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Who were the other "true" or giant composers who wrote music score for movies? Sorry for using that label, simply for the lack of a better one. Besides Prokofiev, I could think of Bernstein, although his status in that category is somewhat shaky.Any other giants?
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His score for Scott of the Antarctic became his Symphony #7, the Sinfonia Anartica. VW wrote about other movie scores as well.I like Previn's dramatic reading of the #7, along with Sir Ralph Richardson's narrative (which is frequently left off the recording).
Victor,Arnold Bax was a very refined English composer (about 1880 to 1950) who wrote quite a bit for movies- I think the 40's "Oliver Twist" is his most famous score. He also had an odd acting role of a film composer who obsessively watches a movie iwth his music and falls in love with the cinema usher.
I don't know if it was Bax that wrote the music for "Hobson's Choice", but that guy should get a medal too! One of the best music scores in all of movies.
"The Third Man" is another great one- perfect music for the photography!
There were two Bernsteins in the movies- Leonard, who of course did "West Side Story" and, Elmer, who wrote I think was no relation and only for the movies. Elmer B. died recently- perhaps a year ago.
If you listen to Jim Svedja, he would include Korngold among illustrious movie composers, and Korngold is above average in the movie realm.
But, I would have to say hyberbolically that Prokofiev was the "greatest" composer who also wrote for the movies. Of course, it possible to claim that he was also the grestest composer of the 20th Century as well!
Only save us from any more tedious hours of discount Wagnerian pastichemeister John Williams and one-note goopshoveler James Horner!
Cheers,
Bambi B
***Of course, it possible to claim that he was also the grestest composer of the 20th Century as well!He is definitely a strong contender to that title, but the competition there is stiff - mainly from his countryman Shostakovich.
Most notably "The Gadfly", but also composed numerous other scores for full length and shorts.
...student of d'Indy...became quite a prolific writer for films as I recall. Auric composed scores for Cocteau's Orphee and Beauty & The Beast; several Dassin films including Rififi; the excellent (if little seen) British film Queen of Spades; plus The Innocents, Roman Holiday and a bunch more I can't recall because I don't have them handy on DVD to reference, lol).Others off the top of my head...
Corigliano - The Red ViolinWalton - Henry V, Hamlet, As You Like It
Thompson - The Plow That Broke The Plains
Copland - The Red Pony, Our Town
Although he's more a composer of song and opera and best known as a conductor, Andre Previn wrote movie scaores during his Hollywood days.
There's gotta be quite a few more that wrote maybe one or two scores to pay the bills or for a lark.
If I were a filmmaker I'd love to get composers Jennifer Higdon, Christopher Rouse or Lowell Liebermann to write my movie score.
if Ira and George have not already been mentioned did some classic show tunes and a few "movies" that were not adopted from their show themes. "Porgy & Bess" was made into a movie. Also Leonard Bernstein's "West Side Story" was made into a film. There are loads of great American composers and a few from Europe who wrote scores for Hollywood also. As more modern composers, one might consider Philip Glass or Vangelis.
-Bill
...and not music composed for stage that was later adapted into film, Bernstein's big claim to faim is the score to On The Waterfront.It says so much about the Academy Awards that Gershwin didn't win the Oscar for his nomimated song.
The Europeans - Korngold, Steiner, Waxman et al - as well as Glass and Vangelis are mentioned below in several posts. I gotta admit I don't consider either Glass or Vangelis "great" composers per Victor's criteria, although I think Glass' film music can be very effective.
that many great artists are neither popular nor even known and a lot of "great" works go unnoticed. I also find many film scores to be amazingly effective and often have absolutely no clue who the composers are even after hearing their names.
-Bill
Erich Korngold comes to mind.
Didn't William Walton write something? Can't think of what it was right now.
..the score to Olivier's celebrated film version of Henry V. Walton's score is quite wonderful. One of my all-time favorites.Walton scored other films and contributed to both movies and documentaries: Olivier's Hamlet and As You Like It; Escape Me Now; a famous piece from the Battle of Britain called the "Battle In The Air"; and the Spitfire March from First of The Few. I'm sure there are others but those are the ones I'm familiar with and the ones that are readily available on recordings. Naxos is doing a series of recordings of the complete Walton works for orchestra and the film music is available on 3 excellent albums from the Academy of St. Martin in-the-Fields.
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