Classical music used in the movies
 

Just heard on classic fm Mozart.

There is a whole range of classics from Mozart to Beethoven and many more one that keeps coming up, the most used is the little musical genius (Wolfgang “Amadeus” Mozart) “Piano Sonata no.11 in A major (K331) (300i) Third moment: “Alla Turca” by Wolfgang Mozart.

It’s a charming piece that heard on the end credits of The Truman Show and fits it very well with a pleasing delight.

So how many classical music ones have you heard in the movies not to mention Amadeus 1984 and even in space (Mozart) can be heard (Alien) 1979.:D

L´Accompagnatrice
Mozart: Laudate Dominum
Schubert: Der Hirt auf dem Felsen
Schumann: Einsame Blumen, from Waldszenen
Schumann: Von fremden Landern, from Kinders

Ace Ventura Pet Detective
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9
Mozart: Eine kleine Nachtmusik, 2nd & 3rd mvts
Mozart: A Musical Joke

Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
Boccherini: Minuet
Mozart: Eine kleine Nachtmusik

Addams Family Values
Mendelssohn: Wedding March
Wagner: Bridal Chorus

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Verdi: Sempre libera, from La Traviata

Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle
J. Strauss II: The Blue Danube

Affliction
Grieg: Death of Aase, from Peer Gynt

The Age of Innocence
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 8, 2nd mvt.
J. Strauss II: Artists' Life
J. Strauss II: The Blue Danube
J. Strauss I: Radetzky March
J. Strauss I: Tales from the Vienna Woods

Airplane II
Wagner: Prelude to the Flying Dutchman
J. Strauss II: The Blue Danube

Alien
Mozart: Eine kleine Nachtmusik

All About the Benjamins
Puccini: In Quelle Trine Morbide from Manon Lescaut

Along Came Polly
Beethoven: Cello Sonata No. 2

Amadeus
Mozart: Gran Partita, Adagio
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 20, 2nd mvt.
Mozart: Requiem
Mozart: Symphony No. 25
Mozart: Symphony No. 29

Les Amants de Pont-Neuf
Britten: Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge
Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 3
J. Strauss II: The Blue Danube

American Gigolo
Mozart: Clarinet Concerto, 2nd mvt.

The American President
Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, 1st mvt.
Delibes: Flower Duet, from Lakme
Gounod: Ballet Music, from Faust

An American Werewolf in London
Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe

Anger Management
Bernstein: I Feel Pretty from West Side Story

Anna
Chopin: Waltz, Op. 69 No. 1

Anna Karenina
Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky
Rachmaninov: Piano Sonata No. 2
Rachmaninov: Prelude, Op. 23, No. 1
Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin
Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6"Pathétique"
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto

Annie Hall
Holst: Jupiter from The Planets

Anniversary Party
Bach: Adagio from Violin Sonata No. 1

Anonimo Veneziano
A. Marcello: Oboe Concerto in D Minor, 2nd mvt.

Another Woman
Bach: Cello Suite No. 6
Satie: Gymnopédie No. 3

AntiTrust
Rachmaninov: Prelude Op. 32, No. 5

Antonia´s Line
Bach: Cello Suite No. 1, 1st mvt.

Any Given Sunday
Mussorgsky/Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition

Anywhere But Here
J. Strauss II: The Blue Danube
Puccini: L'ho abdandonato from Manon Lescaut

Apocalypse Now
Wagner: Ride of the Valkyries, from Die Walküre

Apt Pupil
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9
Wagner: Prelude and Liebestod, from Tristan & Isolde

Armageddon
Rossini: Overture to William Tell

Arthur
Chopin: Waltz Op. 64, No. 2

A.I.
R. Strauss: Rosenkavalier Suite Op. 59
Tchaikovsky: Waltz from Sleeping Beauty

As Good As It Gets
Gershwin: An American in Paris

Assassins
Puccini: O mio babbino caro from Gianni Schicchi

Associate, The
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 25

Asylum
Mussorgsky/Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition
Mussorgsky/Ravel: Night on Bald Mountain

