Music Composition & Scoring

Here is how this works in practice. We deliver music composition and scoring through Vienna, the world's pre-eminent music city, connecting shoots with composers, orchestrators and recording infrastructure of top depth. Our team sets up the full scoring workflow — spotting sessions with the director, theme development, orchestration, and the recording session itself — and manages the logistics of booking players, conductors and venues.

Here is the short of it. Vienna gives access to top-tier orchestral musicians and recording spaces with renowned acoustics, allowing scores to be tracked live rather than relying solely on sample libraries. We watch the recording, edit and conform the stems to picture, and deliver the score stem ready for the final mix, conformed to the loudness and tech specs of the project — whether for theatrical release, an ORF broadcast, or a streaming sites.

We also handle music rights and clearance through the AKM collecting society and Austro-Mechana for mechanical rights.

Here is the breakdown. No city carries deeper musical heritage than Vienna — the home of Beethoven, Haydn, Schubert, Brahms, Bruckner, Mahler and Johann Strauss II, the birthplace of the Second Viennese School of Schoenberg, Berg and Webern, and the city that shaped Mozart's career. The Vienna Philharmonic, the Vienna State Opera, the Musikverein and the Konzerthaus give scoring orchestras and recording venues of the highest global standing.

Here is what that looks like on the ground. While the Salzburg Festival sustains a wider Austrian classic infrastructure. This is the custom that produced the founding figures of Hollywood film scoring: Vienna-born Max Steiner, who won three Oscars and scored 'King Kong', 'Casablanca' and 'Gone with the Wind', and Erich Wolfgang Korngold, a two-time Oscar winner for work including 'The Adventures of Robin Hood'.

Here is what we have to work with. Music rights are administered through AKM, Austro-Mechana and the LSG for performer neighbouring rights. From scoring Austrian features recognised at the Academy Awards to global co-productions backed by the Österreichisches Filminstitut, Vienna's scoring infrastructure is unrivalled.