[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AN04imFDK8]
I wasn't very familiar with Horner's work until looking up some info for this post. He has a rather large body of work actually. He has worked on lots of big films, Apollo 13, An American Tail, Field of Dreams, The Karate Kid, Sneakers, and Aliens just to name a few. His awards include Golden Globes, Grammy Awards and Oscars. His biggest success in music scoring though, is Titanic, which is the best selling orchestral film score of all time. The partnership he has with the film's director, James Cameron, led him to be the composer for the Avatar soundtrack as well.
Just to give you an idea of his accomplishment with the Titanic soundtrack, here are some numbers. The album, while riding on the gianormous success that was the Titanic movie, sold over 30 million copies and topped the charts in over two dozen territories across the globe. Originally, Cameron wanted Enya to do the soundtrack. He even had an early cut of the film that included her music as background score. She declined the offer, and Cameron contacted Horner.
If you listen to the track above, you can hear a lot of simlilarities between this and some of the main themes from Titanic. I noticed them before I realized they had the same composer. This isn't uncommon, though. It's usually pretty simple to pick out a John Williams, Hans Zimmer, or Danny Elfman soundtrack. It's typically the mark of a good composer to know their strengths and have preferences for a particular sound.
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