Who is John Williams?

was born in New York 8 February 1932, John Williams launched the piano lessons when he was eight. He created orchestrations for the bands of the Armed Forces by serving in the United States Air Force, and after his release he studied in Juilliard. He then studied the song and took part in UCLA. After making several recordings with André Previn, he worked for the first time on scoring feature films. After some early work scoring for comedies and some famous catastrophic films, Williams appeared as a popular film composer with a wide palette.

is its connection with Steven Spielberg, since 1974, when they worked on The Sugarland Express and George Lucas, who carried fruit in the films Star Wars and Indiana Jones . While he created for adults, he also created music for children for children, such as home alone, hook and Harry Potter and Stoner's Stone .

After John Williams was nominated for 30 grammy, including nominations for two different fIlmy, John Williams won 10. These prizes came for his work on Star Wars, jaws, close meetings of the third kind, Superman, Star Wars: Episona V-the Impire Strikes back, Raiders of the Ark, E.T. Memoirs of and Geisha . Golden Globes also won for jaws, Star Wars, E.T. and Memoirs of Geisha.

With 45 Oscar nominations won the Oscars for his work on Fiddler on the roof, jaws, Star Wars, E.T. and Schindler's list . In addition, John Williams was nominated, but did not win, Razzie for the worst musical score in 1983 for his work on Monsignor .

Other successes of John Williams include the composition of the Olympic fanfars and concert works. From 1980 to 1993, the Boston POK orchestra, in the footsteps of Arthur Fiedler.

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