Favorite soundtrack composers?

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  1. RickH

    RickH Connoisseur of deep album cuts Thread Starter

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    A few of my all-time favorites:

    Lalo Schifrin
    Bernard Herrmann
    Blake Neely
    John Barry
    James Newton Howard
    Ennio Morricone
    Mark Snow (“X Files”)
    Pino Donaggio (“Body Double”)
    John Harrison (“Creepshow”)
    Vic Mizzy
     
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  2. Mal

    Mal Phorum Physicist

    John Williams

     
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  3. Mal

    Mal Phorum Physicist

    Max Steiner

     
  4. fabre

    fabre Forum Resident

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    Germany
    I am a huge fan of Soundtracks, here are a few of my favourite composers:

    Bernard Herrmann (Hitchcock)
    Basil Poledouris (Hunt for Red October)
    Masaru Sato (his soundtracks for Kurosawa, After the Rain)
    Shinichiro Ikebe (Kagemusha)
    Fumio Hayasaka (Kurosawa)
    Toru Takemitsu (Kurosawa)
    Takashi Kako (Letter from the Mountain)
    Jean-Paul Rappeneau (Le Hussard sur le toit)
    Philippe Sarde (Cesar et Rosalie, Un Coeur en Hiver, Nelly et Monsieur Arnaud)
    Maurice Jarre (Doctor Zhivago)
    Dimitri Tiomkin (High Noon)
    Max Richter (My brilliant friend, The Leftovers, Taboo)
    Henri Mancini (Touch of Evil)
    Jerry Goldsmith (Rambo First Blood)
    John Barry (Dances with Wolves, Bond movies)
    Lalo Schifrin (Bullit)
    Luboš Fišer (Valerie and Her Week of Wonders)
    Jiří Šust (Larks on a String)
    Manos Hadjidakis (Never on Sunday)
    Michael Nyman (Le Mari de la Coiffeuse)
    Nicholas Britell (If Beale Street Could Talk)
    Tan Dun (Hero, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon)
    Javier Navarrete (Pan’s Labyrinth)
    Zbigniew Preisner (Le Double Vie de Veronique, Trois couleurs: Rouge)
    Michael Galasso & Shigeru Umebayashi (In the Mood for Love)
    Yann Tiersen (Le Fabuleux Destin D'Amélie Poulain)
    Stavros Xarchakos (Kokkina Fanaria, Kosme agapi mou)
    Alex North (Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf)
    Eduard Artemyev (Sibiriade)
    Alfred Schnittke (The Ascent, The Glass Harmonica, Commissar, Agony)
    Robert Israel (love his music to silent films)
    François de Roubaix
     
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  5. alexpop

    alexpop Power pop + other bad habits....

    top five ?

    Alan Silvestri
    Lalo Schifrin
    Bernard Herrmann
    John Barry
    Ennio Morricone
     
  6. apesfan

    apesfan "Going Ape"

    Jerry Goldsmith- The Best
    Lalo Schifrin
    Bernard Hermann
    John Barry
    Leanard Rosenman
    Christopher Young
     
  7. SmallDarkCloud

    SmallDarkCloud Forum Resident

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    Along with some of the others already mentioned, I really like David Shire's work (The Conversation; The Taking of Pelham, 1,2,3; Return to Oz; Zodiac). I particularly love his scores for The Conversation and Return to Oz, which fit the films perfectly. Wendy Carlos' scores for the Kubrick films, and Tron are also big favorites. In a more obscure corner, I love Claudio Gizzi's score for Andy Warhol's Dracula; whatever the merits of the film (it's certainly interesting), Gizzi's score has a beautiful melancholic feel that's almost at odds with the movie.
     
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  8. nopedals

    nopedals Forum Resident

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    Ernest Gold (On the Beach 1959)
     
  9. stepeanut

    stepeanut The gloves are off

    Jerry Fielding
     
  10. Floyd Crazy

    Floyd Crazy Senior Member

    Vangelis
    (Blade runner)
    John Barry
    Lalo Schifrin
    Ennio Morricone
    John Williams.
     
  11. Humbuster

    Humbuster Staff Emeritus

    John Barry

    Lalo Schifrin

    Michel Legrand
     
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  12. Zep Fan

    Zep Fan Sounds Better with Headphones on

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    Herrmann
    Barry
    Goldsmith
    Williams
     
  13. Ghostworld

    Ghostworld Senior Member

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    Michael Small

    Klute
    Marathon man
    Parallax View
    Stepford Wives
    Night Moves.


