"was originally cut from Auden's version. He concluded: ""For that alone, I was pleased to be part of the remake"". Britten's score for the film was first published in 2002. It imagines the real sounds of the train and incorporates these imaginary sounds into the score. At over fifteen minutes, it is one of Britten's most elaborate film scores. ""Night Mail"" was the basis for a song of the same name by British band Public Service Broadcasting for their 2013 album ""Inform-Educate-Entertain."" On 14 May 2014, the film was one of those chosen for commemoration in a set of Royal"
"some of his music has been recorded. The theme music for the first of the Karl May talkies, ""Through the Desert"" (1936), is included in the Karl May Film Music Collection Box ""Wild West, Hot Orient"". Letters of Gottfried Huppertz are held by the Leipzig music publisher CF Peters in the Leipzig State Archives. Gottfried Huppertz Gottfried Huppertz (11 March 1887 – 7 February 1937) was a German composer who is perhaps most known for his scores to German expressionist silent films such as the science fiction epic ""Metropolis"" (1927). He collaborated with legendary director Fritz Lang on multiple occasions."
"which was the most expensive movie made until then, was created especially for the movie, which was then unusual. The score was explicitly mentioned in the advertisements for the movie and was described in 1921 as the most memorable up to that time, and as ""a high point of motion picture music"". Robert Hood Bowers Robert Hood Bowers (24 May 1877 - 29 December 1941) was an American composer, conductor and musical director of operettas and stage musicals, and a conductor and musical director for radio. He composed the musical scores for some of the most popular silent movies, including"
"Geoffrey Burgon Geoffrey Alan Burgon (15 July 194121 September 2010) was a British composer best known for his television and film scores. Among his most recognisable works are ""Monty Python's Life of Brian"" for film, and ""Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy"" and ""Brideshead Revisited"" for television, the latter two earning Ivor Novello Awards in 1979 and 1981 respectively. He also won BAFTAs for his themes for the remake of ""The Forsyte Saga"" and ""Longitude"". Burgon also achieved success and a serious following with vocal, orchestral, concert and stage works. Burgon was born in Hambledon, Hampshire in 1941, and taught himself the"
"Geoffrey Burgon Geoffrey Alan Burgon (15 July 194121 September 2010) was a British composer best known for his television and film scores. Among his most recognisable works are ""Monty Python's Life of Brian"" for film, and ""Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy"" and ""Brideshead Revisited"" for television, the latter two earning Ivor Novello Awards in 1979 and 1981 respectively. He also won BAFTAs for his themes for the remake of ""The Forsyte Saga"" and ""Longitude"". Burgon also achieved success and a serious following with vocal, orchestral, concert and stage works. Burgon was born in Hambledon, Hampshire in 1941, and taught himself the"
"Eric Spear Eric Spear (18 April 1908 – 3 November 1966) was an English composer of film music most noted for writing the theme tune to the ITV soap opera ""Coronation Street"". He was born in Croydon and died in Southampton. Spear participated in the 1953 film ""Streets of Shadow"", which featured the German World War I spy Elsbeth Schragmüller. His theme for the 1954 movie ""Meet Mr. Callaghan"" was rendered as a best-selling record by Les Paul. For a short time in the 1960s, Spear lived in Guernsey. Spear is best known for composing the original theme tune for"
"Jerry Goldsmith Jerrald King Goldsmith (February 10, 1929July 21, 2004) was an American composer and conductor most known for his work in film and television scoring. He composed scores for such films as """" and four other films within the ""Star Trek"" franchise, ""The Sand Pebbles"", ""Logan's Run"", ""Planet of the Apes"", ""Patton"", ""Papillon"", ""Chinatown"", ""The Wind and the Lion"", ""The Omen"", ""The Boys from Brazil"", ""Capricorn One"", ""Alien"", ""Outland"", ""Poltergeist"", ""The Secret of NIMH"", ""Gremlins"", ""Hoosiers"", ""Total Recall"", ""Basic Instinct"", ""Rudy"", ""Air Force One"", ""L.A. Confidential"", ""Mulan"", ""The Mummy"", three ""Rambo"" films, and ""Explorers"". He collaborated with some of"
