During the preparations for the filming of Lawrence of Arabia, producer Sam Spiegel went in search of a film composer who could provide the music …
Jerry Goldsmith: The Sound of Science-Fiction
Jerry Goldsmith immortalised himself with his music for several Star Trek films: His career began in the early 1950s when Goldsmith took a job as …
Burt Bacharach: The Musical Instinct
This article is published on the occasion of the passing of Burt Bacharach on February 8th, 2023. Marlene Dietrich once said, when introducing composer Burt …
Ennio Morricone: The maestro of film music
Ennio Morricone once said that he was actually a concert composer – film music was just a side hustle. But the name Ennio Morricone is …
John Barry: What would be a film without music?
His father was a projectionist and his mother was a classical pianist: one of the most famous film composers of the 20th century grew up …
Henry Mancini: Pioneer of film music
The name Henry Mancini is synonymous with legendary film music: like hardly any other film composer before him, he changed the world of film music.His …
The music of the James Bond movies
It was actually an accident: English composer Monty Norman was entrusted with composing the score for the first Bond film, Dr. No, in 1962. John …