     
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  14. fabre

    fabre Forum Resident

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    If I only had to choose a handful Bernard Herrmann and Ennio Morricone would be among the top positions but there are so many great composers. Yesterday I was watching an episode of "From the Earth to the Moon" and was suddenly reminded of the great Elmer Bernstein and his wonderful Soundtrack of "The Great Escape".

    Thinking about my favourite movies makes me think about Anton Karas and his theme for "The Third Man".

    I am sorry for posting so many names and titles but for me this is a bottomless pit:

    Ry Cooder (Paris, Texas)
    Patrick Doyle (Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein, Needful Things)
    Jo Yeong-wook (Sympathy for Lady Vengeance)
    Klaus Doldinger (Das Boot)
    George Delerue (Le Mépris, Platoon)
     
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  15. jwoverho

    jwoverho Licensed Drug Dealer

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    I’ve probably got more CDs by Morricone than anyone else due to the sheer volume of his work, and he’s still a very active composer.
    For me he’s the greatest living film composer.

    I second Herrmann. The last scores he composed are some of his finest: SISTERS, IT’S ALIVE, OBSESSION, TAXI DRIVER.
     
  16. nosliw

    nosliw Delivering parcels throughout Teyvat! Meow~!

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    John Debney is another great composer who did Cutthroat Island, The Scorpion King, and the Playstation 2 video game Lair.

    Richard Marvin (U-571 has an amazing soundtrack)

    James Horner (Aliens, The Land Before Time, Avatar, etc.)
     
  17. violarules

    violarules Senior Member

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    Korngold has to be near the top of the list. John Williams has imitated his style on more than one occasion.
     
  18. Partyslammer

    Partyslammer Lord Of The New Church

    The Fantastic Five:

    Bernard Herrmann
    Akira Ifukube
    James Bernard
    Basil Poledouris
    Hans Zimmer
     
  19. audiomixer

    audiomixer As Bald As The Beatles

    Randy Newman
     
  20. Zep Fan

    Zep Fan Sounds Better with Headphones on

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    Favorite Movie Scores, a Top Ten:

    Excalibur
    Leon: The Professional
    What Lies Beneath
    Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
    The Music Man
    Dr. Zhivago
    Blade Runner
    The Godfather
    Oklahoma!
    Journey To The Center Of The Earth
     
  21. Jerry Goldsmith (Alien, Patton, Planet of the Apes, Boys from Brazil, The Man From UNCLE -original TV theme, Star Trek)
    Bernard Herrmann (Citizen Kane, Sisters, Psycho, North by Northwest)
    Elmer Bernstein (The Magnificent Seven, Elmer Gantry)
    Lalo Schifrin (Mission:Impossible, Hellstrom Chronicles)
    Dominic Frontiere (The Outer Limits, The Invaders, The Stunt Man, Hang ‘Em High)
    Randy Newman (Ragtime, Pleasantville)
    Leonard Rosenman (East of Eden, Fantastic Voyage, Bound for Glory, Star Trek: The Voyage Home)
    John Williams
    Basil Poledouris (The Hunt for Red October, Flight of The aNavigator)
    Ennio Moricone
    John Barry

    Surprised to see so few mentions for Jerry Goldsmith one of the most innovative composers of his time
     
  22. TheSeldomSeenKid

    TheSeldomSeenKid Forum Resident

    Like others have mentioned, the first Film Composer who comes to mind for Quality & Quantity is:

    Ennio Morricone

    I also have really enjoyed the few Jonny Greenwood(Radiohead) Soundtracks that I have heard so far including:

    1. There Will Be Blood(Film Composer, Hans Zimmer in 2016 said the score was the one that had most "stood out to him" in the past decade, describing it as "recklessly, crazily beautiful").
    2. Phantom Thread
    3. Bodysong

    Greenwood has been a busy person the past 10-12 years, as there are several other Soundtracks he also has completed including:

    You Were Never Really Here
    The Master
    Inherent Vice
    Norwegian Wood
    We Need to Talk About Kevin

    Greenwood has also been involved with several other Music Projects. Now, I can see why there are several Years between Radiohead Albums. Speaking of Radiohead, I like Thom Yorke's Soundtrack for 'Suspiria', despite not caring for his first 2 Solo Albums and Atoms for Peace.
     
  23. tommy-thewho

    tommy-thewho Senior Member

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    John Barry and Jerry Goldsmith are top 2.
     
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  24. Ignatius

    Ignatius Forum Resident

    Piero Umiliani deserves a mention, as well as Stu Phillips.
     
  25. Michael

    Michael I LOVE WIDE S-T-E-R-E-O!

    Danny Elfman
    Jerry Goldsmith
    James Horner
    John Williams
    Thomas Newman
     
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