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| Net Worth: 92,000,000$ |
He is considered one of the most influential and well-known film composers of the present, and has been nominated ten times for the Oscar, twelve times for the Golden Globe Award and ten times for the Grammy Award. He received his first Oscar nomination in 1989 for the film Rain Man. In 1995, he was awarded an Oscar for the film music of The Lion King. In 2010 he got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. 2011 followed a star on the boulevard of the stars in Berlin.
About Hans Zimmer:
Zimmer was born in Frankfurt am Main as the son of chemical entrepreneur Hans J. Zimmer. As a child, he learned the piano playing at the Parents' House in Königstein-Falkenstein, where he only had a piano teacher for a short time because he did not want to subject his discipline to the basic rules for a pianist. At the English boarding house Hurtwood House in Dorking, Surrey, he graduated from high school and played in groups such as Krisma and Helden (with the drummer of Ultravox, Warren Cann) on the synthesizer. He did not go through an academic musical education. Hans Zimmer is married and has four children. In 1999 he declared at a press conference on the Holocaust documentary The last days to be Jewish. His mother fled to England in 1939 before the Nazis.
Years in England
At the end of the 1970s, Werbemusik-Jingles was a composer of the composer and worked on the video clip of the Buggles hit video Killed the Radio Star on the modular synthesizer. In London's studio Air Edel he composed advertising and radio jingles. There he met the well-known English film music composer Stanley Myers, whose assistant he became 1980. From him Zimmer learned a lot about composing for an orchestra. Through this collaboration he received first smaller assignments for his own film music compositions. At the end of the 1980s he drew attention to himself through the setting of films like Rain Man.
Hollywood
Room was known in the early 1990s mainly because of its innovative combination of orchestral and synthesizer sounds. With Ridley Scott's Black Rain and Ron Howard's backdraft - men walking through the fire, he created a novel style to sound action movies. Backdraft is a milestone in the history of film music: Zimmer's decision to record the film with a so-called "wall-to-wall score", that is, the bulk of the film with music, created the prototype for many action film music, then in Hollywood Were produced. The stylistics, which are roughly based on a powerful main theme, rhythmic action motifs, and cautious passages for the two main characters (portrayed by Kurt Russell and William Baldwin), can be found in numerous later film music.
Hans Zimmer (December 2010)
Together with his partner Jay Rifkin, he founded Media Ventures in the middle of the 1980s. In 2003 Zimmer took over the business after a legal dispute with Rifkin with his company Remote Control Productions. Remote Control is a kind of talent-forging, in which some other film music composers such as Steve Jablonsky, James Dooley, Heitor Pereira and Geoff Zanelli also work. Some of the most famous former remote control composers are Klaus Badelt, John Powell, Nick Glennie-Smith, Mark Mancina and Harry Gregson-Williams.
Zimmer lives and works in Los Angeles today and is one of the most successful and influential film composers in Hollywood history. After the completion of the work on Illuminati, Zimmer planned to give some concerts, but so far this has only been possible to a limited extent, since he accepted new assignments. As he said in an interview with the website Amazona.de, most of the directors with whom he collaborates are his friends, and therefore it is difficult for him to refuse an order from them.
However, Zimmer 2016 was with an orchestra of 70 musicians on a large tour through Europe. From the film music career rooms various soundtracks were played live in front of the audience, connected with short stories room, among other things. About the death of Heath Ledger in 2008, who died shortly after the shooting of The Dark Knight. The premiere of the live tour took place on 6 April 2016 at the Wembley Arena in London. With a concert in the ancient theater of Orange the tour was finished on 5 June 2016. German speaking places of the tour were Mannheim, Hamburg, Berlin, Oberhausen, Munich, Cologne, Zurich, Graz, Vienna, Geneva and Luxembourg. Johnny Marr accompanied the guests at a few selected concerts in London, Berlin, Manchester, Dublin and Orange on the electric guitar. Room after his concert on April 22nd, 2016, at the König Pilsener Arena in Oberhausen, Germany, attracted great attention when, after the death of Prince, he played the title of Purple Rain.
Engagements
In the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue 2008, Hans Zimmer became an ambassador in Germany. The aim of the European Commission's campaign was to inform people in all 27 EU countries about the benefits of diversity and to inspire them for intercultural exchange.
In response to the attack of Aurora in July 2012, he published the composition "Aurora". The entire proceeds will be donated to the victims and their families.