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, Dimitri Tiomkin and John Williams. 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 […]