Editing Nosferatu (section)

==Music==
The original score was composed by [[Hans Erdmann]] and performed by an orchestra at the film's Berlin premiere. However, most of the score has been lost, and what remains is only a partial adapted suite.<ref name=BrentonFilm/> Thus, throughout the history of ''Nosferatu'' screenings, many composers and musicians have written or improvised their own soundtrack to accompany the film. For example, [[James Bernard (composer)|James Bernard]], composer of the soundtracks of many [[Hammer Film Productions|Hammer]] horror films in the late 1950s and 1960s, wrote a score for a reissue.<ref name=BrentonFilm/><ref>{{Cite journal |first=Randall D. |last=Larson |date=1996 |title=An Interview with James Bernard |journal=Soundtrack Magazine |volume=15 |issue=58 |url=http://www.runmovies.eu/?p=6789 |archive-date=14 January 2015 |access-date=25 March 2020 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20150114010054/http://www.runmovies.eu/?p=6789 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Bernard's score was released in 1997 by Silva Screen Records. A version of Erdmann's original score reconstructed by musicologists and composers Gillian Anderson and James Kessler was released in 1995 by [[Bertelsmann Music Group|BMG Classics]], with multiple missing sequences composed anew, in an attempt to match Erdmann's style. An earlier reconstruction by German composer Berndt Heller has many additions of unrelated classical works.<ref name=BrentonFilm/> In 1998, [[Arrow Films]] released a version on VHS of the film scored by songs from doom metal band [[Type O Negative]], which also featured an introduction with actor [[David Carradine]]. In 2022, the New York Times wrote about Dutch composer [[Jozef van Wissem]]'s new score and record release for ''Nosferatu''. Beginning with a solo played on the lute, his performance incorporates electric guitar and distorted recordings of extinct birds, graduating from subtlety to gothic horror. "My soundtrack goes from silence to noise over the course of 90 minutes," he said, culminating in "dense, slow death metal."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/24/movies/nosferatu-100-robert-eggers-remake.html |title=100 Years of 'Nosferatu,' the Vampire Movie That Won't Die |date=2022-03-24|website=[[The New York Times]]|publisher=}}</ref> A new score for full orchestra and piano was commissioned by the Louisville Orchestra from its former composer-in-residence Sebastian Chang. It premiered, playing live with the film, in October 2023.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sebastianchang.com/nosferatu-new-film-score-world-premiere/|title=Nosferatu – new film score world premiere - Sebastian Chang|date=16 September 2023|website=sebastianchang.com}}</ref>