"Battle of the Heroes" is a musical theme from a movie, that was written by which American composer, conductor, and pianist, with a career spanning over six decades?
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Battle of the Heroes "Battle of the Heroes" is a musical theme from the movie "" that was written by John Williams.
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John Williams John Towner Williams (born February 8, 1932) is an American composer, conductor, and pianist. With a career spanning over six decades, he has composed some of the most popular and recognizable film scores in cinematic history, including "Jaws", the "Star Wars" series, "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", "Superman", "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial", the "Indiana Jones" series, the first two "Home Alone" films, the first two "Jurassic Park" films, "Schindler's List", and the first three "Harry Potter" films. Williams has been associated with director Steven Spielberg since 1974, composing music for all but three of his feature films. Other notable works by Williams include theme music for the Olympic Games, "NBC Sunday Night Football", "The Mission" theme used by NBC News, the television series "Lost in Space" and "Land of the Giants", and the incidental music for the first season of "Gilligan's Island". Williams has also composed numerous classical concertos and other works for orchestral ensembles and solo instruments. From 1980 to 1993, he served as the Boston Pops' principal conductor, and is now the orchestra's laureate conductor.
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Serenity (soundtrack) The soundtrack to the 2005 motion picture "Serenity" was released on September 27, 2005. The film's score was composed by David Newman, and performed by the Hollywood Studio Symphony under Newman's direction. According to director Joss Whedon's sleeve notes for the album, Newman was recommended by Universal's music executives when he requested a musician capable of "everything." It is of note that the acoustic guitar version of the "Ballad of Serenity", which was used at the end of the film's credits, is absent from the soundtrack.
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Heinz Kiessling Heinz Kiessling (March 11, 1926 – December 27, 2003) was a German musician, conductor, composer and music producer, known mainly from his work for popular films and television programs.
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Allyn Ferguson Allyn Malcolm Ferguson Jr. (October 18, 1924 – June 23, 2010) was an American composer, best known for the themes for 1970s television programs "Barney Miller" and "Charlie's Angels" (1976-1981), which he co-wrote with Jack Elliott. In its obituary, "Variety" called him "among the most prolific composers of TV-movie scores in the past 40 years".
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Al Lerner (composer) Al Lerner (1919 – January 19, 2014) was an American pianist, composer, arranger, and conductor from the big band era. He was a member of the Harry James band for many years, playing piano. He wrote music for several artists, including Allan Sherman and Liza Minnelli. He also wrote the music for "So Until I See You", the closing theme for "The Tonight Show with Jack Paar" in the early 1960s, and was the pianist for "A Tribute to Eddie Duchin", which was a soundtrack for the 1956 biographical film pic "The Eddy Duchin Story".
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Walk, Don't Run (soundtrack) Walk, Don't Run is the soundtrack to the 1966 film of the same name composed by Quincy Jones. It was orchestrated by Jack Hayes and Leo Shuken.
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Benjamin Wallfisch Benjamin Wallfisch (born August 7, 1979) is an English composer, conductor, and pianist. Since the mid-2000s, he has composed and contributed to music for over 60 feature films. His compositions include original scores for "A Cure For Wellness", "Hidden Figures", "Lights Out", "Desert Dancer", and "It". In 2017, he was jointly nominated with Pharrell Williams and Hans Zimmer for Best Original Score at the 74th Golden Globe Awards for his work on "Hidden Figures".
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Jim Steinman James Richard Steinman (born November 1, 1947) is an American composer, lyricist, and Grammy Award-winning record producer responsible for many hit songs. He has also worked as an arranger, pianist and singer. His work has included songs in the adult contemporary, rock and roll, dance, pop, musical theater and film score genres. Beginning his career in musical theater, Steinman's most notable work in the area includes lyrics for "Whistle Down the Wind" and music for "Tanz der Vampire".
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Dimitri Tiomkin Dimitri Zinovievich Tiomkin (May 10, 1894November 11, 1979) was a Russian-born American film composer and conductor. Musically trained in Russia, he was best known for his western scores, including "Duel in the Sun", "Red River", "High Noon", "The Big Sky", "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral", and "Last Train from Gun Hill". Tiomkin received twenty-two Academy Award nominations and won four Oscars, three for Best Original Score for "High Noon", "The High and the Mighty", and "The Old Man and the Sea", and one for Best Original Song for "The Ballad of High Noon" from the former film.
