Patrick Gowers
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William Patrick Gowers (born 5 May 1936 in London) is an English composer mainly known for his film scores.
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[edit] Film music
Gowers' works include the following music scores: Comic Act (1998), Forever Green (1989), The Hound of the Baskervilles (1988), The Sign of Four (1987), Whoops Apocalypse (1986), Anna Karenina (1985), Smiley's People (1982), I remember Nelson (1982), Therese Raquin (1980), Stevie (1978), Children of Rage (1975), A Bigger Splash (1974), Farlige kys (1972), Giv Gud en Chance Om Soendagen (1970), The Virgin and the Gypsy (1970), Balladen Om Carl-Henning (1969), Hamlet (1969), Thomas er Fredloes (1968), Marat / Sade (1966).
His concert music includes works written for the guitarist John Williams: Chamber Concerto for Guitar and Rhapsody for Guitar, Electric Guitars and Electric Organ. He has done research work on Erik Satie (Eric Satie: his studies, notebooks and critics, Ph. D., Cambridge Univ., 1965).
[edit] Choral and Organ Music
Gowers is also noted for his choral music, including a setting of the text Veni Creator Spiritus and the much-performed Viri Galilaei. He has also written a Cantata and several other anthems. He is also famous for his much loved "Toccata" for organ, commissioned by Simon Preston and joined over a decade later by a fugue, as well as his "Occasional Trumpet Voluntary".
[edit] Music for Television
Patrick Gowers composed the music to The Adventures of, The Return of, the Casebook of and the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes starring Jeremy Brett. The series ran from 1984 to 1994, and the soundtrack was released in 1987.
Tracks:
1 221B Baker Street 0:47
2 Elsie Cubitt 3:56
3 Libera Me 4:13
4 North by Ten and by Ten 2:44
5 Old Sherman's Dog Toby 1:24
6 Sutton's Nightmare 3:35
7 River Chase 5:54
8 The Death of Sherlock Holmes 5:25
9 Irene Adler 4:46
10 Holmes in Europe 1:25
11 John Hector McFarlane and His Mother 2:01
12 Setting Out 2:08
13 Lucretia Venucci and Her Family 3:44
14 Mr Henry Baker's Christmas 2:10
15 The Illustrious Lord Bellinger 2:13
16 On the Trail 1:19
17 Neville St. Clair's Nostalgia 2:14
18 The Bar of Gold, Upper Swandam Lane 4:07
19 Baker Street Reunion 1:48
Amongst other TV series for which he composed the music are Thérese Raquin, I Remember Nelson, Smiley's People and Forever Green.
[edit] Family
He is the great-grandson of the eminent neurologist Sir William Richard Gowers, grandson of civil servant and writer Sir Ernest Gowers and the father of the mathematician Timothy Gowers, the writer Rebecca Gowers and the violinist Katharine Gowers.
