
Biography
Giuseppe Becce (3 February 1877 – 5 October 1973) was an Italian-born film score composer who enriched the German cinema. Becce was born in Lonigo, province of Vicenza, Italy. He showed his musical talents early and was named the director of the student musical orchestra at the Padua University when he studied geography. In 1906 he moved to Germany and studied musical composition with Arthur Nikisch and Ferruccio Busoni. In the 1913 silent movie Richard Wagner, directed by Carl Froelich, Becce played the title role and wrote the accompanying music. He continued to write such music for a series of subsequent movies. A collection of these pieces, the so-called "Kinothek" was published between 1919 and 1933 by the Verlag Schlesinger'sche Buchhandlung in Berlin.
From 1915 to 1923, Becce was the director of the little orchestra of the Berlin Mozartsaal cinema, located upstairs at the Neues Schauspielhaus in the Nollendorfplatz. After World War I, he was named to direct the music department of the Decla-Bioscop AG and chief director of its movie orchestra, later to become the Universum Film AG (UFA) orchestra. He also worked at major movie theatres as director of the orchestras, among them the Ufa-Pavillon am Nollendorfplatz in 1921, the Tauentzien-Palast from 1923, and the Gloria Palast from 1926. In this position he worked with the famous directors of the German silent movie era, namely Fritz Lang, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Ernst Lubitsch, Ludwig Berger, Joe May and Berthold Viertel; he arranged and composed music for their movies. In 1920 Becce published the magazine Film-Ton-Kunst. In 1927 he published, together with Hans Erdmann and Ludwig Brav, the Allgemeines Handbuch der Filmmusik; it was based on his Kinothek, amongst other items, and enabled the pianist of silent movies to accompany movies in the generalized style and motifs of renowned composers.
With the arrival of sound movies Becce worked on musical movies and movies covering opera or operetta themes. He worked with Leni Riefenstahl, Luis Trenker, and Harald Reinl whose mountain films he scored. Becce was very prolific providing music to movies for more than four decades; he commonly mixed his own compositions with creations of other composers.
Becce died in Berlin and is buried in the cemetery of Friedhof Wilmersdorf, Berliner Straße.
Filmography
All 158
Movies 157
TV Shows 1
Self 1

Tartuffe: The Lost Film (2004)

The Power of the Past (2002)

Von Kastelruth nach Hollywood (1986)

Der Schäfer vom Trutzberg (1959)

Der Edelweißkönig (1957)

Der Jäger von Fall (1957)

Das Schweigen im Walde (1955)

Rotkäppchen (1954)

Hansel and Gretel (1954)

Ehestreik (1953)

Junges Herz voll Liebe (1953)

Der Herrgottschnitzer von Ammergau (1952)

Karneval in Weiß (1952)

Behind Monastery Walls (1952)

Straße zur Heimat (1952)

Nacht am Mont-Blanc (1951)

Was das Herz befiehlt (1951)

Gesetz ohne Gnade (1951)

Deutscher Filmpreis (1951)

Monte Miracolo (1949)

Bergkristall (1949)

Fahrt ins Abenteuer (1943)

Mit den Augen einer Frau (1942)

Viel Lärm um Nixi (1942)

The Jester's Supper (1942)

Orizzonte di sangue (1942)

Amore imperiale (1941)

Hunting in the South Seas (1940)

Der Feuerteufel (1940)

Frau im Strom (1939)

Salonwagen E 417 (1939)

Liebesbriefe aus dem Engadin (1938)

Le joueur (1938)

Der Spieler (1938)

The Mountain Calls (1938)

Giuochi nella schiuma (1938)

Die gelbe Flagge (1937)

Manja Valewska (1937)

Madame Bovary (1937)

The Voice of the Heart (1937)

Giovanni de Medici: The Leader (1937)

Die Stunde der Versuchung (1936)

The Emperor of California (1936)

Ein seltsamer Gast (1936)

Künstlerliebe (1935)

Wunder des Fliegens: Der Film eines deutschen Fliegers (1935)

Rêve éternel (1935)

Hundert Tage (1935)

Campo di Maggio (1935)

Der ewige Traum (1934)

Ich heirate meine Frau (1934)

The Prodigal Son (1934)

