Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: mad for the ladies…

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: a spiritual game of ‘cat-and-mouse’…

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: saving poor Roland from himself…

The score for this film was nominated for an Oscar, but lost to another movie just as popular. If sheer musical girth had been a factor, the score heard here certainly would have won as it is present under nearly the entire movie, just under four hours of music. Even more amazing, the composer worked on eleven other film scores in this same year.

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: rough mental waters ahead…

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: sorrowful countenances and agile windmills…

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: history meets the movie soundstage

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: from the dance hall to the concert hall

Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: musical down-sizing, anyone?

While finishing up this selection in a village outside Vienna, this composer also wrote a strange document that he never sent. It contains the composer's realization of that his worsening condition. Of course, that wasn’t his only mysterious letter – there’s still the one addressed to an unknown someone.