James Horner

                                       Music Composers

 One of the best and most soothing orchestral music was been composed by none other then James Horner. He was known for extracting out emotions from the scenes through his scores, typically following the orchestral scoring patter yet standing out to sound smooth and sweet orchestra. He was a legend who has scored one of the most iconic soundtrack and iconic score of the film Titanic.

The Legend describes composing by comparing it to a painter" He says composing is like painting adding colour to the moving images and bringing out emotions by structuring it on the blank canvas !

Early Life 

James after winning the oscars for Titanic

James Horner was an American composer, conductor, his music had a great influence of Celtic music ( European music) mostly with choral arrangements and electronic stuffs.He started composing for B grade films as his work gained attention he was offered large Hollywood movies, one of his first major score was for the movie The lady in red which was released in the year 1979 though he was not really established in 1982 he was asked to score for Star Trek ll: The wrath of Khan the score was well received and this made him established as a A-list Hollywood composer. Horner continued writing for some really large movies like 48Hrs, Krull (1983), Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984), Commando (1985), Cocoon (1985), Aliens (1986),\Glory and Field of Dreams (1989). Aliens directed by James Cameron brought him his first oscar nomination for best original score category.

Later on he recieved nominations for the films like "Field of dreams, Apollo'13,Braveheart,Beautiful Mind,House of sand and fog,Avatar. Horner was nominated for 8 times in Oscars.

Horner-Cameron 

Though he got the first nomination for Aliens ,his relation with the producers and the director got a bit of sour because of the deadlines,Horner had to score and write the music overnight which was a huge task for any composer. he had to improvise the writing during the recording sessions itself as the first cut and the 2nd cut had major changes which created tension between the composer and the makers of the film. After that Cameron made 2 films with another composer and Horner gave another hit with the film Braveheart (1995) which again made Cameron to work again with Horner. And Horner too wanted to work with him.And so they acme to work again for the film Titanic for which he won two oscars for My heart will go on and original score. They both again collaborated for the most awaited film Avatar which had huge orchestration and some really ambient feel using some electronic sounds, for this again Horner got nomination in Oscar. 

 

Horner died on 22nd June 2015 because of the plane crash.

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