James Horner
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James Roy Horner (August 14, 1953 – June 22, 2015) was an American film composer and conductor. He worked on more than 160 film and television productions between 1978 and 2015. He was known for the integration of choral and electronic elements alongside traditional orchestrations, and for his use of motifs associated with Celtic music.
Horner won two Academy Awards for his musical composition to James Cameron's Titanic (1997), which became the best-selling orchestral film soundtrack of all time. He also wrote the score for the highest-grossing film of all time, Cameron's Avatar (2009). Horner's other Oscar-nominated scores were for Aliens (1986), An American Tail (1986), Field of Dreams (1989), Apollo 13 (1995), Braveheart (1995), A Beautiful Mind (2001), and House of Sand and Fog (2003). Horner's other notable scores include Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982), Willow (1988), The Land Before Time (1988), Glory (1989), The Rocketeer (1991), Legends of the Fall (1994), Jumanji (1995), Casper (1995), Balto (1995), The Mask of Zorro (1998), Deep Impact (1998), The Perfect Storm (2000), How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), Troy (2004), The New World (2005), The Legend of Zorro (2005), Apocalypto (2006), The Karate Kid (2010), and The Amazing Spider-Man (2012).
Horner collaborated on multiple projects with directors including James Cameron, Don Bluth, Ron Howard, Joe Johnston, Edward Zwick, Walter Hill, Mel Gibson, Vadim Perelman, Jean-Jacques Annaud, Nicholas Meyer, Wolfgang Petersen, Martin Campbell, Phil Nibbelink and Simon Wells; producers including Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, David Kirschner, Brian Grazer, Jon Landau, and Lawrence Gordon; and songwriters including Will Jennings, Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil. Adding to his two Academy Awards win, Horner also won six Grammy Awards, two Golden Globes, and was nominated for three BAFTA Awards.
Horner, who was an avid pilot, was killed in a single-fatality crash while flying his Short Tucano turboprop aircraft. He was 61 years old. The scores for his final three films, Southpaw (2015), The 33 (2015) and The Magnificent Seven (2016), were all completed and released posthumously.
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- Debussy: Préludes, Livre II, CD 131, L. 123: No. 2, Feuilles mortes - Autumn Sonatas - James Horner
- Scarlatti: Keyboard Sonata in C Major, Kk. 159 "The Hunt" - Autumn Sonatas - James Horner
- Massenet: Année passée, Livre II "Jours d'automne": I. Feuilles jaunies. Assez lent - Autumn Sonatas - James Horner
- Vivaldi: The Four Seasons, Violin Concerto in F Major, Op. 8 No. 3, RV 293 "Autumn": I. Allegro - Autumn Sonatas - James Horner
- Lully: Phaëton, LWV 61, Act 4: "C'est par vous, ô Soleil, que le ciel s'illumine" (L'Automne) - Autumn Sonatas - James Horner
- Liszt: 6 Études d'exécution transcendante d'après Paganini, S. 140: No. 5, La chasse - Autumn Sonatas - James Horner
- Delibes: Sylvia, Act 1: No. 3, Fanfare. Les chasseresses - Autumn Sonatas - James Horner
- Janáček: On an Overgrown Path, Book I: No. 2, A Blown-Away Leaf - Autumn Sonatas - James Horner
- Couperin, F: Premier livre de pièces de clavecin, Cinquième ordre: XII. Les vendangeuses - Autumn Sonatas - James Horner
- Gershwin: A Foggy Day - Autumn Sonatas - James Horner
- Weber: Der Freischütz, Op. 77, J. 277, Act 3: Huntsmen's Chorus. "Was gleicht wohl auf Erden dem Jägervergnügen?" (Chor) - Autumn Sonatas - James Horner
- Prokofiev: Cinderella, Op. 87, Act 1: No. 15, Autumn Fairy - Autumn Sonatas - James Horner
- Autumn Leaves - Autumn Sonatas - James Horner
- Beecham & Handel: Love in Bath: IV. Hunting Scene - Autumn Sonatas - James Horner
- Ives: September - Autumn Sonatas - James Horner
- Satie: 3 Morceaux en forme de poire: I. Manière de commencement. Allez modérément - Autumn Sonatas - James Horner
- Mussorgsky: Gathering Mushrooms - Autumn Sonatas - James Horner
- The Christian Harmony: No. 8, Harvest Hymn - Autumn Sonatas - James Horner
- Purcell: The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act 4: Song. "See, See My Many Colour'd Fields" - Autumn Sonatas - James Horner
- MacDowell: New England Idyls, Op. 62: No. 10, The Joy of Autumn - Autumn Sonatas - James Horner
- Légendes d'automne - Autumn Sonatas - James Horner
