Michael Salvatori

American composer

Michael C. Salvatori (born April 18, 1954) is an American composer best known for his collaboration with colleague Martin O'Donnell for the soundtracks to the Halo video game series. Salvatori became acquainted with O'Donnell in college; when O'Donnell was given a job offer to score a colleague's film, Salvatori and O'Donnell formed a partnership and eventually created their own production company, TotalAudio. Salvatori continued to manage TotalAudio and worked on his own music for clients such as Wideload Games (later under Disney).

He co-composed the soundtrack to the 2014 video game Destiny and its expansions, The Taken King (2015) and Rise of Iron (2016). He also composed music for Destiny 2 (2017) as well as its expansions, Forsaken (2018), Shadowkeep (2019), Beyond Light (2020), The Witch Queen (2022), Lightfall (2023), and The Final Shape (2024).

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Works

A Traitor’s Grave
Choose Wisely
Cortana and the Spartan
Crow’s Bridge
Departure
Duty Bound
End of the Line
Escape
Excerpt From the Ecstasy
Finish the Fight
First Challenge
Flood Rising
Forest Heart
Gravemind
Greatest Journey
Guardian
Guilt and Punishment
Halo
Halo Finale
Halo Reborn
Heart of the Stone
Homecoming
Keep What You Steal
Legend
Lost Horizons
Movement
Never Forget
No More Dead Heroes
Out of the Barrier
Pools of Iron
Price Paid
Reborn
Relic of Hope
River of Blood
Roll Call
Sepiks Prime
Seven Gates
Smiths of Muirthemne
Sons of Myrgard
The Barrier
The Collapse
The Collective
The Fallen
The Fallen Lords
The Fallen Lords: Epilogue
The Fallen Lords: Prologue
The Five Champions
The Great Unknown
The Journey Home
The Last Array
The Last Battle
The Tower
The Traveler
The Warmind
The Watcher
Tranquility
Traveler's Promise
Tribute
Wake Me When You Need Me
Watching