At First Sight
Satie: Gymnopédie No. 1

Atlantic City
Rimsky-Korsakov: Song of the Indian Guest, from Sadko

Attraction
Catalani: Ebbené from La Wally

Au revoir les enfants
Schubert: Moment musical No. 2

Austin Powers
J. Strauss II: The Blue Danube

Austin Powers in Goldmember
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5
Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance No. 1

Autumn Sonata
Bach: Sarabande from Cello Suite No. 4
Chopin: Prelude, Op. 28 No. 2
Handel: Recorder Sonata, Op 1, No. 11
Schumann: Aufschwung
Schumann: Piano Concerto, 3rd mvt.

Avengers
Chopin: Waltz Op. 64, No. 2

Awakenings
Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante for Winds
Puccini: O soave fanciulla from La bohème


Babe
Saint-Saëns: Carnival of the Animals, No. 3
Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3, 3rd mvt.

Babe: Pig in the City
Rossini: Largo al factotum, from Barber of Seville
Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3, 3rd mvt.
Verdi: Anvil Chorus, from Il Trovatore

Babette´s Feast
Mozart: La ci darem la mano, from Don Giovanni

Backstreet Dreams
Leoncavallo: Vesti la giubba from Pagliacci
Verdi: La donna é mobile from Rigoletto

Bad Santa
Rossini: Overture to The Barber of Seville
Chopin: Nocturne No. 2 in E flat major, Op. 9 No. 2

Badlands
Satie: Trois morceaux en forme de poire

Barfly
Mozart: Exsultate, jubilate
Mozart: Symphony No. 25
Scriabin: Symphony No. 4

Barry Lyndon
Handel: Sarabande, from Harpsichord Suite No. 11
Schubert: Piano Trio No. 2, 2nd mvt.

Basic
Ravel: Bolero

Basquiat
Gó;recki: Symphony No. 3
Verdi: D'amor sull'ali rosee from Il Trovatore

Batman
Mozart: Eine kleine Nachtmusik

Bear
Handel: The Harmonious Blacksmith

Beast with Five Fingers
Bach: Chaconne from Violin Partita No. 2

Beetlejuice
Wagner: Bridal Chorus from Lohengrin

Before Sunrise
Bach: Goldberg Variations, Variation 25
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 8, 3rd mvt.
Purcell: Dido and Aeneas
J. Strauss II: Wiener Blut

Bend it Like Beckham
Puccini: Nessun dorma from Turandot

Beyond Bedlam
Fauré Requiem -- Libera me

Beyond Utopia
Bach: Orchestral Suite No. 3

Bicentennial Man
Dvorák: Song to the Moon from Rusalka
Haydn: Symphony No. 73

The Big Hit
Haydn: Trumpet Concerto 8

The Big Lebowski
Korngold: Glück, das mir verblieb from Die tote Stadt 1
Mozart: Requiem
Mussorgsky / Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition

Bill and Ted´s Excellent Adventure
Rossini: Overture to William Tell
Beethoven: Für Elise

Blackball
Mozart: Eine kleine Nachtmusik
Mozart: Horn Concerto No. 4
Elgar: Land of Hope and Glory

Bloodsport 3
Debussy: Clair de lune

Blown Away
Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture

Blue Lagoon
Chopin: Nocturne Op. 9, No. 2

Blues Brothers
Wagner: Ride of the Valkyries from Die Walküre

Blues Brothers 2000
Khachaturian: Sabre Dance from Gayaneh

Bodily Harm
Chopin: Nocturne No.

