20th Century (‘Classical’?) Composers (who occasion- ally composed for film):
Eric Satie (‘Entr’acte’ (1927)
Sergei Prokofiev (‘Alexander Nevsky’ (1938), ‘Ivan the Terrible’ (1944), ‘Love and Death’ (1975)
Ralph Vaughn Williams (‘49th Parallel’ (1941), ‘Scott of the Antarctic’ (1948)
Aaron Copland (‘Of Mice and Men’ (1939), ‘Our Town’ (1940), ‘The North Star’ (1943), ‘The Red Pony’ (1949), ‘The Heiress’ (1949)
Leonard Bernstein (‘On the Waterfront’ (1954), ‘West Side Story’ (1957-1961)
Dimitri Shostakovich (‘Battleship Potemkin’ (1927), ‘Octo- ber - 10 Days that Shook the World’ (1927)
Georges Auric (‘Moulin Rouge (1952), ’Roman Holiday’ (1953), ‘The Titfield Thunderbolt’ (1955)
George Antheil (‘The Buccaneer’ (1938), ‘The Fighting Kentuckian’ (1949), ’The Pride and the Passion’ (1957),
Philip Glass (‘Koyaanisqatsi’ (1982), ‘Kundun’ (1997), ‘The Hours’ (2002), ‘Notes on a Scandal (2006)
John Corigliano (‘Altered States’ (1980), ‘Revolution’ (1985), ‘The Red Violin’ (1998)
Max Richter (‘Hostiles’ (2017), ‘Never Look Away’ (2019), ‘Mary, Queen of Scots (2019) as well as brilliantly scored TV opuses, ‘Black Mirror’ and ‘My Brilliant Friend’)
Jazz/Pop Musicians (who composed for film): Andre Previn Leith Stevens Duke Ellington Miles Davis Lalo Schifrin Herbie Hancock Michel Legrand The Modern Jazz Quartet Peter Nero Kenyon Hopkins Quincy Jones Gato Barbieri Peter Gabriel Dave Grusin Neil Hefti Sonny Rollins Burt Bacharach George Harrison Paul McCartney Alan Price Tangerine Dream Vangelis Stewart Copeland
Bob Dylan Elton John Donovan Bjork David Byrne (Talking Heads) Ry Cooder Nick Cave / Warren Ellis Joe Jackson Mark Knopfler The Lovin’ Spoonful (John Sebastion) Mark Mothersbaugh (Devo) Pat Metheny