Mariposa Symphony Orchestra wrote:
Interesting new thread...
Personally (and yes, I am one:) I've never held much stock in Raff's contribution(s) being as major as he claimed. For one thing, the Liszt works in question are far more creative, imaginative and rhapsodically-structured than anything Raff ever produced, save the 'Leonore' symphony. And far richer in their use of the orchestra.
and then there is the case of Charles Koechlin. Koechlin is known to have orchestrated some of Faure's music under Faure's supervision (I think the most well known is the _Pellease suite_). He also _definitely_ orchestrated Debussy's _Khamma_ (He also may have composed some of that) and _may have_ something to do with _Nuages_. There are many more examples for Koechlin of less-well know composers.
And to add to the John Williams thing: Having worked in/for Hollywood composers for a while, I can tell you that Williams main way of composing is to write a melody line and then use letters to tell the arrangers/copyists what and how to fill in. I thought that this was rather well known, but it may just be the circle of people I used to work with :-) You can verify this by listening! Almost all of his scores do sound the same. A very important point to make is that the orchestrations are his own, in that he did come up with the original sounds in the first place - he just uses the letter system to save time.
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