Bonfire of the Vanities
Mozart: Eine kleine Nachtmusik

Boogie Nights
Bach: Jesu bleibet meine Freude

Boxing Helena
Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3

Boy Meets Girl
Puccini: Nessun dorma from Turandot

Brassed Off
Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance No. 1
Grainger: Irish Tune from County Derry ("Londonderry Air")
Rodrigo: Concerto de Aranjuez
Rossini: William Tell Overture

Brazil
Rimsky-Korsakov: Song of India from Sadko

The Breakfast Club
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 8

Breaking Away
Mendelssohn: Saltarello, from Symphony No. 4

Breaking the Waves
Bach: Flute Sonata BWV 1031

Breathless
Mozart: Clarinet Concerto

A Bridge Too Far
Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 6

Brief Encounter
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2

Bright Lights, Big City
Mahler: Nun will die Sonn' from Kindertotenlieder 8

Bright Young Things
J. Strauss II: Thunder and Lightning
J. Strauss I: Radetzky March
Ketèlbey: In a Persian Market
Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance

Brown Sugar
Bach: Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
Wagner: Bridal Chorus from Lohengrin

Bulworth
Sousa: Stars and Stripes Forever

The Butcher Boy
Rossini: Overture to William Tell
Schubert: Ave Maria

Please note how I didn't postwhore and did just one post for the A's and B's.

Or did you mean, just post a movie or two?

I'm done,..... anyone else, have at it.

Woody Allen's "Crimes and Misdemeanors" used a Schubert string quartet (15?) very well.

I remember a French film "Monsiur Somebody" had a Brahms piano quintet (Opus 26?) as a central theme about unrequited love.

There's a lot of "drop the needle" type stuff (I want to say, mostly Tchaikovsky) in Woody Allen's Scoop. (I only know this because I saw it recently.) I think he did that in Match Point as well, but I'm not positive.

There's also a lot in A Clockwork Orange. And pretty much every other Kubrick film.

Hunger: Schubert's 2nd Piano Trio in E flat, second movement, andante con moto

That’s was good find Holst “The Right Stuff” with “Holst the planets” Casino had a few classical ones in it as too “Cape Fear” “Die Hard” “Die Hard 2” the list is endless.

Or you could go with Wallace and Gromit "Curse of the Wererabbit" the greehouse scene with Venus from Holst "The Plants".

"Fantasia On A Theme by Thomas Tallis" was used very effectively I thought in "Master and Commander"

Or, from the reverse perspective, never knew of Ligeti before Kubrick opened my eyes.

Movie music
 

Quite a bit of opera music in the movies as well.

I was a customers location a few weeks ago and they had cable TV on the "Sopranos". Now I have never watched the sopranos but the music in one scene was from "Turandot".

I made that comment to my customer and he said he thought it was pretty but didn't understand it. I explained the song to him and let him hear another version of the song from my iPod. He was really amazed.

Most people's perception of opera comes from a Bugs Bunny cartoon. :D

Didn't mean to hijack your thread. Sorry.

I thought the Tallis Fantasia was the wrong choice for those scenes in Master and Commander, besides a century too new for the rest of the music, it was used in gloomy scenes.

Ligeti in Kubrick is a good call. I didn't figure that out until 95 when I bought some Ligeti albums used (minty) and became a fan.

Some of the ones that have stuck with me...

Fearless: Henryk Gorecki's "3rd Symphony"
Platoon: Samuel Barber's "Adagio"
Soylent Green: Beethoven's "Pastoral (6th Symphony)"
Elvira Madigan: Mozart's "Piano Concerto No. 21"
Barry Lyndon: Handel's "Sarabande"
The Good Shepherd: Arvo Part's "Silouans Song"
Apocalypse Now: Wagner's "The Ride of the Valkyries"
Badlands: Satie's "Three Pieces in the Shape of a Pear"
Badlands: Orff's "Musica Poetica
The Thin Red Line: Part's "Annum per Annum"
Gallipoli: Albinoni's "Adagio in G minor"
What Dreams May Come: Schnittke's "Hymn II"

Obviously, I've left out some majors, including Kubrick's "2001", which has forever ruined "The Blue Danube Waltz" for me. ;)

Hi Holst,

Incredible piece of work you put together there. Thank you.
You have just become my new hero.

A couple of my favorites.

Allegro non troppo
Fantasia
And all the Looney Tunes stuff.