A composer who made your life beautiful.

Tie between Hans Zimmer and John Williams.

Hans introduced me into the world of film music with his masterpiece score to The Lion King (my beloved score and most wanted holy grail), and impressed me with many more great scores. John Williams has totally bowled me over with his so many emotionally powerful scores, I just can't choose just one. I adore them both!

What? are you sure about this? Even i, too, admire Aliens.

I'm not really sure what that means, to make "my life beautiful". I don't think any composer has really been instrumental in that. Perhaps you mean which composers became our first favourite? Or simply which composer "hooked you" on to film music in the first place? Or perhaps you just mean what our favourite composers are?

My top 3 film composer favourites continue to be John Williams, Danny Elfman and Elliot Goldenthal.

Evanthia Reboutsika

What?
I can perfectly understand how a bottle or three of Reboutsika changes one's outlook on life.

No, no i am not asking your favorite composers. I am asking which composer's works inspires you lot in day to day life. For e.g, whenever i go for work or go out with my friends or just go for a walk, i always have feeling some music would be playing in my mind, which gives me strength and motivation, for e.g i always think of "Fawkes the phoenix" track from The Chamber of Secrets, which gives pleasure, motivation etc. Music is kind of a medicine, which may cure your mental depressions or relaxation to your mind and body. I look the film score in that way. So, whenever i listen to John Williams, i just enthralled and mesmerised by his wonderful works. Now, are you able to understand my question?

To me, these are really one and the same. These composers also "inspire" me in my everyday life; that is in fact why they are my favourites in the first place. As far as Williams is concerned, I am particularly in love with his "religious" sound, as I like to call it - stuff like "Meeting with Mao" from NIXON or "Restoration" from JANE EYRE or "Face of Pan" from HOOK or "Angela's Prayer" from ANGELA'S ASHES and so on and so forth.

John Barry

Don't tell me you don't know about the infamous ripping off of classical composers. I was more than a little shocked to learn this sad truth. But it still remains one of my favorite Horners. I'll never degrade that one.

Any composer whose work touches me emotionally, has made my life better. Such composers:


Jerry Goldsmith
John Williams on occassion
Christophe Beck (his "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" work)
Danny Elfman on occassion
James Horner
Elmer Bernstein
Basil Poledouris
Georges Delerue
Mark Snow

I think I could say something similar, but I discovered Jerry very late.

My greatest musical epiphany came during one of my childhood summers visiting relatives on an island off the west coast of Norway. In between fishing trips and ball games with my cousins I would explore my uncle's record collection and look for something exciting to spin in my brand new discman. I experimented with everything from hip-hop to country and heaven knows what else, till I came across the Forest Gump soundtrack and that special track by Alan Silvestri that concludes the album. Now that was a magic moment!