Joseph Carl Breil

Today Breil is remembered, if he is remembered at all, as a composer of film music. Breil was the first to compose a score specifically for a motion picture, Queen Elizabeth of 1912. He also brought a strong flavor of Hollywood dramatics to his operas, a characteristic not always welcome in the opera houses of his day.

• Orlando of Milan (c. 1888, amateur performance) [juvenelia]
• The Legend, opera in one act
  Libretto by Jaques Byrne.
  March 12, 1919, Metropolitan Opera, New York
• Der Asra, opera in one act
  Libretto by the composer after the poem by Heinrich Heine.
  November 24, 1925, Gamut Club Theater, Los Angeles, California

• Love Laughs at Locksmiths, operetta (1910)
• Prof. Tattle, operetta (1913)
• The Seventh Chord, operetta (1913)

Discography

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