Peter Moormann: Komponieren mit flexiblen Modulen: Zur Filmmusik von John Williams

Creator of more than one hundred film scores, John Williams is one of the world‘s most successful film composers, having collaborated with such directors as Chris Columbus, Alfred Hitchcock, George Lucas, and Oliver Stone, to name only a few. Central to his work, however, is the long and stable collaboration with Steven Spielberg. With the exceptions of Duel (1971) and The Color Purple (1985), Williams wrote all the scores for Spielberg’s films. Their first big success, Jaws (1975), was followed by the Indiana Jones series (1981-2008), E.T. (1982), Jurassic Park (1993), and Schindler’s List (1993). In his long and successful career, Williams (b. 1932) has written music for practically every genre, from science fiction to comedy. The question arises: how does he create his highly differentiated scores so quickly? The answer lies in his componential system of riffs and motives he develops like building blocks—basic patterns that are varied and adapted from film to film, depending upon the specific situation at hand.

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