Editing Anthony Hopkins (section)

=== Composing ===
[[File:Anthony Hopkins Centre.jpg|thumb|Anthony Hopkins Centre at the [[Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama]], [[Cardiff]]]]
In an interview, Hopkins stated, "I've been composing music all my life and if I'd been clever enough at school I would like to have gone to music college. As it was I had to settle for being an actor."<ref name="Guardian interview 2012" /> In 1986, he released a single called "Distant Star", which peaked at No. 75 in the [[UK singles chart]].<ref name="British Hit Singles & Albums">{{cite book |last=Roberts |first=David |title=British Hit Singles & Albums |publisher=Guinness World Records Limited |year=2006 |isbn=1-904994-10-5 |edition=19th |location=London |page=259}}</ref>

In 2007, he announced he would retire temporarily from the screen to tour around the world.<ref>{{cite news |date=3 December 2007 |title=De gira como pianista |url=http://www.elnuevodia.com/diario/noticia/musica/flash/de_gira_como_pianista/324637 |agency=Associated Press}}{{dead link|date=June 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> Hopkins has also written music for the concert hall, in collaboration with Stephen Barton as orchestrator. These compositions include ''The Masque of Time'', given its world premiere with the [[Dallas Symphony Orchestra]] in October 2008, and ''Schizoid Salsa''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Sir Anthony Hopkins Scores big With Dallas Symphony Orchestra |url=https://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/10/prweb1491484.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230326031350/https://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/10/prweb1491484.htm |archive-date=26 March 2023 |accessdate=5 May 2021 |website=PRWeb}}</ref>

On 31 October 2011, [[André Rieu]] released an album including a waltz which Hopkins had composed in 1964, at the age of 26. Hopkins had never heard his composition, "[[And the Waltz Goes On]]", before it was premiered by Rieu's orchestra in [[Vienna]];<ref>{{cite news |date=6 July 2011 |title=Hopkins' waltz gets Vienna premiere |url=http://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/Music/2011/07/06/Hopkins-waltz-gets-Vienna-premiere/UPI-69081309971888/ |access-date=8 January 2012 |work=United Press International}}</ref><ref name="independent.uk">{{cite news |last1=Jaques |first1=Adam |date=9 November 2012 |title=How We Met: André Rieu & Sir Anthony Hopkins |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/how-we-met-andr-rieu-sir-anthony-hopkins-8294824.html |access-date=2 December 2015 |work=The Independent |quote=I...wrote this piece, "And the Waltz Goes On", in 1964}}</ref> Rieu's album was given the same name as Hopkins's piece.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Jaques |first1=Adam |date=9 November 2012 |title=How We Met: André Rieu & Sir Anthony Hopkins |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/how-we-met-andr-rieu-sir-anthony-hopkins-8294824.html |access-date=6 May 2020 |website=[[Independent.co.uk]]}}</ref>

In January 2012, Hopkins released an album of classical music, entitled ''Composer'', performed by the [[City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra]], and released on CD via the UK radio station [[Classic FM (UK)|Classic FM]].<ref name="composer">{{cite news |title=Sir Anthony Hopkins' classical music released on CD |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-16584155 |publisher=BBC |date=6 August 2015}}</ref> The album consists of nine of his original works and film scores, with one of the pieces titled "Margam" in tribute to his home town near [[Port Talbot]] in Wales.<ref name="composer"/>