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Soundtrack question

posted 16 years ago by imspartacus56
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Did Michel Legrand write the whole score?
I ask since the music playing when our heroes set off to deliver the letter to the Duke of Buckingham, before getting picked off one by one, sounds a lot like a piece of Verdi I have heard. I have no further details, but perhaps one of you musicologists out there could enlighten me

[–] Blueghost 16 years ago

That part may have been incorporated into the music. Last I checked he did write the whole score, but it's possible he could've borrowed from some well known historical composures.

[–] ShrunkenHeadonKnightBus 14 years ago

The "riding theme" in the soundtrack was based on music from Act II of Verdi's opera Aida.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072281/trivia?tr1060033

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