A key and compelling component to Brady Corbet’s directorial debut is Scott Walker’s first score since his remarkable Pola X soundtrack back in 1999.
Partly inspired by Jean-Paul Sartre’s short story of the same name, The Childhood of a Leader is a tense psychological drama tracing the formative years of a young boy and set against the backdrop of the 1919 Paris Peace Conference that led to the establishment of the Treaty of Versailles.
Walker continues to work with long-term collaborators Peter Walsh (co-producer) and Mark Warman (musical director), with the latter conducting an orchestra comprised of 46 string players and 16 brass for the studio recording.
- Orchestral tuning up
- Opening
- Dream sequence
- Village Walk
- RUN
- Down the stairs
- Up the stairs
- The letter
- Versailles
- Cutting flowers
- Boy, Mirror, Cars arriving
- Third tantrum
- Printing press
- On the way to the meeting
- The meeting
- Post meeting
- Finale
- New dawn (synth layout for cut scene)
