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Klaus Badelt

COMPOSER

1967 - Today

Klaus Badelt

Klaus Badelt (born 12 June 1967) is a German composer, producer, and arranger of film scores. He is known for his collaborations with Hans Zimmer, helping to write scores for dozens of critically acclaimed films including The Thin Red Line, The Prince of Egypt, and Gladiator. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Klaus Badelt has received more than 827,052 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia. Klaus Badelt is the 1,096th most popular composer (down from 1,089th in 2019), the 4,330th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,974th in 2019) and the 164th most popular German Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Klaus Badelt ranks 1,096 out of 1,451. Before him are Shivkumar Sharma, Emil Hartmann, František Škroup, Karl Klindworth,

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Klaus "Bowsprit" Badelt

Klaus Badelt (born June 12, 1967, Frankfurt, Germany) is a soundtrack composer. He composed the soundtrack for Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl along with Hans Zimmer.

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Pirates of the Caribbean[]

Composer Alan Silvestri was originally hired to write the score for Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. However, due to creative differences between him and Jerry Bruckheimer, Silvestri left and Gore Verbinski asked Hans Zimmer to step in. However, Zimmer declined to do some of the composing as he was scoring The Last Samurai, where he had promised not to take any other assignments. As a result, he referred Verbinski to Klaus Badelt. Zimmer later ended up collaborating along with Badelt to write most of the score's primary themes, many of which, as Zimmer wanted, are credited to Badelt[1].

However, after the success of The Curse of the Black Pearl, Klaus Badelt didn't return to compose the sequels Dead Man's Chest and At World's End[2]. When asked if he could

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Klaus
Badelt

Klaus Badelt began his career in Germany with scoring multiple movies and commercials. In 1998, Badelt moved to Los Angeles and segued into composing for blockbuster, American-made films. Since then, Badelt has worked with some of the greatest filmmakers of our time, received international awards and distinction, scored more than 40 major motion pictures, and set the tone for both critically acclaimed films and top-grossing blockbusters.
At the beginning of his Hollywood career, Badelt collaborated with Hans Zimmer as well as other Media Ventures composers, such as Harry Gregson-Williams and John Powell, for various film projects.

Badelt contributed music to the Academy Award winning soundtrack for The Thin Red Line and
The Prince of Egypt and worked together with famous directors, such as Ridley Scott, Tony Scott, Terrence Mallick, John Woo, Kathryn Bigelow, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Tom Cruise, Sean Penn, Gore Verbinski and Steven Spielberg. Furthermore, Badelt was co-producer of the Hollywood box office hit Gladiator by director Ridley Scott and also wrote parts of the

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