- From the middle of the 30's he concentrated completely to the film business.
- After the war he normally worked for the DEFA where he was able to prove again his abilities as a highly gifted filmcomposer.
- Zeller was the son of a vicar.
- After graduating from high school in Potsdam, Zeller continued studies with violinist Felix Berger in Munich, and with composer Jean Paul Ertel, in Berlin.
- Between 1921 and 1929 he was violinist and in-house composer for the Berlin Volksbühne orchestra.
- Zeller fought in the First World War. After being discharged from duty due to an injury, he made a living as a violinist with the Deutsches Opernhaus.
- To his most popular production of those years belong "Der alte und der junge König" (1935), "Der zerbrochene Krug" (1937), "Fahrendes Volk" (1938), "Jud Süss" (1940), "Andreas Schlüter" (1942), "Immensee" (1943) and "Der verzauberte Tag" (1944).
- When the sound film replaced the silent movies, the role of a filmcomposer became a very important part in the production of a movie. Wolfgang Zeller soon turned out to be an inspired composer who knew how to dive into the different movies and slip the essential in his music.
- Zeller was a German composer noted for his complex film music.
- The filmcomposer Wolfgang Zeller counted to the most important composers in the period of the National Socialism.
- He began his impressive career after World War I as a conductor of the orchestra of the German opera house and the Volksbühne in Berlin.
- Till the end of war he created fantastic music which he put into service of the movies, also to some propaganda movies which was nearly impossible to avoid in this time.
- His film music career was launched with the orchestral score he composed for The Adventures of Prince Achmed (the oldest surviving animated feature film).
- In the 20's followed compositions for different plays and in 1926 he composed his first music for a movie - Lotte Reiniger's silhouette movie "Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed" (1926).
- As a child, he studied violin and showed an aptitude for composition.
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