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It's got to be Morricone.
Not only has he scored 500+ projects (okay not all released on CD, but then again not all Goldsmith is on CD) but there are probably more Morricone compilation CDs than most composers have CDs period. Also many of his titles get reissued 3, 4, 5 or 6 times.
Cheers
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Are we talking sales volume or actual number of releases? Because in terms of volume, even Jamie Horner would have a chance.
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Durn double post!
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In terms of who has the most releases, I don't know but I'd guess Ennio Morricone as well. He must have over a thousand albums released over the decades... but it's just a guess, I have not researched it.
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For sure, but in a discussion about who's got the biggest, size is all that matters.
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'Morricone might have "500 soundtracks" but these were often small projects of him writing a few minutes of music, and not a full Hollywood effort like every Williams score.'
It was very rare that Morricone only wrote a few minutes of music for a movie.
For sure there were some movies where Morricone only wrote the main theme such as AGENT 077 MISSIONE BLOODY MARY (vocal and instrumental), and the odd television series like LA BIBBIA or MEN FROM SHILOH where he wrote only a few themes or just the main theme, but the vast majority of his film/tv scores are full scores and most of them have been released on cd.
Morricone did indeed work on many small budget European projects compared to high budget Hollywood movies, and of cause sometimes the films needed less music than other times, but that is the same for all film composers including Goldsmith and Williams. SONNY AND JED or LE MONACHINE are examples of this where there was only around 30 minutes of music written, and there are indeed some occasions where he probably only wrote a few minutes of music such as the Pasolini films DECAMERON or SALO.
But if you have a look at his filmography discography on Soundtrack Collector you will see that most of his scores have seen a full cd release, so to say that 'often' his projects required him to write only a few minutes of music is wrong. It's true that Morricone often repeated a theme within a score many times (not much different to many other composers) but Morricone is a master orchestrator who can interpret the same theme in different ways and to different effect.
I am assuming that the person who posted this thread was referring to film composers, in which case counting the compilations and the soundtrack cd's it has to be Morricone, but I'm not going to be the one that counts them!
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