NEW YORK, March 8 — From Star Wars to Jaws to Schindler’s List, John Williams has written many of the most instantly recognisable scores in cinema history. The 91-year-old is...
William is known for his grand neo-Romantic scores in the fashion of Wagner, a contrast to the more experimental fare prevalent among many modern composers outside Hollywood.
Williams holds he’s not as Wagnerian as his music might indicate, but admits the 19th century German giant’s influence on Hollywood’s early composers, and therefore his own, is palpable.“I have been in the big river swimming with all of them.”Williams was born on February 8, 1932 in New York’s Queens borough to a percussionist father, and was the eldest of four children.
Though he aspired to be a concert pianist, it became clear to Williams that composition was his true forte.
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