About Marc Wilkinson
Marc Wilkinson was an Australian-British composer and conductor best known for his film scores, including Blood on Satan's Claw, and incidental music for the theatre, most notably for Peter Shaffer's The Royal Hunt of the Sun. His compositional approach has combined traditional techniques with elements of the avant-garde. After residing for most of his life in the United Kingdom, he retired from composition and lived in France. Having directed several TV dramas, Haggard was about to direct his first feature film and invited Wilkinson to score it. In England, he became one of the first independent composers to make use of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop after it opened in 1958.
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