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Dominican Rep. Fortunes of a Composer (S)
- Original title
- Fortunes of a Composer
- Year
- 1912
- Running time
- 14 min.
- Country
United States- Director
- Cast
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- Producer
Vitagraph Company of America. Distributor: General Film Company- Genre
- Drama | Short Film. Silent Film. Music
- Synopsis
- Samuel Herman, a composer, in seeking recognition for fame and fortune, goes to Paris and takes a position in a small music hall, playing there at night and writing music during the day. His compositions do not find a market and disappointed and disheartened, he sends them to his wife and daughters in America, to be disposed of by them if possible. He loses his memory through an attack of aphasia. His wife and daughters dispose of his compositions for $100,000. They send word to their father to the address which he had given them, but no one knows what has become of him and so the letter is returned unclaimed with a report that the professor is dead. Two years afterwards Herman's memory returns when he hears his music played upon the street and he determines, after he has fully recovered, to return to America. He goes to his old home and is told by the janitor that his family has moved away when they become rich. He makes his way to the opera house where one of his operas is...
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