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Old Feb 4 2008, 5:32 AM
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Originally Posted by walkingwikipedia View Post
Well for me the obvious answer is John Williams (along with most other film composers - Howard Shore getting particular mention for what is almost plagiarism of Sibelius in "Lord of the Rings")

If we are going for proper composers however, I would definitely nominate Pachabel.
Are you still living in the 20s or something? Why are film composers not "proper" composers?



And how is Lord of the Rings like Sibelius? It all sounds very Celtic and melodic to me. If anything, I think those film scores would have been better if they were more Sibelian!
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