Erich Wolfgang Korngold has been played on NTS in shows including Tafelmusik w/ Francesco Fusaro, featured first on 12 March 2018. Songs played include Sterbelied Op. 14 No. 1.

Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957) was a composer of operas, songs, orchestral works, and film scores.

Korngold was born on 29th May 1897 in a Jewish home in Brünn (Brno), Austria–Hungary, now the Czech Republic. He was the second son of the eminent music critic Julius Korngold. A child prodigy, Erich played his cantata Gold to Gustav Mahler in 1906; Mahler called him a "musical genius", and recommended study with the composer Alexander von Zemlinsky. At the…