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Q uo Vadis was composer Miklós Rózsa’s first biblical epic film. In 1951, the man whose name would come to be so inextricably associated with togas, swords, crosses and such, had never scored any film set more than 200 years in the past (not counting the Arabian Nights fantasy The Thief of Bagdad ).
Quo Vadis (1951) initiated the composer's historical period. For this massive production, Hollywood's most expensive film to that date, Rózsa went back to ancient Greek sources in an effort to simulate the music of antiquity.
The main themes of the score of Quo Vadis are the following: The opening prelude is a choral setting of the words “Quo Vadis Domine?” and its translation “Lord Wither Goes Thou?” The melodic line of this theme was modeled on the Gregorian “Libera me Domine” and Kyrie.
Abstract. From the start, MGM was determined to make the spectacular religious epic Quo Vadis as historically accurate as possible. The music was also to be as accurate as the rest of the film, and Miklós Rózsa’s score for Quo Vadis was an important early example of (and influence on) the “epic film score sound.”.
