After just reading the title,You probably have never heard the name Hans Zimmer until just now(Don’t worry no one has). Hans Florian Zimmer is a German film score composer and record producer. Since the 80s, he has composed music for more than 150 films. He is famous for his works in movies like “The Lion King,” the “Pirates of the Caribbean,” “The Dark Knight Trilogy,” “Inception,” and “Interstellar.” Hans may not be as famous as John Williams but I feel he needs some recognition.
Hans Zimmer was born September 12th, 1957 in Frankfurt, West Germany. Growing up he learned how to play the piano but sooner later decided to quiet. He says that he hated being told what to do and the discipline you have to have to play the piano. So he hated going
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His mother was a musician and his father was an engineer and an inventor. Hans told “Mashable” in an interview in 2013 I grew up modifying the piano, shall we say, which made my mother gasp in horror, and my father would think it was fantastic when I would attach chainsaws and stuff like that to the piano because he thought it was an evolution in technology."His father died soon after and he decided to play the piano once again to help him try to not be sad and sorrowful. He once stated “Music had been my best friend.” Music has always been away for hans to get away from the world and to …show more content…
He got offered to compose for the movie “Rainman,” by the director Barry Levinson. He did such an amazing job that his score was then nominated for an Academy Award in 1989. Later on he caught Walt Disney Animation Studios attention and was then asked to write a score for the upcoming new animation “The Lion King.” To write this score he wanted it to sound authentic so he traveled to Africa to use African choirs and drums for his score. The score was later nominated for a Golden Globe and a Grammy. Hans ended up winning Best Original Score for an Academy Award,a Golden Globe, and a Grammy for that movie. When we got offered to write the score for Pirates of the Caribbean, He was busy with other projects and declined the offer. It was then later he provided themes for the movie that are now easily memorable and are used throughout the whole
As a boy Johannes worked and studied with his father and learnt lessons from books with his mother, with whom he would play ?four-hands? at the piano, ?just for fun.? There were never any doubts as to his becoming a musician. From early childhood he learn everything his father could teach him, read everything he could lay hands on, practiced with undeviating enthusiasm, and filled reams of paper with exercises and variations. The soul of the child went out in music. He played scales long before he knew the notes, and great was his joy when at the age of six he discovered the possibility of making a melody visible by placing black dots on lines at different intervals, inventing a system of notation of his own before he had been made acquainted with the method which the musical world had been using for some centuries.
To fully understand the relationship between a filmmaker and a composer, it is helpful to take a closer look at the filmmaker’s position towards music in film in general; these can of course differ substantially from one director to another. It seems, one must think, that the complete narrative and emotive potential of film music is not yet fully recognized and appreciated in many film produc...
Loesser’s music reflects American society including relationship practices as well as the heightened sense of nationalism throughout the Depression and the war. Loesser had just entered into Tin Pan Alley music when the depression hit. While the depression played a role economically it did not hinder the cultural advances because people looked to music as a source of entertainment. Due to the popular dances of the time courtship and romantic relationships were a vital part to maintain moral across the nation. Due to the lack of money flow people looked for cheap entertainment like listening to music, radio shows, playing sports, or dancing. These activities often involved partners and when mean were successful it made them more desirable. Throughout
Music is loved by nearly everyone around the world; learning about composers and what they have been through can develop your understanding of music today. World War II certainly helped sculpt the face of music and of the composers of that time. The war affected German, American and French composers and musicians; causing them to write hateful music, or live with fear of writing any music at all.
...lassical composers, I applaud this man for his creativity, style, but most of all for the great contribution he has made to the music and film world.
One of his very famous pieces of work was The Rite of Spring, last year in band class we had to write a paper about that marvelous performance. That was one of his greatest pieces that he ever wrote. That was a piece that he had worked very hard at for a long time.
The music, which was composed and conducted by Thomas Newman also includes orchestrations by Thomas Pasatieri. Featured musical soloists include George Doering, Michael Fisher, Rick Cox, Sid Paige, Steve Kujala, Jon Clarke, George Budd, and Bill Bernstein.
...usic in film has an intensified power to affect the viewer and can cause us to engage with meaning and responses without knowing it. I looked at three films that Hans Zimmer has scored each film being made years apart and based on different story lines. Although the genres of all three films where different each film score was used to achieve the same thing. Each film score was the reason the films had an emotional impact. The motifs in all three films where identifiers for the viewers and allowed them to understand the meaning of the films. Zimmer understands the score needs to pull the viewer towards responses as the image on screen is not always able to do this. Zimmer is an amazing composer and can write film scores for any film and use the score to suggest the central meaning of the film. Zimmer’s versatility can also be seen as he can score films of any genre.
