Joseph Carl Breil, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Joseph Carl Breil

American lyric tenor, stage director, composer and conductor

Date of Birth: 29-Jun-1870

Place of Birth: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Date of Death: 23-Jan-1926

Profession: composer, singer, film score composer, opera singer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

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 and Andy".