- Glazunov: The Seasons, Op. 67, Pt. 4 "Autumn": No. 15, Petit adagio - Autumn Sonatas - James Horner
- Rameau: Achante et Céphise, Act 2: Entrée des chasseurs et des chasseresses - Autumn Sonatas - James Horner
- Vaughan Williams: 10 Blake Songs: No. 7, Ah! Sun-flower - Autumn Sonatas - James Horner
- Piazzolla: Estaciones porteñas: II. Otoño porteño (Arr. Assad for Guitar) - Autumn Sonatas - James Horner
- Dvořák: 4 Moravian Duets, Op. 38, B. 69: No. 2, Der Apfel - Autumn Sonatas - James Horner
- Tchaikovsky: The Seasons, Op. 37a: No. 10, October. Autumn Song - Autumn Sonatas - James Horner
- Tormis: Swing Songs: No. 6, The Apple Tree - Autumn Sonatas - James Horner
- Lortzing: Undine, Act 4: "Im Wein ist Wahrheit nur allein" (Hans, Veit) - Autumn Sonatas - James Horner
- Strauss, R: 4 Letzte Lieder: No. 2, September - Autumn Sonatas - James Horner
- Benatzky: Im weißen Rössl, Act 2: "Äpfel! Birnen!" (Josepha, Leopold, Chor) - Autumn Sonatas - James Horner
- Bach, JS: Was mir behagt, BWV 208 "Jagdkantate": No. 12, Duett. "Entzücket uns beide ihr Strahlen der Freude" - Autumn Sonatas - James Horner
- Paganini: 24 Caprices, Op. 1: No. 9 in E Major "The Hunt" - Autumn Sonatas - James Horner
- Lehár: Das Land des Lächelns, Act 3: Duett. "Zig, zig, zig! Wenn die Chrysanthemen blühen" (Mi, Gustl) - Autumn Sonatas - James Horner
- Fauré: 3 Mélodies, Op. 5: No. 1, Chant d'automne - Autumn Sonatas - James Horner
- Glass: Violin Concerto No. 2 "The American Four Seasons": Movement I - Autumn Sonatas - James Horner
- Ligeti: Études pour piano, Livre I: No. 7, Automne à Varsovie - Autumn Sonatas - James Horner
- Hill: Voices of Autumn - Autumn Sonatas - James Horner
- Mozart: String Quartet No. 17 in B-Flat Major, Op. 10 No. 3, K. 458 "Hunt": I. Allegro vivace assai - Autumn Sonatas - James Horner
- Haydn: The Seasons, Hob. XXI:3, Autumn: No. 23, Terzett und Chor. "So lohnet die Natur den Fleiss" (Simon, Hanne, Lukas, Chorus) - Autumn Sonatas - James Horner
- Schumann: 11 Jungendlieder: No. 8, Im Herbste - Autumn Sonatas - James Horner
- Tcherepnin: 6 Romances, Op. 7: No. 1, Autumn Song - Autumn Sonatas - James Horner
- Roussel: 4 Poèmes, Op. 8: No. 3, Nuit d'automne - Autumn Sonatas - James Horner
- Pierné: Paysages franciscains, Op. 43: II. Les olivaies de la plaine d'Assise. Crépuscule d'automne - Autumn Sonatas - James Horner
- Chopin: 17 Songs, Op. 74: No. 17, Śpiew z mogiłky - Autumn Sonatas - James Horner
- Bartók: En plein air, Sz. 81: V. La chasse - Autumn Sonatas - James Horner
- Boismortier: Cantates françoises, Op. 5 "Les quatre saisons", No. 3, L'automne: Air. "C’est en fait, par Bacchus" - Autumn Sonatas - James Horner
- Berlioz: Le chasseur danois, H 104b - Autumn Sonatas - James Horner
- Charpentier: Dispute de bergers, H. 484 "Il faut rire et chanter": II. Brouillards, glaçons, neige, frimas - Autumn Sonatas - James Horner
- Honegger: 6 Poèmes d'Apollinaire: No. 3, Automne - Autumn Sonatas - James Horner
- Puccini: Crisantemi - Autumn Sonatas - James Horner
- Shostakovich: Symphony No. 2 in B Major, Op. 14 "To October": IV. To October. "My shli, my prosili raboty i khleba" - Autumn Sonatas - James Horner
- Hahn: 7 Chansons grises: No. 1, Chanson d'automne - Autumn Sonatas - James Horner
- Schubert: Herbst, D. 945 - Autumn Sonatas - James Horner
- Duke: Thumbs Up: Autumn in New York - Autumn Sonatas - James Horner
- Weill: Knickerbocker Holiday, Act 1: September Song. "When I Was a Young Man Courting the Girls" (Pieter Stuyvesant) - Autumn Sonatas - James Horner
- Stolz: Herbstmanöver: "Auf der Heide bluh'n die letzten Rosen" - Autumn Sonatas - James Horner
- Bliss: Suite from Adam Zero: VII. Approach to Autumn - Autumn Sonatas - James Horner
- Tippett: Ritual Dances from "The Midsummer Marriage": First Dance. The Earth in Autumn, The Hound Chases the Hare - Transformation - Preparation for the Second Dance - Autumn Sonatas - James Horner
- Strauss II, J: Wein, Weib und Gesang, Op. 333 (Live) - Autumn Sonatas - James Horner
- Verdi: I vespri siciliani, Act 3, Divertimento "Le stagioni": Autunno - Autumn Sonatas - James Horner
- Brahms: Clarinet Quintet in B Minor, Op. 115: I. Allegro - Autumn Sonatas - James Horner
- Bizet: Roma, WD 37: I. Une chasse dans la forêt d'Ostie. Andante tranquillo - Andante - Autumn Sonatas - James Horner
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