Enjott Schneider THE MIRACLE OF FILM MUSIC Composing music for pictures is about the same as setting a text to music or expressing a poetic-lyrical idea: it is about looking “behind the façade” of a situation, capturing the spiritual and psychological aspects behind a situation or thing. Good and independent film music is never just an external description and duplication of the image: it must capture the essence, the “right vibration”, touch the deep inner core of an invisible world that remains hidden to the visual eye, which is only focused on the external. Film music always knows more than what is going on in the picture: as if in a magical process, it connects people with each other, links past memories with the future and hope. It is a sorceress that can lend every image and every situation a characteristic timbre. This collection of film music from three decades not only reproduces the original themes from films, but also presents them ‘concertante’ in newly created work contexts such as suites or independent tone poems.