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Stanley Myers was an English composer who scored over sixty films and television series and is best known for his guitar piece "Cavatina", composed for the 1970 film The Walking Stick and later used as the theme for The Deer Hunter.
Myers wrote incidental music for television: for example, The Reign of Terror, a 1964 serial in the television series Doctor Who; the theme to All Gas and Gaiters; and the theme for the BBC's Question Time.
Listen to all 16 songs from the The Deer Hunter soundtrack, playlist, ost and score.
He is known for composing music for the cult horror films House of Whipcord, Frightmare, House of Mortal Sin and Schizo for filmmaker Pete Walker. He is best known for "Cavatina" (1970), an evocative guitar piece that served as the signature theme for Michael Cimino's 1978 film The Deer Hunter, and for which Myers won the Ivor Novello Award.
John Williams was born on 24 April 1941 in Melbourne, Australia. He is a writer and composer, known for The Deer Hunter (1978), Great Expectations (1998) and A Fish Called Wanda (1988).
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Aug 22, 2014 · The most famous piece of music to feature in The Deer Hunter, which stars Christopher Walken and Robert de Niro as prisoners of war forced to play Russian roulette, is Stanley Myers' classical guitar piece 'Cavatina'.