John Williams: "Obviously, it's Darth Vader to whom I feel the closest"

By Manuel Brug (Die Welt)

We rarely have the chance to meet a man as humble as John Williams, born in New York in 1932. Considered the greatest living film music composer on the planet, John Williams, who has already won 5 Oscars (he was named 52 times), is a true legend.

He wrote his first score late, in 1958, and composed the soundtrack

to Family Plot

, Alfred Hitchcock's last film, in 1976. Since then he has become Steven Spielberg's songwriter, has composed the music for the film

Schindler's List

and created the sounds of blockbusters like

The Teeth of the Sea

,

Encounter of the Third Kind

,

Indiana Jones

,

Harry Potter

,

Jurassic Park

and, of course,

Star Wars

, the George Lucas saga.

Also read: What you probably didn't know about the origins of

Star Wars

In seven decades, he has composed more than 100 film scores, most of them monumental - all sketched out by hand, the old-fashioned way, and prepared for orchestrators.

In addition, John Williams, who received a solid

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