Klaus Badelt
Biography
Klaus Badelt (12 June 1967, Frankfort, German) is a German composer, best known for composing film scores.
Badelt started his musical career composing for movies and commercials in his homeland. In 1998, Oscar-winning film composer Hans Zimmer invited Badelt to work in Hollywood. Since then, Badelt has been working on a number of his own film and television projects such asThe Time Machine and K-19: The Widowmaker. 'He also collaborated with other Media Ventures composers, such as Harry Gregson-Williams, John Powell, and Zimmer; and mentored several others like Ramin Djawadi and Steve Jablonsky.
While collaborating with Zimmer, Badelt contributed to the Oscar-nominated scores for The Thin Red Line and The Prince of Egypt, and wrote music for many well known directors including Ridley Scott, Tony Scott, Terrence Malick, and Steven Spielberg.
Having contributed music to Gladiator, Mission: Impossible II and Michael Kamen's score for X-Men, Badelt was involved in the three most successful movies in 2000. Badelt also collaborated with Zimmer on other successful films, such as The Pledge, and 2001 blockbusters Hannibal and Pearl Harbor. One of his more famous and popular scores was for the 2003 film Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.
In 2004, Klaus founded his own film music company, Theme Park Studios, in Santa Monica. Since then, he has scored films such as Constantine, Poseidon, Rescue Dawn, and TMNT.
Among Badelt's most critically celebrated scores are the Chinese fantasy film The Promise and DreamWorks' remake of The Time Machine, the latter of which earned him the Discovery of the Year Award at the World Soundtrack Awards 2003. He also wrote the music for the closing ceremonies at the Beijing Olympics in 2008,.
Works for Winds
Adaptable Music
- Pirates of the Caribbean (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Sweeney) (2003/2006)
All Wind Works
- Pirates of the Caribbean (arr. Sweeney) (2006)
- Pirates of the Caribbean (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Sweeney) (2003/2006)
- Pirates of the Caribbean Soundtrack Highlights (arr. Ricketts) (2003)
- Pirates of the Caribbean Symphonic Suite (arr. Wasson) (2003)
- Poseidon Theme (arr. Bernaerts) (2007)
- Selections from "Pirates of the Caribbean" (arr. Morita) (2011)
Resources
- Klaus Badelt website Accessed 4 August 2020
- Klaus Badelt, Wikipedia