He received a thorough basic education; his father being a good teacher, and son being a bright student. From his father Franz also learned to play the violin, and from his brother he learned the piano. The family, indeed, was a very musical one; the "String Quartet Parties" family were well known in the part of Vienna in which they lived. But soon, young Franz learned all that his family had to teach him. Later, any neighbors who could play any instruments were drawn in and the quartet became a little orchestra.
Director Chris Columbus chose John Williams to compose the music for a promotional reel (John Williams). After Columbus heard the song for the promotional reel, he knew they had to have Williams compose the entire movie (John Williams). Williams created an entire score for the movie and called it “The Harry Potter Suite.” “The Harry Potter Suite” has a song for each important event that happened throughout the film. John Williams adds magic and tells the story of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone through his composed music.
Johann Sebastian Bach was a German organist, composer, and musical scholar of the Baroque period, and is almost universally regarded as one of the greatest composers of all time. His works, noted for their intellectual depth, technical command, and artistic beauty, have provided inspiration to nearly every musician after him, from Mozart to Schoenberg.
Johann Sebastian Bach was born into a family of musicians. It was only natural for him to pick up an instrument and excel in it. His father taught him how to play the violin and harpsichord at a very young age. All of Bach’s uncles were professional musicians, one of them; Johann Christoph Bach introduced him to the organ. Bach hit a turning point in his life when both of his parents died at the age of ten years old. Bach’s older brother Johann Christoph Bach took him in and immediately expanded his knowledge in the world of music. He taught him how to play the clavichord and exposed him to great composers at the time. At the age of fourteen, Bach and his good friend George Erdmann were awarded a choral scholarship to the prestigious musical school St. Michael’s in Luneburg. From then on, Bach began to build his career in the music industry. His first two years at the school he sang in the school’s a cappella choir. Historical evidence has shown that Bach at a young age would visit Johanniskirche and would listen to the works of organ player Jasper Johannsen. This was thought to have been the inspiration to Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor. Studying at the prestigious musical school has help Bach network his way around and become acquaintances’ with some of the best organ players at the time such as Georg Böhm, and Johann Adam Reincken. Through his acquaintance with Böhm and Reincken Bach had access to some of the greatest and finest instruments.
Edward Elgar was born on June 2, 1857. He was born in the town of Broadheath, Worcestershire, England. Edward was the son of an organist and a music dealer. His father’s name was William Henry Elgar. He was raised in Dover and served as an apprentice in London for a music publisher. Edward Elgar’s mom was interested in artistic things and encouraged Edward to pursue Music development. He acquired his strange taste of literature from his love of the countryside. Edward had a friend named W. H. “Billy” Reed who wrote about how Elgar’s surroundings as a child contributed to all of his life’s work and gave it a subtle but evident English vibe. He began writing music as a kid when he was about 10. One of his first compositions was rearranged about 40 years later with only few changes. It was titled “The Wang of Youth”. Until the age of 15, Edward received his education from Littleton. This was an in home school in Worchester. He received extensive musical training from a man named Adolf Pollitzer. These music lessons included sessions for the piano and violin. Edward took various brief visits to London from 1877-1878. He said that it was in the Worchester Cathedral he first truly learned music. He worked extensively on the organ as a kid. He tried to grab ahold of every musical book possible. He later started to get help from a man named Hubert Perry. Edward said that he had the most help from Perry. At one point in his musical journey, Edward began to learn German so that he could hopefully attend the Leipzig Conservatory to further his musical studies. He ended up not going because his father could not afford to send him there. A news magazine called the Musical Times stated that Elgar’s failed attemp...
Johannes Brahms, a striking individual of unmistakable character, is defined by his compositions as meticulous and enlightened. His comprehensive grasp on classical and baroque form, with his familiarity of counterpoint and musical development, allowed him to effortlessly traverse and cultivate upon the musical architecture laid out by the likes of Bach and Beethoven. Born in Hamburg in 1833, he was the son of Johann Jacob Brahms, who travelled from North Germany, in which the family name “Brahms(t)” propagated (Musgrave 4). His father, being a musician by profession, instigated Brahms into his own domain of music. With Brahms’ first instruments being the violin, cello and the natural horn (predecessor of the French horn), it was discovered that the genius possessed absolute pitch and had also developed a system of notation on his own even before formal introductions into music (Musgrave 9).
Undoubtedly, Franz Joseph Haydn is one of the greatest composers of all time. His music, widely acclaimed during his day, has since made him immortal. Very few can stand shoulder to shoulder with this great master.