Dr James Manos (MD)
June 2008
VERY FAMOUS MODERN FILM MUSIC COMPOSERS
Hans Zimmer was
born in 1957 and he is a German film music composer who composed music for
movies such as ‘The pirates of Caribbean’, ‘Gladiator’, ‘The Dark Knight’,
‘Inception’, ‘Angels & Demons’, ‘Lion King’, ‘The Dilemma’, ‘Megamind’,
‘Sherlock Holms’, ‘Iron Man’, ‘Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen’,
‘Clash of the Titans’, ‘Prince of Persia’, ‘The Pacific’, ‘Thelma & Louise’,
‘Toys’, ‘Crimson Tide’, ‘Rain Man’, ‘The Preachers Wife’, ‘King Arthur’, ‘The
Last Samurai’, ‘As Good as it Gets’,
‘The Prince of Egypt’, ‘The Thin Red Line’, Muppet Treasure Island’, ‘Mission: Impossible 2’, ‘Pearl Harbor’, ‘Hannibal’, ‘The Peacemaker’,
‘The Rock’, ‘Babylon A.D.’, ‘Broken Arrow’, ‘Eureka’, ‘Transformers’, ‘Moonlighting’, ‘The
last Emperor’, ‘Twister’ and many others.
James Roy Horner was
born in 1953 and he is an American film music composer who composed music
for movies such as ‘Titanic’, ‘Avatar’, ‘The Karate Kid’ (2010), ‘Braveheart’, ‘Apollo 13’, ‘A Beautiful Mind’, ‘Apocalypto’,
‘Troy’, ‘The Missing’, ‘House of Sand
and Fog’, ‘Field of Dreams’, ‘Aliens’, ‘Somewhere Out There’, ‘48 hours’,
‘Cocoon’, ‘Star Trek III’ ‘Krull’, ‘Commando’, ‘The
Mask of Zorro’ and many others.
Ennio Morricone was born in 1928 and he is an Italian film music composer who composed
music for movies such as ‘The Good the Bad and the Ugly’, ‘Mission to Mars’,
‘Disclosure’, ‘Wolf’, ‘Exorcist II: the Heretic’,
‘In the Line of Fire’, ‘Bugsy’, ‘Nuovo Cinema
Paradiso’, ‘The Mission’, ‘The Untouchables’,
‘A Fistful of Dollars’, ‘For a Few Dollars More’, ‘Once Upon a time
in the West’, ‘Guns of Saint Sebastian’, ‘Revolver’, ‘Days of Heaven’, ‘Malèna’, Maddalena (music
‘Chi Mai’)‘The Legend of 1900’ and many others.
John Williams was
born in 1932 and he is an American film music composer who composed music
for movies such as ‘Star Wars’ ‘Superman’, ‘ET’, ‘Jurassic Park’, ‘Indiana Jones’, ‘Close Encounters of the Third
Kind’, ‘Hook’, ‘The Schindler’s List’, ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’, ‘The Witches
of Eastwick’, ‘Empires of the Sun’, ‘Home Alone’,
‘Seven Years in Tibet’, ‘The Lost Word: Jurassic Park’,
‘Amistad’, ‘Saving Private Ryan’, ‘Harry Potter’, ‘Munich’, ‘The Poseidon
Adventure’, ‘Jaws’, ‘Earthquake’ (1975), ‘The
River’, ‘Artificial Intelligence’, ‘The Cowboys’ (1972), ‘The Patriot’, ‘Memoirs of Geisha’, ‘War Horse’,
‘JFK’, ‘Nixon’, ‘Sabrina’, ‘Born on the 4th of July’, Dracula’
(1979), ‘Heidi’ and many others. He also wrote the theme music for the summer
Olympics of 1984 in Los Angeles.
Miklós Rózsa (1907 – 1995) was
a Hungarian film music composer who composed music for movies such as ‘The
King of the Kings’, ‘Ivanhoe’, ‘El Cid’, ‘Ben – Hur’, ‘Quo Vadis’, ‘Knights
of the Round Table’, ‘The thief of Baghdad’,
‘Jungle Book’, Julius Caesar’, ‘Sodom and Gomorrah’, ‘The private Life of
Sherlock Holmes’, ‘The Golden Voyage of Sinbad’
and many others.
Trevor Jones was
born in 1949 and he is a South African film music composer who composed music
for movies such as ‘The Last of the Mohicans’, ‘Cleopatra’ (1999), ‘Around
the Word in 80 Days’ (2004), ‘Excalibur’, ‘Mississippi Burning’, ‘Arachnophobia’,
‘Richard III’, ‘Dark City’, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen’ and many
others.
Andrew Lloyd Webber was
born in 1948 and he is an English composer of musical theater who composed
music for movies and musicals such as ‘Phantom of the Opera’, ‘Evita’, ‘Cats’, ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ and ‘Sunset Boulevard’.
He also composed the ‘Requiem’ (1984) in memory of his father.
Bill (William) Conti was
born in 1942 and he is an American film music composer who composed music
for movies such as ‘Rocky’, ‘Dynasty’, ‘The Karate Kid’, ‘Falcon Crest’, ‘8
Seconds’, ‘Inferno’ and ‘For your Eyes Only’.
Vangelis Papathanasiou was born in 1943 he is a Greek film music
composer who composed music for movies such as ‘Chariots of Fire’, ‘Blade
Runner’, ‘Conquest of Paradise’, ‘El Greco’ and ‘Electra’. He also has rich
discography. He composed the music for the Closing of the Olympics in Sydney in 2000 and he also composed the music ‘Mythodea’ for the NASA’s Odyssey mission to Mars in 2001
Maurice – Alexis
Jarre (1924 – 2009) was a French composer and conductor. He composed
music for movies such as the ‘Lawrence of Arabia’, The Message (1976)’, ‘Witness’
(1985), ‘Ghost’ (1990), ‘Doctor Zhivago’ ‘Ryan’s daughter’, ‘The man who would
be King’, ‘The last Tycoon’, ‘Jesus of Nazareth’ (TV miniseries, 1977), ‘Shogun’
(1980), ‘A passage to India’, ‘Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome’ (1985), ‘The river
Wild’ (1994), ‘Uprising’ (2001). His son is the famous electronic music composer,
Jean Michel Jarre.
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MUSIC COMPOSERS OF FAMOUS MUSIC THEMES
Mission Impossible (cinema)
It is a rendition from Adam Clayton & Larry Mullen. The original music is from Lalo
Schifrin (from Argentina).
Love Story (cinema)
The music is from the French composer Francis Lai
who composed it for the 1970 film ‘Love Story’.
The Godfather (cinema)
This music is composed by the Italian composer
Nino Rota.
War and Remembrance (TV show)The music is composed by Robert "Bob"
Cobert, a musical
composer who has written music for television and movies
Charlie’s Angels (TV show) The theme music composers of Charlie's Angels are Jack Elliott & Allyn Ferguson.
Dallas (TV soap opera)
This music is composed by the americal film composer Jerrold Immel.
The Young and the Restless (TV soap opera)
"Nadia's Theme" is the theme song of ‘The Young and the Restless’
since 1973. It was originally titled "Cotton's Dream". It was written by Barry De Vorzon and Perry Botkin, Jr. for
the 1971 theatrical film Bless the Beasts and Children and was later renamed
"Nadia's Theme" when the ABC television network gave the music for
the Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci's performance at the 1976 Summer
Olympics.
The bold and the Beautiful (TV soap opera)
The theme song "High Upon This Love," was written by Jack Allocco and David Kurtz. The saxophone is played by the well
known saxophonist Eric Marienthal.