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The Aviator (soundtrack) The Aviator: Music from the Motion Picture the original soundtrack album of the 2004 film "The Aviator" starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett and Alan Alda. The original score and songs were composed and conducted by Howard Shore and performed by Brussels Philharmonic (former Flemish Radio Orchestra).
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Bernard Herrmann Bernard Herrmann (born Max Herman; June 29, 1911December 24, 1975) was an American composer best known for his work in composing for motion pictures. As a conductor, he championed the music of lesser-known composers.
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Michael Hoenig Michael Hoenig (born 4 January 1952) is a German composer who has composed music for several films and games, in addition to two solo albums, including the highly-acclaimed 1978 album "Departure from the Northern Wasteland". In 1997, he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Main Title Theme Music for composing the theme to the science fiction series "Dark Skies".
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12 Years a Slave (score) 12 Years a Slave is the original soundtrack album to the 2013 film "12 Years a Slave" starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Dano, and Lupita Nyong'o. The record contains twenty-one tracks from the original film score written and composed by Hans Zimmer. The score was widely admired and thought of as a contender for the Academy Award for Original Music Score at the 86th Academy Awards.
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Jerry Goldsmith Jerrald King "Jerry" Goldsmith (February 10, 1929July 21, 2004) was an American composer and conductor most known for his work in film and television scoring. He composed scores for such noteworthy films as "", "The Sand Pebbles", "Logan's Run", "Planet of the Apes", "Patton", "Papillon", "Chinatown", "The Wind and the Lion", "The Omen", "The Boys from Brazil", "Capricorn One", "Alien", "Outland", "Poltergeist", "The Secret of NIMH", "Gremlins", "Hoosiers", "Total Recall", "Basic Instinct", "Rudy", "Air Force One", "L.A. Confidential", "Mulan", "The Mummy", three "Rambo" films, "Explorers" and four other "Star Trek" films.
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Patrick Williams (composer) Patrick Moody Williams (born April 23, 1939) is an American composer, arranger, and conductor who has worked in many genres of music, and in film and television.
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Amadeus (film) Amadeus is a 1984 American period drama film directed by Miloš Forman, adapted by Peter Shaffer from his stage play "Amadeus". The story, set in Vienna, Austria, during the latter half of the 18th century, is a fictionalized biography of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Mozart's music is heard extensively in the soundtrack of the movie. The film follows Italian composer Antonio Salieri at the court of Emperor Joseph II, and his jealous vendetta against his younger rival, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
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Neil Argo Neil Argo is an American composer for Film and Television working in Hollywood. He is most known for his work on the PBS Television series "Wild America".
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Leo Arnaud Leo Arnaud or Léo Arnaud ( ; July 24, 1904 – April 26, 1991) was a French-American composer of film scores, best known for "Bugler's Dream", which is used as the theme by television networks presenting the Olympic Games in the United States.
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Marc Neikrug Marc Neikrug (born September 24, 1946) is a contemporary American pianist, conductor, and composer. He was born in New York City, the son of cellists George Neikrug and Olga Zundel. He is known for a Piano Concerto (1966), the theater piece "Through Roses" (1980), and the opera "Los Alamos" (1988). Among his notable recent compositions are the orchestral song cycle "Healing Ceremony" (2010), his Concerto for Orchestra (2012), a Bassoon Concerto (2013), and the "Canta-Concerto" (2014).
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A Star Is Born (soundtrack) A Star Is Born is the soundtrack album to the 1976 musical film of the same name, performed by its stars Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson. The album was very successful, holding the number-one spot on the "Billboard" 200 chart for six weeks and eventually was certified 4x Platinum by RIAA for more than 4 million copies with a reported 15 million copies worldwide in the liner notes of the Streisand's album "Release Me".
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Jimmy Van Heusen Jimmy Van Heusen (born Edward Chester Babcock; January 26, 1913 – February 6, 1990), also named James Van Heusen, was an American composer. He wrote songs for films, television and theater, and won an Emmy and four Academy Awards for Best Original Song