"George Antheil composed the music score, while Saul Bass designed the opening title sequence. The film's music score was the last important work by George Antheil, once famous as the ""bad boy of music"" in the 1920s. It is the only one of Antheil's many film scores to have been preserved on a commercial soundtrack recording. During the Peninsular War, Napoleon's armies overrun Spain. An enormous siege cannon, belonging to the Spanish army, is abandoned when it slows down the army's retreat. French cavalrymen are dispatched to find it. Britain, Spain's ally, sends Royal Navy artillery officer, Captain Anthony Trumbull"
"to the present day. He also served as a screenwriter for three movies and a director for the film ""Umpa"" in 1933. Sidney D. Mitchell Sidney D. Mitchell (June 15, 1888 in Baltimore, Maryland – February 25, 1942 in Los Angeles, California) was a Hollywood film industry lyricist and composer. He is best known for his collaborations with Lew Pollack on movie scores at Twentieth Century Fox in the 1930s and 1940s. Together with Louis Alter, Mitchell was nominated for an Oscar in 1937 for the song ""A Melody from the Sky"" which was in the 1936 motion picture ""The"
"Henry Mancini Enrico Nicola ""Henry"" Mancini (; April 16, 1924 – June 14, 1994) was an American composer, conductor and arranger, who is best remembered for his film and television scores. Often cited as one of the greatest composers in the history of film, he won four Academy Awards, a Golden Globe, and twenty Grammy Awards, plus a posthumous Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1995. His best known works include the theme and soundtrack for the ""Peter Gunn"" television series as well as the music for ""The Pink Panther"" film series (""The Pink Panther Theme"") and ""Moon River"" from ""Breakfast"
"Paul Hepker Paul Hepker (b. Harare, Zimbabwe; 17 December 1967) - South African composer, musical director, pianist, best known for composing the score (with Mark Kilian) for the film Tsotsi, which won the Academy Award for Foreign Language Film at the 78th Academy Awards in 2005. Hepker and Kilian also wrote the score for Rendition, the Gavin Hood film starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Reese Witherspoon and Meryl Streep amongst others. Hepker and Kilian also co-composed the score for ""The Bird Can't Fly"" by Dutch director Threes Anna. Hepker wrote the music for the AIDs documentary ""Into the Light"" which featured the"
"Bernard Herrmann Bernard Herrmann (born Max Herman; June 29, 1911December 24, 1975) was an American composer best known for his work in composing for motion pictures. As a conductor, he championed the music of lesser-known composers. An Academy Award-winner (for ""The Devil and Daniel Webster"", 1941; later renamed ""All That Money Can Buy""), Herrmann is particularly known for his collaborations with director Alfred Hitchcock, most famously ""Psycho"", ""North by Northwest"", ""The Man Who Knew Too Much"", and ""Vertigo"". He also composed scores for many other films, including ""Citizen Kane"", ""The Day the Earth Stood Still"", ""The Ghost and Mrs. Muir"","
"Janet Adair. On March 26, 1954, Silvers died of a heart ailment in Hollywood, California. Louis Silvers Louis ""Lou"" Silvers (September 6, 1889 – March 26, 1954) was an American film score composer whose work has been used in more than 250 movies. In 1935, he won an Academy Award for Best Original Score for ""One Night of Love"". Born in New York City, Silvers scored a D. W. Griffith film with sound sequences ""Dream Street"" (1921) and the part-talking feature film ""The Jazz Singer"" (1927). He was also music director for ""Lux Radio Theater"" for most of its long"
"of ethnomusicologist David Fanshawe resulting in the composition and recording of the work, and was nominated for the 'Prix Italia'. An updated version of the film, ""African Sanctus Revisited"", directed by Chappell, was made in 1995. Herbert Chappell Herbert Chappell (born 1934) is a British conductor, composer and film-maker, best known for his television scores. Chappell's many television scores include ""The Shadow of the Tower"" (1972), ""Clouds of Witness"" (1972), ""Murder Must Advertise"" (1973), ""The Pallisers"" (1974), and ""In Loving Memory"" (1969–1986). His theme for the BBC television series ""Songs of Praise"", commissioned in 1980, was used throughout the 1980s."
