Film music specialist Doug Adams talks about Florent Schmitt’s Salammbô (1925) and other music scores from the silent film era.

One of the world’s leading journalists and authors on film music gives Schmitt’s score pride of place in the first quarter century of motion pictures. Among the most intriguing entries in the catalogue of Florent Schmitt’s compositions are the three suites he extracted from his score to the silent film Salammbô, which was premiered at the […]

One Heck of a Film Score: Florent Schmitt’s Salammbô (1925)

October 21, 2012 · by Phillip Nones | in Classical Music, Composers, Film Music, French Composers, Uncategorized | tagged Aubert, Classical Music, Craig Lysy, Film Music, Flaubert, Florent Schmitt, French Composers, Henry Prunieres, Korngold, Lionel Salter, Marodon, Mercier, Nones, Norman Del Mar, Phillip Nones, Rene Alix Chorus, Richard Langham Smith, Rolla Norman, Salammbo, Tony Aubin, Uri Segal, Villa-Lobos | 10 Comments

There are a number of indisputably great composers for the film: names like Richard Addinsell, David Raksin and Dimitri Tiomkin. And there are “serious” 20th century composes who also devoted more than a little of their effort and energy to writing for the screen. Erich Wolfgang Korngold comes immediately to mind, although one could also place Serge […]