Jóhann Jóhannsson

Icelandic musician and composer

Jóhann Gunnar Jóhannsson (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈjouːhan ˈjouːhansɔn]; 19 September 1969 – 9 February 2018) was an Icelandic composer who wrote music for a wide array of media including theatre, dance, television, and film. His work is stylised by its blending of traditional orchestration with contemporary electronic elements.

Jóhann released solo albums from 2002 onward. In 2016, he signed with Deutsche Grammophon, through which he released his last solo album, Orphée. Some of his works in film include the original scores for Denis Villeneuve's Prisoners, Sicario, and Arrival, and James Marsh's The Theory of Everything. Jóhannsson was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Score for both The Theory of Everything and Sicario, and won a Golden Globe for Best Original Score for the former. He earned a second Golden Globe nomination for Arrival. He was a music and sound consultant on Mother!, directed by Darren Aronofsky in 2017. His scores for Mary Magdalene and Mandy were released posthumously.

His only directorial work, Last and First Men, premiered at the Manchester International Festival in 2017, where he also performed the score live with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.

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Works

The Long LineThe Long Line
  • 10 Rokkstig
  • 12 Conversations With Thilo Heinzmann: Arc
  • 12 Conversations With Thilo Heinzmann: Danse
  • 12 Conversations With Thilo Heinzmann: Form
  • 12 Conversations With Thilo Heinzmann: Gold
  • 12 Conversations With Thilo Heinzmann: Harm
  • 12 Conversations With Thilo Heinzmann: Lacrimosa
  • 12 Conversations With Thilo Heinzmann: Low
  • 12 Conversations With Thilo Heinzmann: Manifest
  • 12 Conversations With Thilo Heinzmann: Pol
  • 12 Conversations With Thilo Heinzmann: Shell
  • 12 Conversations With Thilo Heinzmann: Stuk
  • 12 Conversations With Thilo Heinzmann: Zurich
  • 12 Conversations with Thilo Heinzmann
  • A Brief History of Time
  • A Deal With Chaos
  • A French School on Værnedamsvej
  • A Game of Croquet
  • A Memorial Garden on Enghavevej
  • A Model of the Universe
  • A Normal Family
  • A Pile of Dust
  • A Prayer to the Dynamo
  • A Prayer to the Dynamo: Part 1
  • A Prayer to the Dynamo: Part 2
  • A Prayer to the Dynamo: Part 3
  • A Prayer to the Dynamo: Part 4
  • A Six‐Lane Highway
  • A Song for Europa
  • A Spacetime Singularity
  • A Sparrow Alighted Upon Our Shoulder
  • Alejandro’s Song
  • An Eiffel Tower by the Lakes
  • Armoured Vehicle
  • Around the Clock News
  • Arrival
  • Automobile
  • BC
  • Bad Results
  • Balcony
  • Bangkok norðursins
  • Bað
  • Breathe
  • By the Roes, and by the Hinds of the Field
  • Cambridge, 1963
  • Camping
  • Cavendish Lab
  • Chalkboard
  • Chimaerica
  • City Building
  • City Building (alternate version)
  • Collapsing Inwards
  • Coma
  • Convoy
  • Copenhagen Dreams
  • Daisy, Daisy
  • De Luce et Umbra
  • Decyphering
  • Desert Music
  • Divine Objects, Pt. 1
  • Divine Objects, Pt. 2
  • Domestic Pressures
  • Drone Mass
  • Drywall
  • Dying Bird
  • Dying City
  • Dís
  • Efripídes og Neðripídel
  • Elevator I
  • Elevator II
  • Eleven Thousand Six Hundred and Sixty‐Nine Died of Natural Causes
  • Emotional Intelligence
  • End Theme
  • Englabörn
  • Englabörn (Viktor Orri Árnason rework)
  • Englabörn (Víkingur Ólafsson piano version)
  • Englabörn – tilbrigði
  • Entering the City
  • Epilogue
  • Escalation
  • Escape
  • Exam
  • Exam Results
  • Explosion
  • Fausto
  • Feather
  • First Attempts
  • First Encounter
  • Forces of Attraction
  • Fordlândia
  • Fordlândia – Aerial View
  • Good Morning, Midnight
  • Good Night, Day
  • Gúmmískór
  • Hammers and Nails
  • He Hit Her on the Head With “The Wind in the Willows”
  • He Says It’s the Future
  • Heptapod B
  • Here, They Used to Build Ships
  • Hótel Borg
  • Innocence (From „free the Mind” Soundtrack)
  • Intro
  • Jarðaför
  • Já, hemmi minn
  • Jói & Karen (Ryuichi Sakamoto rework)
  • Krókódíll
  • Lab
  • Last and First Men
  • London, 1988
  • Love After Love
  • Meditation (From „free the Mind” Soundtrack)
  • Melancholia
  • Melodia (II)
  • Melodia (III)
  • Melodia (IV)
  • Neurons
  • Night Montage
  • Nightmare II
  • Odi et Amo (Jóhannson/Donadello rework)
  • Odi et Amo (Theatre of Voices version)
  • Odi et Amo – bis
  • Part 2: IBM 1403 Printer
  • Part 3: IBM 1402 Card Read-Punch
  • Part 4: IBM 729 II Magnetic Tape Unit
  • Playing With Ball
  • Pods
  • Principle of Least Time
  • Properties of Explosive Materials
  • Rainwater
  • Rowing (alternative version)
  • Ruslpóstur
  • Sapir‐Whorf
  • Separation
  • Siren Song
  • Sparkles
  • Sumavéi
  • Sun
  • Sálfræðingur
  • Sálfræðingur deyr (Hildur Guðnadóttir rework)
  • Ónefnt
  • “Ef ég hefði aldrei…”
  • “Ég heyrði allt án þess að hlusta”
  • “Ég heyrði allt án þess að hlusta” (A Winged Victory for the Sullen rework)
  • “Ég sleppi þér aldrei”
  • “Ég átti gráa æsku”
  • …eins og venjulegt fólk
  • …eins og venjulegt fólk (Paul Corley rework)