 The music heard during the opening credits, an excerpt from Act II of Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake", was re-used in 1932 for another Universal horror film, "The Mummy".During the theatre scene where Dracula meets Dr. Seward, Harker, Mina, and Lucy, the end of the overture to Wagner's "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg" can also be heard as well as the dark opening of Schubert's "Unfinished Symphony" in B minor.In 1998, composer Philip Glass was commissioned to compose a musical score for the classic film.