Chennai: The Taste of Cinema web site has positioned Ilayaraja no. 9 in the global ranking of top 25 Film Composers ever.
Following is the note on Ilayaraja published in the global ranking announcement:
“Ilaiyaraaja is an Indian film composer who works in the Indian film Industry. His body of work has spanned across Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Hindi and English language films.
Regarded as one of the finest music composers in India, Ilaiyaraaja is also an instrumentalist, conductor, singer, and a songwriter. To date, he has composed over 4500 songs and provided film scores for more than 950 Indian films in various languages, particularly being acclaimed for his background scoring. His songs and background score played a very crucial role in the success of many films.
” Following is the global ranking of musicians in ‘The 25 Greatest Film Composers in Cinema History’:
No Musician Name Country
1 Ennio Morricone ITALY
2 Max Steiner USA
3 John Williams USA
4 Bernard Herrmann USA
5 Nino Rota ITALY
6 Tōru Takemitsu JAPAN
7 Michel Legrand FRANCE
8 Alan Menken USA
9 Ilayaraja INDIA
10 Jerry Goldsmith USA
11 Maurice Jarre FRANCE
12 John Barry USA
13 Hans Zimmer GERMANY
14 Joe Hisaishi JAPAN
15 James Horner USA
16 Georges Delerue USA
17 Dimitri Tiomkin UK
18 Elmer Bernstein USA
19 Howard Shore CANADA
20 Thomas Newman USA
21 Danny Elfman USA
22 Philip Glass USA
23 James Newton-Howard USA
24 Vangelis GREECE
25 Alan Silvestri USA
