Watch Sir Anthony Hopkins as he hears the waltz he wrote 50 years ago for the first time

Before taking up acting as a career, the Academy Award-winner was a musician. But it was only in 2011 that he heard his composition being played.

The sheer range of emotions of Hopkins’ face is sure to touch a chord in you. His wife Stella Arroyave (seated next to him) was moved to tears. (Source: Youtube)

You may love Sir Anthony Hopkins for a number of things — his role in and as Hannibal? Him as the butler in Remains of the Day? Or, more recently, as Thor’s father Odin. But it is very unlikely that you would love his for his music. In fact, how many of you know that he’s an excellent composer as well?

Before taking up acting as a career, the Academy Award-winner was a musician. Fifty years ago he wrote a waltz but was too afraid to ever hear it play. In a 2012 interview with The Guardian, Hopkins stated, “I’ve been composing music all my life and if I’d been clever enough at school I would like to have gone to music college. As it was I had to settle for being an actor.”

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During 2011-12, many of the actor’s compositions were taken up and played by various conductors. It started in July 2011, when Dutch violinist André Rieu released an album that included a waltz composed by a 19-year-old Hopkins. This was the first time that Hopkins was hearing his composition, “And the Waltz Goes On”, performed by Rieu’s orchestra in Vienna.

Not only is his music moving, but the sheer display of emotions of Hopkins’ face is sure to touch a chord in you as well.

Watch the video here.