Hans Zimmer

Hans Florian Zimmer is a German composer and record producer. Since the 1980s, he has composed music for over 150 films. His works include The Lion King, for which he won Academy Award for Best Original Score in 1994, the Pirates of the Caribbean series, The Thin Red Line, Gladiator, The Last Samurai, The Dark Knight Trilogy, Inception, and Interstellar.

Zimmer was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. As a young child, he lived in KnigsteinFalkenstein, where he played the piano at home, but had piano lessons only briefly as he disliked the discipline of formal lessons. He moved to London as a teenager, where he attended Hurtwood House school. In an interview with Mashable in February 2013, he said of his parents My mother was very musical, basically a musician, and my father was an engineer and an inventor. So, 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. In an interview with the German television station ZDF in 2006, he commented My father died when I was just a child, and I escaped somehow into the music and music has been my best friend. In a May 2014 interview, Zimmer revealed that he is Jewish, and recalled how his mother escaped to Engla

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