Veigar Margeirsson (born 1972) is a

film score A film score is original music written specifically to accompany a film. The score comprises a number of orchestral, instrumental, or choral pieces called cues, which are timed to begin and end at specific points during the film in order to ...

composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and Defi ...

from

Iceland Iceland ( is, Ísland; ) is a Nordic island country in the North Atlantic Ocean and in the Arctic Ocean. Iceland is the most sparsely populated country in Europe. Iceland's capital and largest city is Reykjavík, which (along with its s ...

. He composed the original score for

Eric Schaeffer Eric Schaeffer (born January 22, 1962) is an American actor, writer, and director. Early life and education Schaeffer was born in New York City, New York, and later graduated with a degree in drama and dance from Bard College. After graduat ...

's 2004 film ''

Mind the Gap "Mind the gap" () or sometimes "watch the gap" is an audible or visual warning phrase issued to rail passengers to take caution while crossing the horizontal, and in some cases vertical, spatial gap between the train door and the station ...

''. He was also one of the composers who

arranged In music, an arrangement is a musical adaptation of an existing composition. Differences from the original composition may include reharmonization, melodic paraphrasing, orchestration, or formal development. Arranging differs from orchestra ...

and

orchestrated Orchestration is the study or practice of writing music for an orchestra (or, more loosely, for any musical ensemble, such as a concert band) or of adapting music composed for another medium for an orchestra. Also called "instrumentation", orch ...

Clint Mansell Clinton Darryl Mansell (; born 7 January 1963) is an English musician, singer, and composer, born in Coventry. He served as the lead singer and multi-instrumentalist of alt-rock band Pop Will Eat Itself before embarking on a career as a film s ...

's Lux Aeterna from ''

Requiem for a Dream ''Requiem for a Dream'' is a 2000 American psychological drama film directed by Darren Aronofsky and starring Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, Christopher McDonald and Marlon Wayans. It is based on the 1978 novel of the same name ...

'' for full orchestra and choir for '' The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers'' trailer. The piece, named "Requiem for a Tower", was made exclusively for the trailer and was featured in neither ''Requiem for a Dream'' nor ''The Lord of the Rings'' film trilogy.

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Veigar Margeirsson Veigar Margeirsson (born 1972) is a film score composer from Iceland. He composed the original score for Eric Schaeffer's 2004 film ''Mind the Gap''. He was also one of the composers who arranged and orchestrated Clint Mansell's Lux Aeterna fr ...

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