Once again, it seems that silent cinema and everything that isn't Hollywood is shortchanged.
Plenty of great scores before KING KONG. In fact, scores that IMO are far better. Heck, I even think Saint-Saën's L'ASSASINAT DU DUC DE GUISE (1908) -- which is widely considered the first original score -- would be the winner in this category. It's both FIRST and GREAT.
Once again, it seems that silent cinema and everything that isn't Hollywood is shortchanged.
Shortchanged in a thread consisting of five posts, three of which consist of no answer, one of which is facetious, and the first of which only lists two scores that it wasn't?
From where I sit, Thor, it seems like Hollywood films received zero of zero votes.
But still -- it never fails. Some people's timelines of film (music) history start with Hollywood in the late 20s and early 30s. This is a pet peeve of mine.
To be honest, I only found Erdmann's score for Nosferatuto be ok (then again I haven't heard the Gillian Anderson recording). For me, the first great score would be Huppertz's Die Nibelungen.
Saint-Saën's L'ASSASINAT DU DUC DE GUISE (1908) -- which is widely considered the first original score -- would be the winner in this category. It's both FIRST and GREAT.
That isn't true though? The russian film composer Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov wrote the very first film score Stenka Razin and beat Saint-Saën by a few weeks. 17 November 1908 vs October 28 1908.
Saint-Saën's L'ASSASINAT DU DUC DE GUISE (1908) -- which is widely considered the first original score -- would be the winner in this category. It's both FIRST and GREAT.
That isn't true though? The russian film composer Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov wrote the very first film score Stenka Razin and beat Saint-Saën by a few weeks. 17 November 1908 vs October 28 1908.
Could be. It's always dangerous with these 'very first' things, as someone will always be able to dig up more obscure items that may precede what is generally and widely known to hold the 'title'. Same with the discussion surrounding what the first 'sound film' is (generally considered THE JAZZ SINGER, but again it depends on how you define 'sound film' etc.).
I've never heard about that Russian score before, though. I'll have to dig into it.
Saint-Saën's L'ASSASINAT DU DUC DE GUISE (1908) -- which is widely considered the first original score -- would be the winner in this category. It's both FIRST and GREAT.
That isn't true though? The russian film composer Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov wrote the very first film score Stenka Razin and beat Saint-Saën by a few weeks. 17 November 1908 vs October 28 1908.
Could be. It's always dangerous with these 'very first' things, as someone will always be able to dig up more obscure items that may precede what is generally and widely known to hold the 'title'. Same with the discussion surrounding what the first 'sound film' is (generally considered THE JAZZ SINGER, but again it depends on how you define 'sound film' etc.).
I've never heard about that Russian score before, though. I'll have to dig into it.
True. I don't know more than that and that I read that it was based on a folk song.
