John Williams Research Paper

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John Williams has been one of the most influential American orchestral composers, pianists and conductors of the modern age, his career spans for over six decades. His main genre is writing music for films but also is fluent in contemporary classical music, jazz and post romanticism music. John Williams studied at Julliard and the Eastman School of Music before he returned to Los Angles where he began to work as an orchestrator at film studios. John Williams worked with other composers such as Franz Waxman, Bernard Herrmann, and Alfred Newman, and also with his fellow orchestrators Conrad Salinger and Bob Franklyn. But it wasn’t until 1958 when Williams did his first film composition and two years later got his first screen credit. During the