Hi Rebsche,

As far as I know, the original music was written by Hans Erdmann
but apparently new music was made a couple of times for
restored versions.

IMDb says:
Original Music by
James Bernard (1997)
Hans Erdmann
Carlos U. Garza
Timothy Howard (1991)
Richard Marriott (1989) (as Club Foot Orchestra)
Richard O'Meara
Hans Posegga (1989)
Peter Schirmann (1969)
Bernardo Uzeda (2006 version)
Bernd Wilden
-----

I own the James Bernard CD but unfortunately the booklet
doesn't say anything about the history. I also have the original
1922 score somewhere on MP3.

Finally don't get confused by the 1979 remake of the movie
starring Klaus Kinski which has a score by Popol Vuh.

Hope this helps a bit.

What do you mean that it doesn't "fit"?

Mike

hellomike, November 12, 2009; 12:10 PM

I didn't watch the whole Archive film, but does this seem to match anything?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjSZ0dQV_pU&hl

I'm not sure what you found to be jazzy, though I did notice Orlok's entry was narrated by solo saxophone. At that time, saxophone was not at all the smutty instrument it is often now perceived to be. Prokofiev, for a fine example, was using it in all of his stuff. The same year as NOSFERATU, Ravel originated what is now the standard arrangement of Mussorgsky's PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION, including parts for saxophone.

zuvqwyx3, November 16, 2009; 12:34 PM

Thread resurrection time! An article on Nosferatu's most well known scores:

https://www.brentonfilm.com/articles/nosferatu-history-and-home-video-
guide-part-7

But the OP sounds as if he may be referring to the Atlas Film version:

https://www.brentonfilm.com/articles/nosferatu-history-and-home-video-
guide-part-3#public-domain-version

brenty, August 13, 2019; 6:48 AM

Does it happen to be this one?

It was composed by the recently deceased Peter Schirmann.

https://youtu.be/BJMmYzaL3xE


c.mexico02, April 23, 2022; 7:35 AM