Not only the greatest film composer of them all, but I notice in all of his interviews he is a class act and a true gentleman. It's nice to see a nice guy experience so much success and acclaim.
November 1998. I was in a packed theatre on a warm Sydney night. Word had gotten out about how graphic the film was so there was a sort of nervousness in the theatre. The opening of the film with The elder Ryan in the cemetery and on the Higgins boats riding into Omaha beach doesn’t hit you right away. But when the ramps go down and the first rounds hit the rangers I was shocked at the sound the bullets made. The whizz and smack of the bullets hitting the bodies was nothing like I had heard before. Unforgettable!
And the Hymn To The Fallen really is the way Williams says. The movie ends and yet you sit, motionless and stare at the credits just because of this music... Amazing..
This particular score helped me enormously to endure my mother's dead and fulfill her last wish: honouring the brave men who died on Omahabeach by laying flowers at the Colleville sur Mer American War Cemetery in Normandy, France and visiting that place since then every year with 50 college students. Mum was born on october 23rd, 1943 and liberated by US forces on september 17th 1944. She died in may 2001. The Netherlands will be eternally gratefull. Thank you USA!
Thank you John Williams for bringing to the world of cinema the most intense and sweet feeling that can ever be developed for this great medium... Your music shakes our souls in honor and respect to those great men who fell in Omaha and on other fronts ... sadly this feeling of respect for the work of these men for peace, is again overshadowed by the ambition of the descendants of the promoters of slaughterhouses of men and women, these beings who without remorse, still do not feel what they you deliver through music; that little remnant of humble humanity that we still have as "civilization"... Thank you for drawing the notes of my childhood and recording in my memories every work in which your music moved every fiber of my being... thank you John, My family and I give you our deepest thanks.
I have been a member of several Symphony orchestras (Boston Symphony etc) that have recorded the soundtracks of several films that John Williams have composed & conducted in the recording process, (Saving Private Ryan,Pearl Harbour. Attack of the clones etc) . I have been a professional musician for almost 30 years & have never came across a better composer & conductor. John is a musical Genius & his scores are brilliant & emotionally moving. He is a musical genius & I have the upmost respect
I was Born in 1977 so This Man is a theatrical part of my youth……teenage years…..and Adult life. His music is Genius!!! Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park, Schindler’s list, Saving Private Ryan just to name a few….Pure emotional musical Genius
Favorite Film Composers 1 - John Williams 2 - Hans Zimmer 3 - Howard Shore 4 - Alan Silvestri 5 - Michael Giacchino 6 - Jerry Goldsmith 7 - Danny Elfman 8 - Ennio Morricone 9 - James Horner 10 - Brian Tyler (Brian Tyler is one of the most innovative composers of all time, so he get's the 10th place.. Considering the many great composers who could have made my top ten list, James Newton Howard, Bernard Herrmann, Thomas Newman, Michael Kamen, Nino Rota, Henry Mancini, John Powell, etc. etc.)
@@tailhookmd2546 Oh wow, that was my list 12 years ago. I was young at that time, and a lot has changed since then. Number one remains unchanged, however. Revision list: 1. John Williams 2. Hans Zimmer 3. Ennio Morricone 4. Jerry Goldsmith 5. Howard Shore 6. James Horner 7. Thomas Newman 8. Alan Silvestri 9. James Newton Howard 10. Michael Giacchino - unsorted: John Barry, Danny Elfman, Michael Kamen, Randy Newman, Max Steiner, Bruce Broughton, John Carpenter, Alan Menken, Bill Conti, Henry Mancini, Elmer Bernstein, Bernard Herrmann, Vangelis, David Arnold, Erich Wolgang Korngold, Basil Poledouris, Nino Rota, Maurice Jarre, Miklós Rósza, Daniel Pemberton, John Powell, Lalo Schifrin, Elliot Goldenthal, and many more…
Hymn to the fallen moves me each and every time I hear it. It is an epic track which pays homage to men and women who's sacriface literally saved the world from a true evil.
John Williams composed scores that captured our minds and hearts while watching our favorite films as a child to adult: Superman, Jaws, Back to the Future, Indiana Jones, Star Wars, Home Alone, Jurassic Park, Saving Private Ryan...list goes on..
Ennio Morricone is one of the greatest film composers of all time. In fact some of his composing is better then some of the films he composed for (not including cinema paradiso of course) . His body of work is truly remarkable unlike a lot of composers today that just piece unrelated thematic sections together in protools software. Most of the masters, Williams , Mancini ..etc. we're classic Pencil and paper composers as technology doesn't help writing the overall composition that includes depth and meaning. That's something you build up by playing, listening and writing.. And sometimes rewriting.
This is really one of the alltime greatest filmcomposers -- he is amazing. I had never heard him talk before, he sounds very calm and relaxed, is probably a nice guy. Jesper 28, Denmark
Some of the most empathetic, compelling, and passionate contemporary music I have ever heard. Add Spielberg's images to the music, and I am willingly entranced.
Absolutely. I heard many times this phrase from musicians who know: ask any class of film scoring students: "Who is your favorite film music composer?" You will most likely hear in unisson: "John Williams!". I would say the same in the blink of an eye. There are and were and will be many other fantastic film composers, some naysaywers even accuse J. W. of almost bordering on muzak, but J. W. seems to be THE composer who really reaches deep into feelings we didn't even know we could have.
Yes,John Williams no 1. No contest there. As for hans zimmer.i wonder if he contracts ppl to arrange for him. Its 1 thing to come up w a great melody....u still have to arrange it. Steve Jobs said "great artists steal". Wonder if Zimmer is in this catagory? Id still give hans thumbs up for his great taste in sounds. He does seem to know how to make use if the computer to its full advantage.so that being said......all in all,he gets what the director wants.
