Pianist/Composer Movies

Impromptu (Frederic Chopin)
Chopin- Desire for Love
Beethoven Lives Upstairs (for kids but good!)

The Music Lovers
Song of Norway
Song of Love

I'm sure there are others............

Testimony (Shostakovich)
Enigma (Sviatoslav Richter - not really a movie, yet not really a doco)

Pianist and composers, or pianists or composers?


32 Short Films About Glenn Gould
Sazeneh (film short)
Composer Meets Quartet (Herman D. Koppel & Cantilena Quartet)
Leonard Bernstein: Reaching for the Note
DeLovely
Mahler
Song Without End (Liszt)
Sibelius
Polish Requiem (Penderecki)
Igor Stravinsky: Composer (tv)
Elgar: Fantasy of a Composer on a Bicycle (tv)
Basil Poledouris: His Life and Music
Georges Bizet, Composer of Carmen - 1938
Villa-Lobos - Uma Vida de Paixão

Rhapsody in Blue (Robert Alda as George Gershwin)
Humoresque (a violin movie, but plenty of piano)
Night and Day (Cary Grant as Cole Porter)
DeLovely (Kevin Kline as Cole Porter)
Intermezzo (Ingrid Bergman as a pianist)
Lisztomania

If you're looking for a hilarious comedy about a pianist, watch The World of Henry Orient, with Peter Sellers. Though the title is about his character in the movie, it's really about two teenage girls that have a crush on an avant-garde classical pianist. Peter Sellers is absolutely hilarious. Even if you don't watch the whole movie, the concert scene where he plays the modern piece is so funny that I almost hurt myself. The scene is a must see, though some serious classical musicians may find it a touch irreverent.

What about Carlo Gesualdo. Not a pianist but a cool as composer. and kinda crazy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Gesualdo

Did anyone mention RHAPSODY starring Elizabeth Taylor, Vittorio Gassman, and John Ericson? Story is about a violinist and a pianist.