Which composer created a better score for their Musketeer film?
Legrand's work is especially impressive for the speed in which he composed it. But I find Schifrin's work to be just as compelling.
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Hard to say. Legrand's is more memorable, but it's also more dated.
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Legrand. Lalo has many other far more memorable themes and works.
I've never had enthusiasm for any Legrand score, and that includes his THREE MUSKETEERS.
In comparison, Schifrin's FOUR MUSKETEERS offers some grand material (especially the main theme and that for Milady) with an appreciable 17th-Century feel. Unfortunately, crucial cues in that film's latter half -- especially for the concluding D'Artagnan/Rochefort duel and the execution sequence -- sound disappointingly like Schifrin's regular 20th-Century action approach.