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The Fantomas Waltz
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Theme from the film "F", Howard A. Rodman Director, starring Terrence Stamp.
fantomas waltz bossa nova
Original instrumental music. Classical Orchestral to Rock, to Bossa Nova & Movie Music.
Ellis & Streit=Pont Mirabeau,+ various other artists who wander into one of our recording sessions. The genre question is a nightmare. We play EVERY GENRE! Classical orchestral to Acoustic/Folk. Rock to Bossa Nova.
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Beats • Beats General
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Peak #252
Peak in subgenre #87
Author
Marc Ellis
Rights
1998-2003 Marc Ellis Laxmi Music ASCAP
Uploaded
January 04, 2004
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MP3 2.9 MB • 128 kbps • 0:00
Story behind the song
I wrote this song for a screenplay by Howard A. Rodman. I'd read the novel "Fantomas" before I wrote the song. It was 1910 Paris in La Belle Epoque. Fantomas with a rose and a tuxedo, towering over the city; Lady Beltham in her long dress, trying to mourn her husband, whom Fantomas had murdered, but also madly in love with the man who murdered him. Above all, Gino Starace's painting of Fantomas with his masque and dagger casting his shadow over the world just before the Great War began. The story, the era required an elegant but passionate waltz. That's what I wrote. Hope you like it. For those unfamiliar with the legend, Fantomas was a fictional character from French pulp novels from 1911 until around 1930. The surrealists adopted him as their hero in the 1920's. A number of French, Spanish, Polish books & movies have been made from the Fantomas character. Kurt Weill once scored surrealist Robert Desnos' poem, "Complaint of Fantomas".
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