I am proud to have the complete film score collection of 3 composers:

Jon Brion (Magnolia)
Tan Dun (Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon)
Angela Morley (Watership Down)

I also have all the scores written by John Powell and Harry Gregson-Williams (together, not separately)

Jonathan Elias (LEPRECHAUN 2, TWOO MOON JUNCTION)?

Andrew Gross (8 HEADS IN A DUFFEL BAG - yes, I bought it!)

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Originally posted by Marian Schedenig:
How many Christopher Gordon CDs have been released?

[b]NP: Walking with Dinosaurs (Benjamin Bartlett)[/B]

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Currently, only On the beach and Moby Dick have been released. I'm proud to say I own the complete discography of Christopher Gordon

Now that my JNH collection is pretty much complete I plan on completing my Isham collection. These are the only two composers that I care about being complete in.

Is it necessary to own every score by a composer?

And follow-up questions:

What does this accomplish?

I could suppose that the answer would follow something like "having total knowledge of the body of work of the artist..." but does that really broaden the pallate?

I once saw a box set of the COMPLETE works of Mozart. Everything Mozart ever scribbled from the day he could write music (which was fairly young, for him....but he died fairly young, too, so maybe it evens out...it's still impressive, though.) --It was about 50 cds and something like $1700....Basically, too "pie-in-the-sky".

Now, could I hope that one day a COMPLETE works of John Williams be available to the public? Perhaps....it would pretty much render my life's collection fairly obsolete...but still...

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Originally posted by DaveK:
Currently, only On the beach and Moby Dick have been released.

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Allright, then I'm another Gordon completist. Of course there's much Williams and Goldsmith in my collection, but both sections are still far from being complete. I'm trying to get everything by classical composer Anton Bruckner, but I'm not in a hurry, so there are still several gaps there as well.

Lancelot: I saw that (or another) Mozart collection in a store a couple of years ago. It was a HUGE box, and horribly expensive.

Would you find a way to shill out the $1000+, if that were the only way to obtain that extra 5%...?

(Let's pretend this is a world without CDRs, for those who would prefer that cop-out luxury....)

And just as a personal note here, I've purchased the Star Wars scores in every (legitimate) incarnation of their existance, from vinyl, to special editions. (even put Empire on an 8-track, once upon a prehistoric era...)

It was released in Australia as BMG 74321703702. I haven't picked it up yet since I haven't found it for sale from any US merchants and I don't want to buy it from Australia because of shipping costs.

for example, works by GF Handel are still being discovered. His brief "Gloria" is a recent example.

Though, I say if you like a composers' works, then by all means get them if you can.
nothing wrong with being interested in a person's music.

At least Philips had the temerity to release evrything Mozart ever wrote, even if some recordings are not considered the best by critics. At least the music and awareness of said music is getting out.

In the end, I bought about 20 volumes from that Complete Mozart Edition, and yes, I did buy a lot of compositions I'd already owned.

There's no accounting for taste, I suppose. In the vast majority of cases, there probably is no compelling logical reason to be a completist, for anything. There's plenty of humdrum Williams music out there, and the juvenilia of Wagner and Keats and Picasso isn't necessarily brilliant.

But in a small perecentage of cases, society (whether the historians, the musicologists, etc.) has decided that a person's entire work is historically valuable. In Mozart's case (to take the example given), many people have thought it valuable to understand how a child prodigy, who wrote perfectly pedestrian works at the age of 10, matured into the musical genius we now consider him. It follows that even scratch paper used by him to wipe his nose is "worthy" to be published. And if published, why not recorded?

Why not put as much stuff out there by a particular artist as the market will bear?

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Originally posted by jonathan_little:
There is actually a third CD out there with Christopher Gordon music on it. It's music he wrote for Sydney: A Story of a City, an IMAX film.

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Well, except that one. A third Christopher Gordon score? Must look for it!

I am personally a John Williams and Danny Elfman completist (and also Elliot Goldenthal, since his output is fairly "controllable").