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Released in 2005, a docudrama titled Beethoven's Hair, directed by Larry Weinstein, traces the unlikely journey of a lock of hair cut from Beethoven's corpse and unravels the mystery of his tortured life and death with scientific evidence. [citation needed] A movie titled Copying Beethoven was released in 2006, starring Ed Harris as
"Roll Over Beethoven" and three other Berry songs were included on the album Rock, Rock, Rock, promoted as the soundtrack of the film of the same name, but only four of the 12 songs on the album were used in the film. "Roll Over Beethoven" has been released numerous times on compilation albums, including Chuck Berry Twist and The Chess Box.
Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange is a soundtrack album released in 1972 by Warner Bros. Records, featuring music from Stanley Kubrick's 1971 film A Clockwork Orange.It includes pieces of classical music and electronic music by American composer and musician Wendy Carlos, whom Kubrick hired to write the film's original score.
Not actually commissioned for the movie, but inspired by the movie's use of the orchestral version. "Theme from A Clockwork Orange (Beethoviana)" 1:44: The title theme reset in the style of Beethoven and played using flute-like tones. "Ninth Symphony: Second Movement" 4:52: An abridged electronic version of Beethoven's Scherzo.
The score incorporates diegetic music, which includes the Beethoven's 9th Symphony (commonly known as "Ode to Joy") [5] and the classical piece of Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 by Johann Sebastian Bach, [4] along with film score cues include James Horner's unused score for Aliens (1986) and cues from Man on Fire (1987).
The film is set in Vienna on 9 June 1804, the date of the private, first performance of Beethoven's third symphony, later to be known as the 'Eroica'. The performance, and most of the action in the film, takes place at the palace of one of Beethoven's patrons, Prince Franz Lobkowitz.
The music played during the broadcast of the 1939 radio speech at the climax of the film is from the 2nd movement (Allegretto) of Beethoven's 7th Symphony; it was added by Tariq Anwar, the editor. When Desplat later joined the team to write the music, he praised and defended Anwar's suggestion.
Immortal Beloved is a 1994 biographical film written and directed by Bernard Rose and starring Gary Oldman, Jeroen Krabbé, Isabella Rossellini and Johanna ter Steege.The film narrates the life of composer Ludwig van Beethoven (played by Oldman) in flashbacks while it follows Beethoven's secretary and first biographer Anton Schindler's (Krabbé) quest to ascertain the true identity of the ...