"Bronisław Kaper Bronisław Kaper (, February 5, 1902April 26, 1983) was a Polish film composer who scored films and musical theater in Germany, France, and the USA. The American immigration authorities misspelled his name as Bronislau Kaper. He was also variously credited as Bronislaw Kaper, Bronislaw Kapper, Benjamin Kapper, and Edward Kane. Kaper is now perhaps best remembered as the composer of the jazz standards ""On Green Dolphin Street"" (lyrics by Ned Washington) and ""Invitation"" (lyrics by Paul Francis Webster) which were originally the respective title tracks for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's films ""Green Dolphin Street"" (1947) and ""Invitation"" (1952). He also scored"
"Herbert Chappell Herbert Chappell (born 1934) is a British conductor, composer and film-maker, best known for his television scores. Chappell's many television scores include ""The Shadow of the Tower"" (1972), ""Clouds of Witness"" (1972), ""Murder Must Advertise"" (1973), ""The Pallisers"" (1974), and ""In Loving Memory"" (1969–1986). His theme for the BBC television series ""Songs of Praise"", commissioned in 1980, was used throughout the 1980s. His song, ""The Gonk,"" appeared in the 1978 film ""Dawn of the Dead"" and again, remixed by Kid Koala, in the 2004 film ""Shaun of the Dead"". He has also written classical pieces, such as the"
"featured in the list, including Elmer Bernstein, Bernard Herrmann, Max Steiner, and John Williams. His scores for the following films were also nominated for inclusion: Jerry Goldsmith Jerrald King Goldsmith (February 10, 1929July 21, 2004) was an American composer and conductor most known for his work in film and television scoring. He composed scores for such films as """" and four other films within the ""Star Trek"" franchise, ""The Sand Pebbles"", ""Logan's Run"", ""Planet of the Apes"", ""Patton"", ""Papillon"", ""Chinatown"", ""The Wind and the Lion"", ""The Omen"", ""The Boys from Brazil"", ""Capricorn One"", ""Alien"", ""Outland"", ""Poltergeist"", ""The Secret of NIMH"","
"was survived by his wife Eve and their two daughters, Emilie and Elizabeth; by his two sons, Peter and Gregory Bernstein, from his earlier marriage to Pearl Glusman; and by five grandchildren. Elmer Bernstein Elmer Bernstein (April 4, 1922August 18, 2004) was an American composer and conductor who is best known for his film scores. In a career that spanned more than five decades, he composed ""some of the most recognizable and memorable themes in Hollywood history"", including over 150 original movie scores, as well as scores for nearly 80 television productions. Examples of his widely popular and critically acclaimed"
"Heiko Maile Heiko Maile (born 12 January 1966 in Sydney) is a German musician and composer. He is best known as a member of the band Camouflage and as the composer for the score of the films ""The Wave"" and ""We Are the Night"" and won the Deutscher Fernsehpreis for best music in 2017. Heiko Maile grew up in Bietigheim-Bissingen. His first musical steps were at a young age when he started taking classical guitar lessons. His career as a musician and producer began in 1983, as one of the founding members of the synthpop band Camouflage. In the 1990s,"
"Heiko Maile Heiko Maile (born 12 January 1966 in Sydney) is a German musician and composer. He is best known as a member of the band Camouflage and as the composer for the score of the films ""The Wave"" and ""We Are the Night"" and won the Deutscher Fernsehpreis for best music in 2017. Heiko Maile grew up in Bietigheim-Bissingen. His first musical steps were at a young age when he started taking classical guitar lessons. His career as a musician and producer began in 1983, as one of the founding members of the synthpop band Camouflage. In the 1990s,"
