Uploaded February 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Music by Wojciech Kilar
Arranged by Piano Palt
Master director Francis Ford Coppola's (1992) take on the tale of dreaded Count Dracula is in my eyes not really a horror movie, but an epic love story.
In medieval Transylvania the count returns from a victory against the Turks to find that his beloved wife Elisabeta has committed suicide after his enemies falsely reported his death. The priest proceeds to tell him that his wife's soul is damned to Hell for committing suicide. Enraged, Dracula desecrates the chapel and renounces God, declaring that he will rise from the grave to avenge Elisabeta with all the powers of darkness. Centuries later, in London, Prince Vlad (Dracula) discovers Mina, he recognises her as the reincarnation of his beloved. He speaks to her:
"I have crossed oceans of time to find you"
And in the end it is she who redeems him with her love, and frees him from his existence in darkness.
I've come back to this score time and time again, and now I've decided it's my all time number one film score. Wojciech Kilar's music perfectly captures the atmosphere of this haunting, dark, beautiful and tragic love story. From the beginning, and through the whole score, the key of A minor resounds relentlessly (Kilar's favorite key), and nowhere in music is the lowest key on the keyboard (A) hit so many times. Only at the very end (Love Eternal) does it give way for an etheral A major.
"Love Remembered" is the first piece with the recurring love theme of the movie.
Sheet music:
Music by Wojciech Kilar
Arranged by Piano Palt
Master director Francis Ford Coppola's (1992) take on the tale of dreaded Count Dracula is in my eyes not really a horror movie, but an epic love story.
In medieval Transylvania the count returns from a victory against the Turks to find that his beloved wife Elisabeta has committed suicide after his enemies falsely reported his death. The priest proceeds to tell him that his wife's soul is damned to Hell for committing suicide. Enraged, Dracula desecrates the chapel and renounces God, declaring that he will rise from the grave to avenge Elisabeta with all the powers of darkness. Centuries later, in London, Prince Vlad (Dracula) discovers Mina, he recognises her as the reincarnation of his beloved. He speaks to her:
"I have crossed oceans of time to find you"
And in the end it is she who redeems him with her love, and frees him from his existence in darkness.
I've come back to this score time and time again, and now I've decided it's my all time number one film score. Wojciech Kilar's music perfectly captures the atmosphere of this haunting, dark, beautiful and tragic love story. From the beginning, and through the whole score, the key of A minor resounds relentlessly (Kilar's favorite key), and nowhere in music is the lowest key on the keyboard (A) hit so many times. Only at the very end (Love Eternal) does it give way for an etheral A major.
"Love Remembered" is the first piece with the recurring love theme of the movie.
Sheet music:
