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Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens

Oct 29, 2026

· Appalachian Virtual Ensemble, Music, The Resonant Dark

An original score for the 1922 silent film

Charcoal portrait of Count Orlok with wide eyes, pointed ears, and exposed fangs. Red lettering reads Appalachian Virtual Ensemble and Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens. — Original charcoal cover illustration and cover design by Tristan Robert Lange.

Composer: Tristan Robert Lange
Music project: Appalachian Virtual Ensemble
Composed: 2011–2015
Originally released: 2022, for the film’s centennial

Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens is an early original score by Tristan Robert Lange under Appalachian Virtual Ensemble, composed to accompany the 1922 silent film. Written between 2011 and 2015, the score was released in 2022 to mark the film’s centennial.

This presentation brings the complete film together with Lange’s original music and title-card artwork. The album cover features their charcoal portrait of Count Orlok.

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Watch the complete film below with the original score by Tristan Robert Lange.

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About the Recording

This archival release preserves the original recordings, including the imperfections of their mix, and documents an earlier period in Lange’s work as a composer.

Credits

Music composed, arranged, and produced by Tristan Robert Lange.
Performed through Appalachian Virtual Ensemble.
Original charcoal cover illustration, cover design, and title-card artwork by Tristan Robert Lange.

Tristan Robert Lange’s handwritten signature: Tittu.

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Tristan Robert Lange

Hi, I’m Tristan Robert Lange — a poet who writes at the crossroads of existentialism, emotional depth, societal critique, and the gothic. My work often journeys into the human psyche, weaving dark and atmospheric imagery with profound emotional insight. I draw inspiration from literary voices such as Edgar Allan Poe, Jim Morrison, Charles Baudelaire, Sylvia Plath, Mary Shelley and Bram Stoker, among others. Their influence fuels my pursuit of vivid imagery and unflinching exploration of the macabre, the mysterious, and the sacred-in-subtext. My poetry is both confessional and visionary, haunted and haloed, carrying the weight of suffering but always straining toward transcendence.

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