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  • Real name : James Roy Horner
  • Place of birth : Los Angeles
  • Date of birth : 14/08/1953

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James Horner (1953)

James Roy Horner

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James Roy Horner is an American composer, orchestrator and conductor of orchestral and film music. He is noted for the integration of choral and electronic elements in many of his film scores, and for frequent use of Celtic musical elements. His score to the 1997 film Titanic remains the best selling orchestral film soundtrack of all time.

In addition, Horner has scored over 100 films, frequently collaborating with acclaimed directors such as Mel Gibson, James Cameron and Ron Howard. Other scores he worked on include those of Braveheart, Willow,
Apollo 13, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Legends of the Fall, Aliens, Glory, The Mask of Zorro, Field of Dreams, Enemy at the Gates, The Missing, Sneakers, Casper, Troy, An American Tail, The Land Before Time, The Rocketeer, A Beautiful Mind, Mighty Joe Young, The Perfect Storm, Avatar, and most recently, The Karate Kid.

His body of work is notable for including the scores to the two highest-grossing films of all time; Titanic and Avatar, both of which were directed by James Cameron.

Horner is a two-time Academy Award-winner, and has received a total of 10 Oscar nominations. He has won numerous other awards, including the Golden Globe Award and the Grammy Award.

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 early life
Horner was born in Los Angeles, the son of Austrian immigrants Joan (née Fraenkel) and Harry Horner, who was a production designer, set designer and occasional film director.

Horner started playing piano at the age of five. His early years were spent in London, where he attended the Royal College of Music. He subsequently attended Verde Valley High School in Sedona, Arizona. He received his bachelor's degree in music from the University of Southern California, and eventually earned a master's and started working on his doctorate at the University of California, Los Angeles where he studied with Paul Chihara, among others. After several scoring assignments with the American Film Institute in the 1970s, he finished his teaching of music theory at UCLA and turned to film scoring.

