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Q&As About 'Star Wars': Who were other candidates for composing the music of the original Star Wars movie?

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Who were other candidates for composing the music of the original Star Wars movie? Besides John Williams? None. George Lucas, who had a keen understanding of the intimate relationship between movie imagery and music, planned to follow Stanley Kubrick’s example in 1968’s  2001: A Space Odyssey  and use different compositions of classical music throughout the film. A little Holst here, a little Wagner there, some Tchaikovsky in this bit, and so on. One of the original ideas that Lucas had for the Star Wars - which was based on his use of rock 'n' roll songs in American Graffiti , was to use different classical music compositions to match the visuals. And in fact, during the early stages of assembling the film after principal photography was complete, Lucas created a "temp track" that consisted of pieces such as Gustav Holst's Mars: The Bringer of War from his suite of tone poems The Planets.  This approach worked well for  2001,  but it’s do