THEY SHOOT, HE SCORES
After hearing Hans Zimmer’s score for Denis Villeneuve’s Dune, I asked if we could talk about his influences. The music in Dune is a rich choral soundscape which departs from his iconic French-horn and blasts of electric guitar. Where did those sounds come from? “You mean the people I stole from? All of them?!” He’s joking, but his response touches on a strange criticism targeted at film composers. They’re accused of plagiarising classical music when it’s more accurate to cite inspiration. I decided to delve deeper into his classical taste.
Zimmer’s compositions are steeped in the music he grew up with in Frankfurt in the 1960s. He only had two weeks of piano lessons and was expelled from eight schools. His musical education came from hearing German composers like Bach and Beethoven, and today to .
