I see Dimitri Tiomkin credited with writing the music for this movie, but I didn't hear anything other than excerpts from Beethoven's Symphony No. 7, 2nd movement throughout. Was there some section of original music that I miseed somewhere?
Just because I'm distractable doesn't mean I
Besides the theme from Beethoven's Symphony No. 7, I also thought I heard parts of a speeded up version of Mozart's Rondo a la Turca and of course, Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet Overture-Fantasy during the concert scene.
I'd say that everything we didn't recognize as classical music was scored by Tiomkin. There was a lot of generically tense orchestral music toward the end that presumably he scored.
Tiomkin wrote the love theme and scored the entire picture. In using Beethoven's Seventh he adapted and interpolated it with his usual transfigurations. Stylistically, the score is very similar to his previous IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE. Tiomkin also arranged all the source cues, though most of these were conducted by Constantine Bakaleinikoff. Chelsea Rialto Studios is preparing a complete soundtrack CD, licensed through Volta Music, and will be releasing through Screen Archives Entertainment.
shareI normally enjoy Beethoven, but in this context I think Tiomkin went overboard with it to the point it was distracting. Not only that, but when I hear a lot of public domain music being used in a film, I can't help thinking "low budget".
Update, three years later: I just saw the movie again, and I found the Beethoven, in particular, very fitting to the mood. I completely disagree with my previous comment.