No Movie Soundtracks Without Beethoven , Part 2 of the film project A World Without Beethoven

How great an influence did Beethoven have on film music With his Symphony No. 6, the Pastoral, Beethoven consciously created images in the mind. What would be called program music was born. With the advent of sound film, the concept of using sound to conjure up associations of moods and landscapes in the listener took hold of Hollywood. Beethovens Pastoral Symphony even became film music itself: Walt Disney used it for the 1940 film Fantasia. The film composers of the 20th and 21st centuries tread in Beethovens footsteps. The most famous: John Williams. He has written the soundtracks for all the Star Wars films, for The Extraterrestrial, the first three Harry Potter films, Jaws, the four Indiana Jones films, Jurassic Park, and other blockbusters. Sarah Willis, French hornist of the Berlin Philharmonic, met John Williams at the Tanglewood Music Festival in Massachusetts to talk with him about Beethovens influence on film music. Sarah Willis demonstrates on her French horn