"Alexandre Desplat Alexandre Michel Gérard Desplat (; born 23 August 1961) is a French film composer. He has won two Academy Awards for his musical scores to the films ""The Grand Budapest Hotel"" and ""The Shape of Water"", and received seven additional Academy Award nominations, eight César nominations (winning three), seven BAFTA nominations (winning three), seven Golden Globe Award nominations (winning two), and six Grammy nominations (winning two). Desplat has worked on a variety of films, including independent and commercial successes ""The Queen"", ""The Golden Compass"", ""The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"", """", ""Fantastic Mr. Fox"", ""Harry Potter and the"
"best film score from Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists in 1951 and 1961, respectively. His brother Tarcisio Fusco was also a composer. Giovanni Fusco Giovanni Fusco (10 October 1906, Sant'Agata dei Goti, Benevento – 31 May 1968, Rome) was an Italian composer, pianist and conductor, who has written numerous film scores since 1936, including those of Alain Resnais's ""Hiroshima mon amour"" (1959) and ""La guerre est finie"" (1966), as well as of most of the 1948-1964 films directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, from ""N.U."" (""Nettezza Urbana"") to ""Il deserto rosso"", except for ""La notte"" (soundtrack by Giorgio Gaslini) and some"
"Gottfried Huppertz Gottfried Huppertz (11 March 1887 – 7 February 1937) was a German composer who is perhaps most known for his scores to German expressionist silent films such as the science fiction epic ""Metropolis"" (1927). He collaborated with legendary director Fritz Lang on multiple occasions. Huppertz studied at the Conservatory of Music in Cologne and worked during World War I in Coburg, where he debuted in 1910 as a singer and actor. In 1920 he went to Berlin as an opera singer at the Nollendorfplatz theatre. His first composition, """"Rankende Rosen"""", was dedicated to the actor Rudolf Klein-Rogge, who"
"trophy for selling in excess of 2½ million records. Love died at the University College Hospital, Camden, London, on 8 July 1991 at the age of 73. Geoff Love Geoffrey Love (4 September 1917 – 8 July 1991), known as Geoff Love, was a prolific British arranger and composer of easy listening and pop versions of film themes. He became famous in the late 1950s, playing under the pseudonym of Manuel and The Music of The Mountains. Love was born in Todmorden, West Riding of Yorkshire, the only son and younger of two surviving children (an elder sister Cornelia) of"
"Alfred Newman (composer) Alfred Newman (March 17, 1901 – February 17, 1970) was an American composer, arranger, and conductor of film music. From his start as a music prodigy, he came to be regarded as a respected figure in the history of film music. He won nine Academy Awards and was nominated forty-three times. In a career spanning more than four decades, Newman composed the scores for over 200 motion pictures. Some of his most famous scores include ""Wuthering Heights"", ""The Hunchback of Notre Dame"", ""The Mark of Zorro"", ""How Green Was My Valley"", ""The Song of Bernadette"", ""Captain from"
"Alexander Courage Alexander Mair ""Sandy"" Courage Jr. (December 10, 1919May 15, 2008) was an American orchestrator, arranger, and composer of music, primarily for television and film. He is best known as the composer of the theme music for the original """" TV series. Courage was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He received a music degree from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, in 1941. He served in the United States Army Air Forces in the western United States during the Second World War. During that period, he also found the time to compose music for the radio. His"
"He is interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California. Leo Shuken Leo Shuken (born December 8, 1906, Los Angeles, California - d. July 24, 1976, Santa Monica, California) was an American film music composer, arranger and musical director. Shuken composed for the music industry from the end of the 1930s until shortly before his death, contributing music to over 100 films (many of which were uncredited). His first, uncredited, score was for ""Go West, Young Man"" in 1937. He won an Academy Award for his work on the 1939 film ""Stagecoach"", and was nominated in 1964 for the"
