Albert Nobbs (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the score album to the 2011 film Albert Nobbs directed by Rodrigo García, starring Glenn Close, Mia Wasikowska and Aaron Johnson.
The album, which released by Varèse Sarabande on 13 December 2011, featured score composed by Irish composer, arranger and conductor Brian Byrne, and an original song "Lay Your Head Down" written by Close and performed by Sinéad O'Connor.
Byrne won the Best Original Score category at the 9th Irish Film & Television Awards.
Before writing the cues, he penned a waltz for dance scene at the hotel where Nobbs work.
After completing 80% of the film's music, he needed a tune for the end credits, which resulted him writing a song with makeshift lyrics cobbled from the lines in the screenplay and played it to Close and Garcia who felt that the lyrics were "terrible".