The name Jerry Goldsmith alone is noteworthy enough.John Williams has composed some of the most memorable film scores in the last 40 years, including Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and Superman. Just pick any of the movements from his piano concertos, and you have instant Awesome Music. Sergei Rachmaninoff, especially his piano preludes and concertos.Wagner himself also deserves mention not only for his own music (which has seen a lot of use in film scores), but for his pervasive influence on film composers particularly in popularizing both the Late Romantic style and the use of leading motives and themes to characterize characters and ideas in dramatic music. Richard Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung operas, particularly his famous " Ride of the Valkyries".Hector Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique was one of the first symphonies with an accompanying storyline and may have possibly invented the Leitmotif.From The Other Wiki: "Over time, his hearing loss became profound: there is a well-attested story that, at the end of the premiere of his Ninth Symphony, he had to be turned around to see the tumultuous applause of the audience hearing nothing, he wept.".His Ninth Symphony, a magnificent composition by any account, was written while he was totally deaf. Ludwig van Beethoven, ESPECIALLY after he started going deaf.His Toccata and Fugue in D minor is the Standard Snippet for a Haunted House.Countless musicians of all genres, from his death in 1750 to the present day, have listed him among their influences.
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