Hans Florian Zimmer is the greatest, German film score composer, but also a music producer known today. Zimmer was known and recognized as one of Hollywood’s most innovative musical talents. Hans born around September 12<sup>th</sup> of 1957 in the city of Frankfurt am Main, inside Germany. As an only child Hans mother was basically a musician, she was very musical and he’s father an engineer but also an inventor, which is how he grow up to modify the piano. At the age of three is when Zimmer being playing piano, he would play the piano at home. He would have private piano lessons but really disliked any discipline that was formal lessons, both parents were fascinated and gasp in horror to Hans. His family had moved all over Europe and at the age of 14 his family finally settled in London. Has he moved to London this was where he had…show more content… Levinson who was very impressed with Zimmer’s work had hired him to score the Rain Man, his technique used included synthesizers mixed with steel drums. Trying to explain why he use the technique he put into the film was because the movie played as if you were on the road which usually jangly guitars even a bunch of strings. Zimmer then traveled to Africa influenced by their instruments, so that he could use African drums and choirs in a recording of a score for the film The Power of One. Has he grow into a composer/music producer learning new thing way but also traveling to find sounds to fit the films he scored. Then in about 2000s Zimmer had already started to composed scores on to Hollywood blockbuster films from working on DreamWorks Animation, Walt Disney Animation Studios, and others. During the Sherlock Holmes film in 2009, they reported that Zimmer would use an out-of-tune piano which was about 200 dollars so that he could use throughout the scoring process because of the quirkiness. Zimmer had founded his company which he had worked with other composers through Remote Control Productions which is known as Media