"Patrick Gowers William Patrick Gowers (5 May 1936 – 30 December 2014) was an English composer, mainly known for his film scores. Born in Islington, Gowers was the son of Stella Gowers (née Pelly) and Richard Gowers, a solicitor. His great-grandfather was the neurologist Sir William Richard Gowers, and his grandfather was the civil servant and writer Sir Ernest Gowers. He was educated at Radley College and later read music at Cambridge University. Whilst at Cambridge, he composed music for the Cambridge Footlights and taught composition part-time. He completed his doctorate, on the music of Erik Satie, in 1966. Gowers"
"Sidney D. Mitchell Sidney D. Mitchell (June 15, 1888 in Baltimore, Maryland – February 25, 1942 in Los Angeles, California) was a Hollywood film industry lyricist and composer. He is best known for his collaborations with Lew Pollack on movie scores at Twentieth Century Fox in the 1930s and 1940s. Together with Louis Alter, Mitchell was nominated for an Oscar in 1937 for the song ""A Melody from the Sky"" which was in the 1936 motion picture ""The Trail of the Lonesome Pine"". He contributed a large number of songs to other films, and his work continues to be featured"
"John Williams John Towner Williams (born February 8, 1932) is an American composer, conductor, and pianist. With a career spanning over six decades, he has composed some of the most popular, recognizable, and critically acclaimed film scores in cinematic history, including those of the ""Star Wars"" series, ""Jaws"", ""Close Encounters of the Third Kind"", ""Superman"", ""E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial"", the ""Indiana Jones"" series, the first two ""Home Alone"" films, ""Hook"", the first two ""Jurassic Park"" films, ""Schindler's List"", and the first three ""Harry Potter"" films. Williams has been associated with director Steven Spielberg since 1974, composing music for all but three"
"Elmer Bernstein Elmer Bernstein (April 4, 1922August 18, 2004) was an American composer and conductor who is best known for his film scores. In a career that spanned more than five decades, he composed ""some of the most recognizable and memorable themes in Hollywood history"", including over 150 original movie scores, as well as scores for nearly 80 television productions. Examples of his widely popular and critically acclaimed works are scores to ""The Magnificent Seven"", ""The Ten Commandments"", ""The Great Escape"", ""To Kill a Mockingbird"", ""Ghostbusters"", ""The Black Cauldron"", ""Airplane!"", ""The Rookies"", ""Cape Fear"", ""Animal House"", and ""The Age of"
"friendship with Igor Stravinsky: Nino Rota reflecting on the unhappiness of others: Federico Fellini on Nino Rota: Nino Rota Giovanni ""Nino"" Rota (3 December 1911 – 10 April 1979) was an Italian composer, pianist, conductor and academic who is best known for his film scores, notably for the films of Federico Fellini and Luchino Visconti. He also composed the music for two of Franco Zeffirelli's Shakespeare films, and for the first two films of Francis Ford Coppola's ""Godfather"" trilogy, receiving the Academy Award for Best Original Score for ""The Godfather Part II"" (1974). During his long career, Rota was an"
"of Labour (1971), and Order of the Red Star (1946). Nikita Bogoslovsky Nikita Vladimirovich Bogoslovsky (; May 22, 1913 in Saint-Petersburg, Russian Empire – April 4, 2004 in Moscow, Russia) was a Soviet Russian composer, author of more than 200 songs, 8 symphonies (1940–1991), 17 operettas and musical comedies, 58 soundtracks, and 52 scores for theater productions. Bogoslovsky is best known for two Mark Bernes's trademark songs from the Great Patriotic War film ""Two Fighters"" (Dva boitsa, 1943), ""Tyomnaya noch"" (Dark Night) and ""Shalandy polnye kefali"" (Boats Full of Mullets). Among his many honorary titles and State awards were People's"