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Sven Libaek
12+ albums
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about
Sven Libaek was born in Oslo, Norway on September 20, 1938, and trained early as both a musician and an actor. He first achieved international recognition with his role in the Louis deRochemont film Windjammer where he was able to combine his love for music and acting with his appearance as a soloist with Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops. Libaek first came to Australia in 1960 as a member of the band, The Windjammers, which toured in both the USA and Australia to promote the film. Shortly after the group broke up, Libaek and his wife returned to Australia to live. Libaek has scored many films & TV series, including Nature Walkabout, Boney, Inner Space, Big Country, The World Around Us, Joe Wilson, and The Settlement, as well as dozens of documentaries and industrial films. He worked with Maurice Jarre as musical coordinator and orchestrator for Peter Weir's film The Year of Living Dangerously and also hosted his own TV show on ABC called All about Music. The 2004 Wes Anderson film, Life Aquatic, featured five of Libaek's compositions as part of its score. Libaek lived and worked in Los Angeles from 1977 to 1994 where he orchestrated more than 300 popular songs for US radio stations and artists including Lionel Ritchie and Neil Diamond, and was engaged by Hanna-Barbera in Hollywood to score the music to ten two-hour animated TV movie specials. During his career, Libaek has had more than 30 record albums released. He has composed serious concert works for instruments inclu
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![The Set (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [Remastered]](https://lastfm.freetls.fastly.net/i/u/174s/d9ffbb9b5e96b3a5bbee244a2954412e.png)
The Set (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [Remastered]
![Nature Walkabout (Original Television Soundtrack) [Remastered]](https://lastfm.freetls.fastly.net/i/u/174s/b3be8ea421814e9189196b0cad434427.png)
Nature Walkabout (Original Television Soundtrack) [Remastered]
Inner Space: The Lost Film Music of Sven Libaek
![To Ride a White Horse (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [Remastered]](https://lastfm.freetls.fastly.net/i/u/174s/8bfab320fdf546bdb1998650661c0e99.png)
To Ride a White Horse (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [Remastered]
Inner Space (Soundtrack to the Original TV Documentary)
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
The Music of Sven Libaek (Themes from 1960's Cinesound Film Soundtracks)
Barry 7`s Connectors
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The Life Aquatic with Steve Zi
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The Life Aquatic
Barry 7's Connectors - 21 Rare Library Tracks
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Nickel Queen (Original Motion Pictuire Soundtrack)