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Listed are a total of fifty-four composers and seventy-five scores.

The Roman progressive rock group, Goblin (Maurizio Guarini and Fabio Pignatelli) is considered ONE composer on “Suspiria.”

Three of the composers listed have a backup composer (Goblin with Dario Argento, Trevor Jones with Randy Edelman and Tyler Bates with Tim Williams, giving a total of fifty-seven composers overall).

Forty-two (forty-five, counting the three backups) composers are represented once. Seven are represented twice. Three are represented thrice, and two have five of their scores honored. Of the composers, fifty-four are male, and one is female. This used to be

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