The Music of Hans Zimmer & Others

In the organizer's words:

No other composer has influenced the film world over the last two decades as much as Oscar, Globe and Emmy award-winner Hans Zimmer with his breathtaking compositions for films such as Top Gun, Dune, James Bond, The Lion King, Pirates of the Caribbean, Gladiator, The Dark Knight, Man of Steel, Inception and Interstellar. Visitors can expect a great musical evening with a film music orchestra, choir, soloists, a light show and selected film excerpts.

Hans Zimmer became famous with his film music for "Rain Man" and has since helped numerous Hollywood megahits to achieve success and dramatic and emotional impact. In 2018, Hans Zimmer received his eleventh Oscar nomination for the score to Christopher Nolan's "Dunkirk".

The audience also learns interesting background stories, such as how Hans Zimmer completely changed the beginning of "Gladiator" with Ridley Scott and smuggled a message against apartheid into the song lyrics for "The Lion King" in the local language and told the big Disney company that it was about butterflies. Hans Zimmer often cited Ennio Morricone as his idol and role model, from whose repertoire excerpts from "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" and "Once Upon a Time in America" will be heard.

Zimmer followed Morricone's example of composing the film music before rather than after filming and shaped the entire work. For example, he changed the opening of Ridley Scott's "Gladiator", whereupon the world-famous director switched to the studio of Hans Zimmer, who is an artist with a social conscience and also composed a song for the victims of the Batman movie theater shooting in Aurora as well as music against climate change - all of which will be heard in the program.

"The Music of Hans Zimmer & Others - A Celebration of Filmmusic" will be performed by an international film orchestra and choir as well as star soloists, who will perform Gladiator and Ennio Morricone's "Ecstasy of Gold" as well as excerpts from The Lion King, Zimmer's most recent box office hit, in an impressive show with light installations, laser projections and selected film excerpts.

"The Music of Hans Zimmer & Others - A Celebration of Filmmusic" is an unforgettable audiovisual experience for all age groups, film enthusiasts, music lovers and families.

Excerpt from the musical program:

• Top Gun
• Dune
• James Bond
• The Lion King
• Pirates of the Caribbean
• Gladiator
• Pearl Harbour
• Interstellar
• The Dark Knight
• Dunkirk
• Inception
• The Earth
• The Da Vinci Code
• Man of Steel
• Spider-Man

Ennio Morricone:

• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
• Once upon a time in America

Composers

Hans Zimmer

Hans Florian Zimmer (born September 12, 1957 in Frankfurt am Main) is a German film composer, arranger and music producer. The Oscar-winning composer works in Hollywood.

He has been nominated eleven times for the Oscar, fourteen 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 honored with an Academy Award for The Lion King. In 2010, a star was unveiled for him on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Zimmer's soundtrack albums have sold more than 19 million copies worldwide.

Ennio Morricone

Ennio Morricone (* November 10, 1928 in Trastevere, Rome, † July 6, 2020) was an Italian composer and conductor. He composed the film music for more than 500 films. His name is primarily associated with the genre of the Italian western, as he wrote the music for 30 such films. However, he also composed film music for other genres.

He achieved particular fame with the film music for the Italo-Western classics "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" (original: Il buono, il gross, il cattivo), the Western epic "Once Upon a Time in the West", Roland Joffé's drama "The Mission" and Giuseppe Tornatore's film "Cinema Paradiso". In 2007, Morricone received an Academy Honorary Award and in 2016 for the music to the film "The Hateful Eight".

Klaus Badelt

Klaus Badelt (born 12 June 1967 in Frankfurt am Main) is a German composer who specializes in television and film music. In 1997, he began an internship at Hans Zimmer's Mediaventures studio in California and worked with him on several films in the following years, including Gladiator, Hannibal and Pirates of the Caribbean. Klaus Badelt has composed for big names from Steven Spielberg to Ridley Scott and created music for films such as X-Men and Astrix & Obelix as well as for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.

His studio is called Wunderhorn Music.