Hans Erdmann e il dibattito sulla musica per il cinema muto nel giornalismo cinematografico di lingua tedesca

Throughout the 1920s, German-language film journalism addressed fundamental questions about the encounter between music and cinema. Prominent composers, musicologists, and film theorists contributed to this broad discussion on the proper role and design of silent film music, encompassing a wide range of arguments and perspectives. The essay outlines the development of the film-music debate on the film journal Reichsfilmblatt from 1924 to 1929 with a special focus on the dialectical interplay between theoretical concerns and compositional issues in Hans Erdmann’s film music criticism.