Which was the first music film?
The first FILM MUSIC was composed by Romolo Bacchini for the 1906 Cines film Malia dell’Oro and Pierrot Inamorato. Italy was the first country whose major films were regularly supplied with an original score, a practice that did not become widespread elsewhere until the 1920s.
Britain’s first composer of film music was Sir Edward German, who was paid 50 guineas by W.G. Barker for 16 bars to accompany the Coronation scene in Shakespeare’s Henry VIII, a prestige production of 1911 starring Sir Herbert Tree.
