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That latest one isn't quite so remote historically, and also quite well known. He was the leading film composer in his country for a number of years before a stroke ended all that.
Well, I must say I find it WEIRD that some people who access FSM *only* seem to look at the General Discussion wing. After all, it's all connected and interconnected.
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Jun 19, 2015 - 10:20 AM
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Graham Watt
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I was off to a great start, but this has become way too obscure for me (many of the names I've heard about, but I wouldn't know what they looked like in a million years). Hopefully, there will be some more famous eventually (perhaps obscure and old photos of famous composers), or at least more recent.
I made the same mistake as you, Thor, about the purpose of the game. If you look back a few posts I made the same observation myself, thinking that we should already have an idea of what the composer looks like. Not the case apparently. We're supposed to go on the clues alone, discarding ones it can't be and eventually getting Bingo. So the idea is to end up saying "Ah! So THAT'S what he looks like!"
As for the latest one, composer, European cinema, associated largely with one director, '60s to '90s, then stopped due to health problems. I'm thinking Italian and French cinema... I thought it might be Piero Piccioni, but he was associated with tons of different directors, so I kind of discarded him... although the images I checked look quite similar to the mug-shot posted... I think that's the way the game is meant to go. Is it?
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Indeed. Of course, like in the Herman Stein case, one might have seen the mugshot somewhere and get it from that.
This last composer's career started with the first film of the director he worked with for a long time. He also scored that same director's last film, and (AFAIR) every single film of his in between. The director's last film was jokingly referred to by a noted American film critic as "A Guy in Every Port". The composer continued after the director's death, until the stroke.
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Indeed, it's Peer Raben.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder was an anomaly among directors of the "Neuer deutscher Film" in that he was convinced of the importance of having background music. QUERELLE is an excellent symphonic score by Raben, though Raben's heart was closer to the chanson and "salon music". His must sustained effort was the score for the TV mini series BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ, also directed by Fassbinder.
The photo above btw was taken post-stroke.
For our next candidate we have to go back several decades (as is obvious from the pose and the picture). Talking of "sustained" achievements, this man certainly wrote one of the finest (and longest) scores of his era - actually he wrote two such long scores, but one is more distinguished than the other.
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For our next candidate we have to go back several decades (as is obvious from the pose and the picture). Talking of "sustained" achievements, this man certainly wrote one of the finest (and longest) scores of his era - actually he wrote two such long scores, but one is more distinguished than the other.
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Yes, and those two epic scores were Nibelungian tasks indeed.
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Thus, going by Graham's clues - Cologne, metropolis, and a bit of digging around, let's get this one over with - Gottfried Huppertz . I have to say - I never hoid of him!
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Never heard of the composer of one of the greatest silent film scores, METROPOLIS????
Gottfried Huppertz, indeed.
We don't have to stray too far for this next man, who also wrote an absolutely superb silent film score (a rarity in itself!), not too different in tone and style from Huppertz's finest score. Whereas Huppertz died young, this man died even younger.
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