Bernard Herrmann routinely ignored the specific instructions of film directors regarding music, and he made no exception for his long-term collaborator Alfred Hitchcock.
For the shower scene in Psycho (1960) Hitchcock was adamant that he wanted no music whatsoever, but Herrmann persisted and ultimately won the argument providing the shrill, shrieking music that helped to make the scene so shocking and memorable.
Despite this happy outcome, an almost identical disagreement took place over the scoring of a murder sequence in Torn Curtain (1966), leading to the permanent severing of relations between the two men.
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