Fargo and Mahler - Herman's Malt
Jeff Russo's cue Herman's Malt for the second episode of the second series of Fargo stole a fair chunk of material from the opening bars of Mahler's 2nd Symphony. The first half of the music was used again in episode 4.
Phrase by phrase comparison from 1:06
In an interview with SlashFilm, the series creator Noah Hawley admits to having sent the composer lots of Mahler cues as a reference:
"I shared a lot of Mahler cues, concertos and compositions with the composer because it felt like in a way the Germanic-ness of the Gerhardts"
http://www.slashfilm.com/noah-hawley-...
Then in a Reddit IAMA, composer Jeff Russo was asked repeatedly about his favourite classical composers (Beethoven, Bach, no mention of Mahler) the inspiration behind the music of Fargo Season 2 (the characters and the mood apparently - no mention of lifting wholesale from Mahler).
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As a reddit user recently wrote about it on the /classicalmusic subreddit:
"he should either make his own music inspired by the Mahler or they should just use Mahler, I get that composers for TV/Film have a time limit but you really cant call what they are using an "original score"
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