Music is the art of theft, for the most part, current composers of classical romanticism such as John Williams are meant to continue the tradition along with adding his own elements Any one that claims he steals is just ignorant
Zimmer does not compose the music attributed to him; he hires his 'minions' to do it for him. I do not believe that Zimmer has the capacity to 'steal', given that he can hardly read a music score. The computer is his best mate; nothing more, nothing less.
John Williams is the best QVC Music Composer in the world and so did James Horner, John Williams and James Horner are the best QVC composer in the world.
hey guys! i would NEVER try to compare williams and the others. williams is the ONLY of them who can write only with pencil and paper and that for each instrument of the orchestra etc.. he works like the great composers of the past and he still IS one of them (did you know he has written 2 whole symphonies ???). to compare williams with others, like zimmer, the electro fool who let others write his music, is a shame! only wanted to say that. long live maestro williams! :-)
I've been told a few weeks ago that a real genius is someone original and a model. Actually, only an artist can be a genius (Einstein was not : someone else could have discovered what he discovered because it's all science xD ). It sounds strange or too vague but I'm glad to believe it ;-). And John Williams is a genius of course ! That's indisputable. His music touches us in the deepest part of our heart. We can't explain it but we feel... well, extatic when it does. ^^ Thank you Mr Williams !
@dmiraie1 I agree. Hanz Zimmer has a whole army of minions of co-composers and musicians in what he calls Remote Control. He is not the only composer to work on a single score. He divides the job among his minions and takes credit of the job they did.
John is a prolific composer. He's done quite a few classic movie themes. Like Jaws, Star wars, Superman, Indiana Jones, Harry Potter and many others. Also, aside from Duel and The Color purple, he's composed every movie Steven Spielberg's directed, according to Wikipedia.
thats not what i meant, compare all you want but being objective ignores the more emotional pull that music has, which is often what leads us to prefer one musician over another, and they are both great composers
¡Excelente! La calidad contenida en esta composición es digna de un Oscar. La forma sostenida en que John mantiene la simetria, el lenguaje musical y el himno solemne al final revelan lo grandioso del arte que tenemos entre manos, que muy humildemente pienso debe estar entre una de las mejores de su carrera. Es un soundtrack obligado para todo amante de la buena musica.
4:16 to 4:35. Boy I don't know what I wouldn't have paid to benn been there in person. The climax of 'Hymn to the Fallen' is some of the most powerfully beautiful music I have ever heard.
I think more and more we have our first experiences from film and media. And in real life the love scene doesn't have those violins welling up and the traumatic accident doesn't have that beat pumping, just a strange silence which can be bizarre the first time it happens.
Impresionante banda sonora del maestro, probablemente una de sus mejores. A pesar de pasar desapercibida, el Hym to the Fallen es una de las mejores piezas compuestas para el cine.
Personal tastes aside, I think if one could be objective with music, John Williams is the better composer without a doubt. Knowing Zimmer's candor about his own work, I'm willing to be he would agree.
my friends, hans zimmer is nothing...you call him a composer? is a composer paying money to musicians to compose music for himself? sorry! hans zimmer is a music PRODUCER no COMPOSER...and please, who not can make music with expensive music programs? everybody! the art of williams work, writing down notes for the whole orchestra by hand is incredible! THAT is music THAT is composing....not this factory music of zimmer!
1. John Williams 2. Jerry Goldsmith 3. Bernard Herrmann 4. Ennio Morricone John Barry 5. Miklos Rosza 6. Phillipe Sarde. 7. James Horner 8. Pino Donaggio. 9. Philip Glass 10.Laurence Rosenthal 11. David Shire 12. Trevor Jones 13. Elliot Goldenthal 14. John Corigliano 15. Henry Mancini 16. Alan Silvestri 17. Jerome Morose 18. Thomas Newman 19. Quincy Jones 20. Don Davis 21. James Newton Howard . . 98. Danny Elfman 99. Hans Zimmer 100. Michael Giacchino
@walecs2 Yes ! Yes ! This is exactly what I wanted to say at the beginning when I said that Einstein was probably not a genius... I didn't want to be offensive towards science. But the thing is that "Hymn of the fallen" could not have been written without John Williams
I'm so sad that I don't undestand all what he said,'cause I'm fro germany. But just his voice makes me calm. When I see him I think hes a good wizard in history. Like merlin.
jamieariss I completely agree, Williams is far more talented than any of these Xfactor and Britain's Got Talent contestants yet they seem to be far more glorified. People have forgotten what real talent is, and it's not exactly helped by an oblivious media.
1 - John Williams 2 - 3 - Hans Zimmer 4 - Danny Elfman John Williams is so fucking awesome that the second place is empty, just to show how distant he is about the others composers
1. John Williams 2. Enino Morricone 3. John Barry 4. Bernard Hermann 5. Alfred Newman 6. Jerry Goldsmith 7. Hans Zimmer 8. Thomas Newman 9. Alan Menken 10. Howard Shore 11. Danny Elfman 12. James Newton Howard 13. Alan Silvestri
@ViktorJWilliams I see, usually artists and scientists do not see each others' ways. I have many hobbies in both areas, I would like to say that there is both a science of art and an art of science. Einstein was a brilliant philosopher, by the way.
@jahty I soooo wish that were true... sadly, people don't seem to care enough about the music being written for movies such as Saving Private Ryan, Star Wars, and Indiana Jones. People are always asking me who John Williams is when I bring it up. :\
