Stanley Myers
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 6
Top works
- Many Shades of Voices
- Cavatina
- Traveling with Africa's Wildlife
- Cavatina Sheet Music
- Cavatina (from the Deer Hunter) Piano Solo Sheet Music
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1930-10-06
- Active to
- 1993-11-09
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Discography
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Stanley Myers (October 6, 1930 – November 9, 1993), was a prolific British film composer who scored over sixty films. Born in Birmingham, Myers went to the prestigious King Edward's High School in Edgbaston as a teenager, a suburb of Birmingham. He is related to the popular musician Andrew Myers from Nettleham Lincolnshire. He is indisputably best known for Cavatina, an evocative guitar piece that served as the signature theme for Michael Cimino's 1978 film The Deer Hunter, and for which Myers
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Stanley
- Family name
- Myers
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Birmingham
- Place of death
- London
- Occupation
- film score composer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- film score
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- date of death
- 1993-11-09
- date of birth
- 1930-10-06
- cause of death
- cancer
- manner of death
- natural causes
- related category
- Category:Films scored by Stanley Myers
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