‘Star Wars’ composer John Williams donates his music to Juilliard

John Williams wants to repay the school that set him on the path to a career as one of the movies’ premier composers.

The Floral Park native who has composed more than 100 scores, including those for the “Star Wars” and “Harry Potter” movies, announced on Tuesday that he is bequeathing his complete library of concert music and film scores as well as his sketchbooks to his alma mater, The Juilliard School. Williams, who studied piano at the famed Manhattan school for the arts, shared the news at an alumni event held in Los Angeles, where he also received the President’s Medal from the school.

“Since my earliest days as a fledgling piano student, I have looked up to The Juilliard School as the mecca for the study of music in our country and beyond,” Williams, 86, said at the event. “It’s therefore a privilege for me to donate my sketches, papers, and scores to Juilliard, to be made available to those students particularly interested in the intimate processes of film scoring.”

Williams, who has 51 Oscar nominations — second only to Walt Disney with 59 — was up this year for his score to “Star Wars: The Last Jedi.” Though he lost Sunday night, he has won on five previous occasions for scoring “Fiddler on the Roof,” “Jaws,” “Star Wars,” “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial” and “Schindler’s List.”