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Marc Wilkinson (born 27 July 1929) is an Australian composer and conductor best known for his film scores, including ''The Blood on Satan's Claw'', and incidental music for the theatre, most notably for Peter Shaffer's ''The Royal Hunt of the Sun''. His compositional approach has combined traditional techniques with elements of the avant-garde. For most of his life resident in the UK, he has now retired from composition and currently lives in France. ==Biography== Born in Paris, Wilkinson studied composition at Columbia and Princeton Universities; he also took some private lessons with Varèse in New York. He published a number of analytical articles on works by Varèse and Boulez. In England, he became one of the first independent composers to make use of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop after it opened in 1958. For a time Wilkinson was resident composer and musical director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, then musical director of the Royal National Theatre (1963–74). One of the first scores he composed in that post was for Peter Shaffer's ''The Royal Hunt of the Sun'' (1964); the result deeply impressed the playwright, who has described Wilkinson's work as "perhaps the best score for a play to be written since Grieg embellished ''Peer Gynt''".〔Shaffer, Peter. ''The Collected Plays''. Harmony Books, 1982: p. x〕 Wilkinson subsequently wrote the incidental music to Shaffer's play ''Equus'' (1973). Other National Theatre productions for which Wilkinson wrote incidental music included Tom Stoppard's plays ''Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead'' (1967) and ''Jumpers'' (its premiere production, 1972). He also taught at the Royal Court Theatre studio, under the directorship of Keith Johnstone, from the autumn of 1964. Through his work at the National Theatre Wilkinson met Piers Haggard, who was working as an assistant director: the two worked together on the National Theatre production ''The Dutch Courtesan'' (1964).〔http://theatricalia.com/play/4k5/the-dutch-courtesan/production/9yj〕 Having directed several TV dramas, Haggard was about to direct his first feature film and invited Wilkinson to score.〔Wilkinson, Marc. Sleevenotes to Soundtrack album ''Blood on Satan's Claw'', Trunk Records ().〕 The result is one of Wilkinson's most celebrated film scores, ''Blood on Satan's Claw'' (1971),〔Spencer, Kristopher. ''Film and television scores, 1950-1979: a critical survey by genre''. McFarland, 2008: p. 254〕 acclaimed by Jonathan Rigby in ''English Gothic'' as "easily among the best ever composed for a British horror film".〔Rigby, Jonathan. ''English Gothic: A Century of Horror Cinema''. Reynolds & Hearn, 2004: p. 200〕 Wilkinson subsequently gave crucial advice to Paul Giovanni who had been commissioned to score the film ''The Wicker Man''.〔Bartholomew, David. "The Wicker Man" in ''Cinefantastique'' Vol. 6, no. 3, 1977: p. 24 ()〕 Wilkinson and Haggard subsequently worked together on further TV and film productions, including Quatermass and The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Marc Wilkinson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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