John Williams
Wikimp3 information about the music of John Williams. On our website we have 70 albums and 1 collections of artist John Williams. You can find useful information and download songs of this artist. We also know that John Williams represents Theatre/Soundtrack genres.
Biography
[Edit]The most popular film composer of the modern era, John Williams created music for some of the most successful motion pictures in Hollywood history — Star Wars, E.T. the Extra Terrestrial, and Jurassic Park are just three of the credits in his extensive oeuvre. Born February 8, 1932, in Long Island, NY, he was himself the son of a movie studio musician, and he followed in his father's footsteps by studying music at UCLA and Juilliard; initially, he pursued a career as a jazz pianist, later working with Henry Mancini to compose the score for the hit television series Peter Gunn. Williams then went solo to pen a number of TV soundtracks for series including Playhouse 90, Wagon Train, and Bachelor Father; in 1959 he ventured into film with Daddy-O, and spent the majority of the 1960s alternating between the silver screen (The Killers, The Plainsman) and its smaller counterpart (Gilligan's Island, Lost in Space).
In 1968 Williams earned his first Academy Award nomination for his work in Valley of the Dolls; in 1970, he garnered nods for both The Reivers and Goodbye, Mr. Chips, and two years later finally won for Fiddler on the Roof. A slew of Oscar nominations followed, for features including The Poseidon Adventure, Images, Tom Sawyer, and The Towering Inferno. In 1974 he first teamed with a young filmmaker named Steven Spielberg on a movie titled The Sugarland Express; the two frequently reteamed over the years to come, with often stunning results — Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T., Jurassic Park, and Schindler's List were just a few of the Spielberg/Williams pairings, with Jaws, E.T., and Schindler's List all winning the composer Academy Awards.
Williams' other most frequent collaborator was George Lucas; beginning with 1977's Star Wars — yet another Williams Oscar winner — they later teamed for 1980's The Empire Strikes Back and 1983's Return of the Jedi, with the composer agreeing to score Lucas' subsequent Star Wars films as they went into production in 1997. He even celebrated his 30th anniversary of working with Steven Spielberg with 2002's Minority Report soundtrack. Other scores of note included 1979's Superman, 1987's The Witches of Eastwick, 1988's The Accidental Tourist, 1991's JFK, and 1995's Nixon. In 1980, Williams also took over for the late Arthur Fiedler as the conductor of the Boston Pops.
Title: Echoes from the Past: The Guitar Music of John Williams
Artist: John Williams
Genre: Instrumental, Instrumental, Easy Listening
Title: Songs Of Freedom - Songs & Guitar Pieces
Artist: Faradouri, John Williams, ΘΕΟΔΩΡΑΚΗΣ ΜΙΚΗΣ / THEODORAKES MIKES
Genre: World Music, Classical
Title: Star Wars - A New Hope CD1 (2004 Edition)
Artist: John Williams
Genre: Pop, Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: Harry Potter Soundtrack Collection (Limited Edition) (CD3)
Artist: John Williams
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: The Essential Film Composers: John Williams (Original Soundtrack)
Artist: John Williams
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: War of the Worlds (Music from the Motion Picture)
Artist: John Williams
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: The Lost World: Jurassic Park (Original Soundtrack) (CD2)
Artist: John Williams
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: Filmharmonic Brass Plays John Williams
Artist: John Williams, Filmharmonic Brass
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: Segovia and Williams: Guitar Virtuosos Play Bach
Artist: Andrés Segovia / Andres Segovia, John Williams
Genre: World Music
Title: Music from England, Japan, Brazil, Venezuela, Argentina and Mexico
Artist: John Williams
Genre: Classical
Collections
Title: Christmas Carols Classics 2024 (CD1)
Genre: Pop
Featuring albums
Title: Schindler's List (Soundtrack from the Motion Picture)
Artist: Schindler's List
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: The Essential Jessye Norman
Artist: Jessye Norman
Genre: Traditional Pop Music, Classical, Opera
Title: The Harry Potter Saga: Music for Solo Piano Vol. 2
Artist: Jartisto
Genre: New Age, Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: Bryn Terfel: Simple Gifts
Artist: Bryn Terfel
Genre: Christian Rock, Christian Country Music, Classical, Opera
Title: The Copland Collection
Artist: National Philharmonic Orchestra, Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra
Genre:
Title: Classic Perlman: Rhapsody
Artist: Itzhak Perlman, Seiji Ozawa, Boston Symphony Orchestra
Genre:
Title: The Jessye Norman Collection - The Songbooks
Artist: Jessye Norman
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack, Opera
Title: Purcell Edition, Vol. 3: Odes, Anthems & Ceremonial Music
Artist: John Eliot Gardiner, Gustav Leonhardt, Chanticleer, Tragicomedia
Genre:
Title: The Sunday Brunch Album
Artist: Pablo Casals, Janos Rolla, Philharmonia Virtuosi Of New York
Genre:
Title: Music from the Films of Paul Newman
Artist: The City Of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: Amazing Stories
Artist: John Debney, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Joel McNeely
Genre: World Music, Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: Plague and the Moonflower
Artist: The English Chamber Choir, New London Children'S Choir, Oxford, Choir Of New College
Genre: Orchestral, Classical, Orchestral
Title: An 80th Birthday Celebration
Artist: André Previn / Andre Previn
Genre: Jazz, Crossover Jazz, Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: Fright Night - Music That Goes Bump In The Night
Artist: The Cleveland Orchestra, The Boston Pops Orchestra
Genre:
Title: The Harry Potter Saga: Music for Solo Piano Vol. 1
Artist: Jartisto
Genre: New Age, Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: Music of the Night: Pops on Broadway 1990
Artist: John Williams The Boston Pops Orchestra
Genre: Pop, Theatre/Soundtrack, Classical
Title: 20th Century Fox: 75 Years Of Great Film Music
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: The Music Of DC Comics: 75th Anniversary Collection
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: Bernstein: Greatest Hits
Artist: Michael Tilson Thomas, Richard Kapp Leonard Bernstein
Genre: Classical
