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...who do you think would've made the best film composer..... and why!
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Rachmaninov - I suspect he would have taken to the medium perfectly, and he had such a wonderful gift of both drama and melody - oh, just read my liner notes from our recent Rachmaninov release - I explain all of this in them.
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Saying it four times doesn't make it true.
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Rachmaninov - I suspect he would have taken to the medium perfectly, and he had such a wonderful gift of both drama and melody - oh, just read my liner notes from our recent Rachmaninov release - I explain all of this in them.
He could've been the greatest composer for "chick flicks".... THAT'S for sure! 
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Tchaikovsky.Think his ballets.And being given instructions by choreographer for so may bars of such and such music and then...
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Wagner practically WAS a film composer who did not compose for films. (His music has no real form apart from dramatic intent.)
Stravinsky and Bartok had a huge impact on film music (two of the strongest influences of Jerry Goldsmith), they might have been good film composers as well.
And I'm sure Maurice Ravel might have done ravishingly beautiful film scores.
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Wagner. Mozart and Haydn would have been great for comedy I think, or something aristocratic.
Mahler would have been seriously interesting. Bruckner would have done superhero movies.
Just guessing 
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Although Wagner's style "sounds like film music" -- because it was an influence on many Golden Age composers (as well as Williams' Star Wars scores) -- I don't think he'd have made a good film composer.
Wagner (and his notoriously colossal ego) would never have consented to being given eight weeks to compose a score (he'd have demanded a couple of years) or taking direction from a filmmaker, or having his music blended (much less drowned-out) by sound effects.
I can only see Wagner as a "film composer" if the film was an adaptation of one of his operas, for which he wrote the libretto and produced himself.
My vote for best classical composer who would have been the best at films? Ravel (and it almost happened with Disney, but he wanted more time to write than they were willing to give him).
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My favorite is in line with Bernard Herrmann's: Joseph Joachim Raff -- the guy was 10 years older than Brahms but so much of his music is very forward-looking and some sounds very much like film music. He was influential on composers Just listen to the sweeping theme heard here about three minutes in to the second movement, and imagine it for the Fellowship of the Ring traversing mountain passes! (I adore Shore's scores, but his simplistic Fellowship theme leaves a lot to be desired for me.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvmlkMHT9y0&feature=youtu.be&t=15m21s
I include a little buildup before the theme comes in...also this recording is a little fast for me (otherwise superbly performed) but I couldn't find any YouTube excerpt of my favorite performance (cond. Werner Andreas Albert on CPO).
Go to www.raff.org to learn more and hear substantial excerpts from all/most of his major works.
Yavar
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