The Queen's Gambit: Music from the Netflix Limited Series is the soundtrack album to the period drama miniseries The Queen's Gambit, based on the 1983 novel of the same name by Walter Tevis. The original score composed by Carlos Rafael Rivera, known for his previous collaborations with the showrunner Scott Frank in A Walk Among the Tombstones (2014), and the miniseries Godless (2017). Following production on the latter, Frank pitched the one-liner from the source material for its television adaptation, in April 2018 and agreed to work on the musical score, with scoring began in August 2018. The series consisted of orchestral music, to focus on the "instrumental depth and color" for each episodes, progressing on Beth Harmon's life.
The score album was released on October 23, 2020 through Maisie Music Publishing label, coinciding with the release on Netflix. In addition to the 38-track score, an original song entitled "I Can't Remember Love" was composed for the series, performed by Anna Hauss and written by Robert Wienröder and William Horberg, the series' executive producer. The track was released as a single on November 11, 2020, and the music video was released later in August 2021. While the soundtrack was not released in physical formats, Mondo released a two-disc vinyl set, consisting two editions of the package, unveiled on October 22, 2021.The score was positively received with praise towards Rivera's composition. He would later won the Outstanding Music Composition for a Limited or Anthology Series, Movie, or Special at the 73rd Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards, in addition to two other nominations at the same ceremony. At the 64th Annual Grammy Awards, Rivera's score shared the Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media award with Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross and Jon Batiste's score for Soul.
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