Film d'Art: the first original film score

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Film d'Art: the first original film score · In 1908 the Parisian company Film d'Art wanted to make film respectable for a refined audience. It hired actors from the Comédie-Française and well-known writers. For L'assassinat du duc de Guise, Camille Saint-Saëns wrote a score for strings, piano and harmonium. It was one of the first times that a celebrated composer wrote music for one particular film. The music follows the action closely: a prelude and five tableaux, with moods of their own for the intrigue, the threat and the murder. Saint-Saëns later published the work as his Opus 128. The idea that a film deserves a score of its own, written to measure, begins here.

Listening

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  L'assassinat du duc de Guise, Op. 128: Prélude · Camille Saint-Saëns, 1908
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  L'assassinat du duc de Guise, Op. 128: Premier tableau · Camille Saint-Saëns, 1908
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  L'assassinat du duc de Guise, Op. 128: Cinquième tableau · Camille Saint-Saëns, 1908

In School of Rock

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• Film Music Map^NL Map

See also

• Live accompaniment: cinema pianists, organists and cue sheets
• Symphonic silent film scores (Hollywood and Weimar)
• French poetic realism and Les Six