Patrick Gowers

Patrick Gowers

William Patrick Gowers (born May 5 1936 in London) is an English composer known for his film scores.

Gowers' works include the following music scores: "Comic Act" (1998), "The Hound of the Baskervilles" (1988), "The Sign of Four" (1987), "Whoops Apocalypse" (1986), "Anna Karenina" (1985), "Smiley's People" (1982), "Stevie" (1978), "Children of Rage" (1975), "A Bigger Splash" (1974), "Farlige kys" (1972), "Giv Gud en Chance Om Soendagen" (1970), "The Virgin and the Gypsy" (1970), "Balladen Om Carl-Henning" (1969), "Hamlet" (1969), "Thomas er Fredloes" (1968), "Marat / Sade" (1966).

His concert music includes works written for the guitarist John Williams: Chamber Concerto for Guitar and Rhapsody for Guitar, Electric Guitars and Electric Organ. He has also composed some choral music, including a setting of the text "Veni Creator Spiritus" and the much-performed "Viri Galilaei".

He has done research work on Erik Satie (Eric Satie: his studies, notebooks and critics, Ph. D., Cambridge Univ., 1965).

He is the grandson of British civil servant Sir Ernest Gowers and the father of the mathematician Timothy Gowers, the writer Rebecca Gowers and the violinist Katharine Gowers.

Patrick Gowers composed the music to The Adventures of, The Return of, the Casebook of and the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes starring Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes, David Burke and Edward Hardwicke as Watson (Burke only appeared in The Adventures), Eric Porter as Professor Moriarty and Rosalie Williams as Mrs. Hudson.

The series ran from 1984 to 1994, and the soundtrack was released in 1987.

Tracks:

1 221B Baker Street 0:47

2 Elsie Cubitt 3:56

3 Libera Me 4:13

4 North by Ten and by Ten 2:44

5 Old Sherman's Dog Toby 1:24

6 Sutton's Nightmare 3:35

7 River Chase 5:54

8 The Death of Sherlock Holmes 5:25

9 Irene Adler 4:46

10 Holmes in Europe 1:25

11 John Hector McFarlane and His Mother 2:01

12 Setting Out 2:08

13 Lucretia Venucci and Her Family 3:44

14 Mr Henry Baker's Christmas 2:10

15 The Illustrious Lord Bellinger 2:13

16 On the Trail 1:19

17 Neville St. Clair's Nostalgia 2:14

18 The Bar of Gold, Upper Swandam Lane 4:07

19 Baker Street Reunion 1:48


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