Frank Scheffer

Quick Facts

Full Name	Frank Scheffer
Occupation	Film Producer
Date Of Birth	Mar 19, 1956(1956-03-19)
Age	68
Birthplace	Venlo
Country	Netherlands
Birth City	Limburg
Horoscope	Pisces

Frank Scheffer Biography

Frank Scheffer is one of the most popular and richest Film Producer who was born on March 19, 1956 in Venlo, Limburg, Netherlands. Frank Scheffer (born 1956 in Venlo) is a Dutch cinematographer and director of documentary films popular for his work in Conducting Mahler (1996) at the 1995 Mahler Festival at Amsterdam together with Claudio Abbado, Riccardo Chailly, Riccardo Muti and Simon Rattle.

In 1999, Scheffer produced in 1999 Music for Airports, a video about Brian Eno’s music that has the same title as composed with Bang on a Can founders Julia Wolfe, Michael Gordon, David Lang and Evan Ziporyn. The expansive In the Ocean (2001) which is set in the present, focusing on New York composers, features Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Elliott Carter, John Cage, Brian Eno and the Bang on a Can founders.

Scheffer is also working on several in depth films on specific composers — The Present Day Composer Refuses to Die on Frank Zappa, in cooperation with the Zappa Family Trust (2000, featuring The Mothers of Invention, Pierre Boulez and Ensemble Modern), and the 90-minute Zappa feature Phaze II, The Big Note (2002), to be followed by a third film which will complete his Zappa trilogy. Scheffer has been following and filming Elliott Carter for 25 years; this culminated in A Labyrinth of Time (2005), a portrait on the composer as well as a view of the history of modernism in the 20th century. In 2005 Scheffer also finished a feature-length documentary on the Tea-Opera composed by Tan Dun, with Pierre Audi (Director) and Xiu Ying(libretto), Tea. This film had its world premiere in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In 2006 a retrospective of his work and a Docu-Concert was exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Scheffer’s films on music constitute an overview of the great composers of the 20th century — from Conducting Mahler (1996) on the 1995 Mahler Festival in Amsterdam with Claudio Abbado, Riccardo Chailly, Riccardo Muti and Simon Rattle to Five Orchestral Pieces (1994) on Arnold Schönberg’s work conducted by Michael Gielen and The Final Chorale (1990) on Igor Stravinsky’s Symphonies of Wind Instruments conducted by Reinbert de Leeuw.

The development of Electronic Music, from Stockhausen to DJ Spooky and Squarepusher is the theme of the Sonic Acts film in (1998). The film is followed by 3 different projects exploring the role of digital technology in music and film: Sonic Images (1998), Sonic Fragments / The Poetics of Digital Fragmentation (1999) and Sonic Genetics (2000).

Frank Scheffer Net Worth

Frank Scheffer is one of the richest Film Producer from Netherlands. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Frank Scheffer 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Films from earlier times comprise Zoetrope People (1982), the documentary about Francis Ford Coppola and his studio that he co-created with Wim Wenders Tom Waits, Vittorio Storaro and more in addition to documentary films on the Dalai Lama and various socio/cultural topics. In 1985, he produced the video A Day for the band XYMOX on the 4AD Records label, leading to musical topics. 1987 saw the release of his short films that were experimental in nature Wagner’s Ring, a distillation of The Ring in 3’50” made by John Cage; and Stoperas 1/2, which was designed to be screened alongside the Cage’s Europeras 1 & 2. Collaborations with Cage continued with the concept movie Chessfilmnoise (1988) which was which was a documentary about Cage along with Elliott Carter Time Is Music (1988) and From Zero (1995) in collaboration with Andrew Culver.

Additional documentaries feature films on Louis Andriessen (The Road, 1997 and conducted by Peter Eotvos), Luciano Berio (Voyage to Cythera from 1999 on his Sinfonia with the composer conducting), Pierre Boulez (Eclat 1993) as well (Helikopter String Quartet the year 1996) featuring Karlheinz Stockhausen and the Arditti Quartet.

A documentary on the Tehran Philharmonic Orchestra and its chief conductor, the Iranian composer Nader Mashayekhi with the title To Be And Not To Be was premiered at the doku-arts festival June 2009. A feature-length documentary on composer Edgard Varèse with the title The One All Alone was selected for the 2009 Venice Film Festival. In 2010 he finished Eastern Voices featuring a.o. Syrian musician Ibrahim Keivo and one of the finest voices in the world today the Aserbajanian singer Alim Qasimov. It won the German Record Critics’ Award 2011 (Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik) for the DVD in Germany. A feature-length documentary on the Iranian composer Nader Mashayekhi, Gozaran / Time Passing. In 2011 Gozaran / Time Passing was selected for the international competition of the IDFA (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam). To celebrate the 100th birthday of John Cage in 2012, he made an experimental film called Ryoanji and re-edited the film material shot in 1987 with the title: How To Get Out Of The Cage (A year with John Cage). It won again the German Record Critics’ Award 2012 (Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik). He is currently shooting a documentary on the Chinese composer Guo Wenjing and the Sichuan opera. In the future dramatic features based on Die Zauberflöte composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the parallel lives of Gustav Mahler and Arnold Schönberg, are planned.

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Frank Ranked on the list of most popular Film Producer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Netherlands. Frank Scheffer celebrates birthday on March 19 of every year.