Joseph Carl Breil
American lyric tenor, stage director, composer and conductor
Joseph Carl Breil (29 June 1870 – 23 January 1926) was an American lyric tenor, stage director, composer and conductor. He was one of the earliest American composers to compose specific music for motion pictures. His first film was Les amours de la reine Élisabeth (1912) starring Sarah Bernhardt. He later composed and arranged scores for several other early motion pictures, including such epics as D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation (1915) and Intolerance (1916), as well as scoring the preview version of The Phantom of the Opera (1925), a score that is now lost. His love theme for "Birth of a Nation", titled "The Perfect Song", was published by Chappell & Co. in an arrangement for voice and keyboard. It was later used as the theme for the radio show Amos 'n' Andy.
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Works
- 2 1/2 Years Later; Flora Cameron
- Boys at Play
- Bringing the African to America; The Abolitionists; Austin Stoneman; Elsie Stoneman
- Cotton Fields (In the Gloaming); Love Strain
- Daybreak; The Cameron Family
- Election Day: Aftermath
- Flag of the Confederancy (Bonnie Blue Flag)
- In the Southland
- Lincoln's Assassination
- Rhapsodies of Love
- Ride of the Klansmen & Triumph
- Riot in Master's Hall; The Grim Reaping Begins
- Starting the Ferment
- Stoneman Library; Lydia Brown
- The Battle Between the States
- The Old South (Camptown Races)
- The Perfect Song