalio.Ĭolumbia Pictures had plans to film The Franz Liszt Story back in 1952. The film also features music of those contemporaries of Liszt whom he unselfishly championed by featuring them in his numerous performances (e.g., Richard Wagner, Hector Berlioz, among others).
The music score was by Morris Stoloff and Harry Sukman with music by Franz Liszt, and the cinematography by James Wong Howe and Charles Lang (uncredited). It was produced by William Goetz from a screenplay by Oscar Millard, revised (uncredited) by Walter Bernstein and based on screenwriter Oscar Saul's original 1952 script (uncredited).
It was directed by Charles Vidor, who died during the shooting of the film and was replaced by George Cukor. Song Without End, subtitled The Story of Franz Liszt, is a 1960 biographical film romance made by Columbia Pictures.
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