Music in Woman of Straw
The credits list music by Beethoven, Berlioz, Mozart and Rimsky-Korsakov. Does anyone know the names of the actual pieces used in the film? Thanks.
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1. The music in the first scene when Maria and Tony Richmond get jiggy is from the ‘Symphonie Fantastique’ by Berlioz.
2. Those scenes where Maria escapes from the boat to the hotel and Charles Richmond retrieves her is set to ‘Le Coq D'Or’ by Rimsky-Korsakov.
3. Those scenes around the time of Charles Richmond's death and the handling the corpse are from one of the climaxes from one of the Beethoven symphonies* and/or Mozart (his ‘Requiem’, perhaps).
4. The scene where Tony Richmond returns to the mansion assuming he's the victor is also from ‘Symphonie Fantastique’ by Berlioz.
5. The climactic scene is, again, from one of the climaxes from one of the Beethoven symphonies*
*The Beethoven symphony is most likely the 5th, 7th or 9th. But it would repay you to know all three of them.
I saw this film in the Odeon cinema in Kensington, London, in 1964. I was taken by the music on the end credits, so I went to the local record shop and told the shop girl, that I had heard this music in the film, and only knew it was by Beethoven, so I hummed it to her, she said it was the 9th Symphony. I then purchased my first LP of his music. This evening at the The Proms Daniel Barenboim conducted The West East Divan orchestra in a performance of the 9th Symphony it was magnificient.
shareThe music in the climatic scene, is the second, or, third movement from his 9th Symphony.
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