La canzone del sole (1934)

Das Lied der Sonne (1933)

Counsellor at Law (1933)

Hans Westmar (1933)

Der Läufer von Marathon (1933)

Ecstasy (1933)

The Rebel (1932)

Love in speed (1932)

The Doomed Battalion (1932)

The four from Bob 13 (1932)

The Blue Light (1932)

Three Gentlemen (1932)

The Burning Mountains (1931)

Mountains on Fire (1931)

Between Night and Dawn (1931)

Fra Diavolo (1931)

Two standards (1931)

The Knights of the Mountain (1930)

Old Song (1930)

The Son of the White Mountain (1930)

Scandalous Eva (1930)

The Second Kiss (1930)

Kirmes in Hollywood (1930)

White Hell of Pitz Palu (1929)

The Woman Men Yearn For (1929)

The Burning Heart (1929)

Fight of the Tertia (1929)

Die Siebzehnjährigen (1929)

Die drei Frauen von Urban Hell (1928)

Der Ring der Bajadere (1928)

The Secret Courier (1928)

Unfug der Liebe (1928)

The Last Night (1928)

Leontines Ehemänner (1928)

A Woman with Style (1928)

Die geheime Macht (1928)

Lady Juan (1928)

Die Leibeigenen (1928)

Apaches of Paris (1927)

The Masked Mannequin (1927)

Heaven on Earth (1927)

The Cat's Bridge (1927)

Hotel Imperial (1927)

Die Abenteuer eines Zehnmarkscheines (1926)

Kubinke, der Barbier, und die drei Dienstmädchen (1926)

The People among Us (1926)

Secrets of a Soul (1926)

The Last Horse Carriage in Berlin (1926)

Impetuous Youth (1926)

Tartuffe (1926)

Die da unten (1926)

Schatten der Weltstadt (1925)

Ways to Strength and Beauty (1925)

Pietro der Korsar (1925)

Schicksal (1925)

The Last Laugh (1924)

Comedy of the Heart (1924)

Die Andere (1924)

Decameron Nights (1924)

Die Buddenbrooks (1923)

Downfall (1923)

The Stone Rider (1923)

Destiny (1921)

Im Kampf mit dem Berge 1.Teil (1921)

Die Geierwally (1921)

Shattered (1921)

Hamlet (1921)

Christian Wahnschaffe I: Weltbrand (1920)

Die goldene Krone (1920)

Kohlhiesel's Daughters (1920)

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)

Monika Vogelsang (1920)

Rose Bernd (1919)

Die Rache des Titanen (1919)

Die beiden Gatten der Frau Ruth (1919)

Her Sport (1919)

The Game of Love and Death (1919)

Irrungen (1919)

Der Wilderer (1919)

Die Dame, der Teufel und die Probiermamsell (1918)

Die blaue Laterne (1918)

Die Heimkehr des Odysseus (1918)

Die blaue Mauritius (1918)

Die Sieger (1918)

Clown Charly (1918)

Dr. Schotte (1918)

Vater und Sohn (1918)

Der Prozeß Hauers (1918)

Agnes Arnau und ihre drei Freier (1918)

Das Geschlecht derer von Ringwall (1918)

Auf Probe gestellt (1918)

Countess Kitchenmaid (1918)

The Giant's Fist (1917)

Gefangene Seele (1917)

Die Prinzessin von Neutralien (1917)

Der Liebesbrief der Königin (1917)

Der standhafte Benjamin (1917)

Die Ehe der Luise Rohrbach (1917)

Lehmann's Honeymoon (1916)

Das wandernde Licht (1916)

Der Schirm mit dem Schwan (1916)

Frau Eva (1916)

The Queen's Secretary (1916)

The Man in the Mirror (1916)

Es fiel ein Reif in der Frühlingsnacht (1915)

The Life and Works of Richard Wagner (1913)
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Known forSound
GenderMale
Birthday1877-02-03
Deathday1973-10-05 (96 years old)
Place of birthLonigo, Italy
CitizenshipsKingdom of Italy, Italy
Also known asPeter Becker, G. Becce, Dr. Bechstein, Dr. Giuseppe Becce, Dr. Guiseppe Becce
AwardsCross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
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