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Name Duration Released
Iknimaya - The Path to Heaven 03:18 15/12/2009
The People 07:43 15/12/2009
You Don't Dream in Cryo. .... 06:09 15/12/2009
Shrunk 05:37 2009
The Machine Works 02:05 2009
Strange Neighbors 01:49 2009
Ant Rodeo 03:45 2009
Main Title 01:59 2009
Watering the Grass 04:13 2009
Night Time 05:04 2009
Flying Szalinski 01:59 2009
Test Run 02:08 2009
Big Russ Volunteers 01:24 2009
Scorpian Attack 03:34 2009
Eaten Alive 02:44 2009
A New World 03:31 2009
Lawn Mower 05:45 2009
Captured 02:14 12/2003
Ambush and Kidnapping 02:35 12/2003
Prologue/Main Title 03:58 12/2003
Infiltration, Showdown and Finale 14:32 12/2003
Matrix Breaks In 03:30 12/2003
Moving Jenny 03:44 12/2003
Sully Runs 04:34 12/2003
Surprise 08:19 12/2003
Break-In 02:34 2003
Behrani's Thoughts - Long Ago 04:49 2003
Parallel Lives, Parallel Loves 05:22 2003
Kathy's Night 02:18 2003
This Is No Longer Your House 03:34 2003
A Return to the Caspian, And to the Iran of Old 06:37 2003
Old Photos, New Memories 03:23 2003
We Have Travelled So Far, It Is Time to Return to Our Path 09:05 2003
The Waves of the Caspian Sea 04:00 2003
The Shooting, A Payment for Our Sins 00:00 2003
An Older Life 01:54 2003
The Dreams of Kings 06:58 2003
Creating 'Governing Dynamics' 00:00 2001
Saying Goodbye to Those You So Love 00:00 2001
Looking for the Next Great Idea 00:00 2001
Of One Heart, of One Mind 00:00 2001
Playing a Game of 'Go!' 00:00 2001
Real or Imagined? 00:00 2001
A Kaleidoscope of Mathematics 00:00 2001
Alicia Discovers Nash's Dark World 00:00 2001
The Car Chase 00:00 2001
First Drop-Off, First Kiss 00:00 2001
All Love Can Be 00:00 2001
Nash Descends into Parcher's World 00:00 2001
The Prize of One's Life... The Prize of One's Mind 00:00 2001
Cracking the Russian Codes 00:00 2001
Teaching Mathematics Again 00:00 2001
Alexander's Ragtime Band 02:31 1998
Epilogue: The Deep & Timeless Sea 12:38 1998
An Irish Party In Third Class 03:48 1998
A Shore Never Reached 04:27 1998
Titanic Suite 19:05 1998
Lament 04:37 1998
Come, Josephine, In My Flying Machine 03:33 1998
Nearer, My God, To Thee 02:51 1998
A Building Panic 08:09 1998
Jack Dawson's Luck 05:39 1998
The Portrait 04:44 1998
Rose 02:52 18/11/1997
A Life So Changed 02:13 18/11/1997
Southampton 04:01 18/11/1997
A Promise Kept 06:02 18/11/1997
Distant Memories 02:23 18/11/1997
Death of Titanic 08:26 18/11/1997
Never an Absolution 03:03 18/11/1997
The Sinking 05:05 18/11/1997
Unable to Stay, Unwilling to Leave 03:56 18/11/1997
Hard to Starboard 06:52 18/11/1997
Hymn to the Sea 06:25 18/11/1997
Take Her to Sea, Mr. Murdoch 04:31 18/11/1997
My Heart Will Go On 05:10 18/11/1997
Leaving Port 03:26 18/11/1997
An Ocean of Memories 07:57 18/11/1997
Bedside Vigil 02:15 1993
Once Upon a Time With Me/End Credits 05:56 1993
The Accident 04:24 1993
The Children/Maybe One Day..., Maybe One Day 04:41 1993
Cornelius's Nature Lesson 03:41 1993
Flying Home to Michelle 06:32 1993
The Forest 09:11 1993
Escaping from the Yellow Dragons/The Meadow 06:36 1993
Once Upon a Time with Me 05:56 1993
Flying 04:49 1993
He's Back 02:00 1993
The Journey Begins 08:08 1993
Please Wake Up 02:36 1993
Foraging for food 07:18 21/11/1988
Diana Ross 04:10 21/11/1988
Whispering winds 09:03 21/11/1988
Sharptooth and the Earthquake 10:35 21/11/1988
The Great Migration 07:52 21/11/1988
End Credits 06:22 21/11/1988
Rescue & discovery of the great valley 12:46 21/11/1988
End Title 00:00 1988
Opening the Pyramid 00:00 1988
Silvia's Vision 00:00 1988
The Lost City 00:00 1988
The Secret Revealed 00:00 1988
Mountain Trek 00:00 1988
Andes Arrival 00:00 1988
Returning to the Sea 04:13 21/06/1985
The Boys Are Out 02:35 21/06/1985
Rose's Death 02:10 21/06/1985
The Chase 04:27 21/06/1985
The Ascension 05:55 21/06/1985
The Lovemaking 04:21 21/06/1985
Sad Goodbyes 02:22 21/06/1985
Through the Window 02:54 21/06/1985
First Tears 01:49 21/06/1985
Discovered in the Poolhouse 02:45 21/06/1985
Gravity 04:52 21/06/1985
Classroom Justice 01:50
The Train 11:11
This Is Who I Am 03:05
Just One Drop Of Nitro 02:40
To The Governor's ... And Then Elena 04:05
Mad Dash / Zorro Unmasked 03:20
Stolen Votes 06:31
A Dinner Of Pigeon / Setting The Explosives 05:04
Collecting The Ballots 03:27
Jailbreak / Reunited 05:36
Joaquin's Capture and Zorro's Rescue 05:00
A Proposal With Pearls / Perilous Times 03:58
My Family Is My Life ... 08:14
The Cortez Ranch 06:35
Statehood Proclaimed 05:00

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