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Biography
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Life and career
Badelt was born in Frankfurt , Germany . He started his musical career composing for many successful movies and commercials in his homeland. In 1998, Oscar-winning film composer Hans Zimmer invited Badelt to work at Media Ventures in Santa Monica , his studio co-owned by Jay Rifkin . Since then, Badelt has been working on a number of his own film and television projects such as The Time Machine (2002 film)|The 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 Academy Awards|Oscar -nominated scores for The Thin Red Line (1998 film)|The Thin Red Line and The Prince of Egypt , as well as writing music for many well known directors including Ridley Scott , Tony Scott , Terrence Mallick , John Woo , Kathryn Bigelow , Jeffrey Katzenberg , Werner Herzog , Sean Penn , Gore Verbinski , Michael Bay and Steven Spielberg .
Badelt co-wrote and co-produced the score to Hollywood box office hit Gladiator (2000 film)|Gladiator , directed by Ridley Scott, along with Zimmer and singer/composer Lisa Gerrard . Having contributed music to Gladiator (2000 film)|Gladiator , Mission: Impossible 2 and Michael Kamen 's score for X-Men (film)|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 (film)|The Pledge , and 2001 blockbusters Hannibal (film)|Hannibal and Pearl Harbor (film)|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 . http://www.hans-zimmer.com/fr/newsite.php? rub=detail& id=522
In 2004, Klaus branched out of Zimmer's studio and founded his own film music company, Theme Park Studios, in Santa Monica, CA. Since then, he has scored films like " Constantine (film)|Constantine ", " Poseidon (film)|Poseidon ", " Rescue Dawn ", and " TMNT (2007 film)|TMNT ", to name a few.
Among Badelt's most critically celebrated scores are the Chinese fantasy film The Promise (2005 film)|The Promise cite web|url= http://www.filmtracks.com/titles/promise.html |title=The Promise (Klaus Badelt) |publisher=Filmtracks |date=2006-05-16 |accessdate=2011-12-05 http://www.moviemusicuk.us/promisekbcd.htm dead link|date=December 2011cite web|author=Other reviews by Mike Brennan |url= http://www.soundtrack.net/albums/database/? id=3972 |title=The Promise (2006) Soundtrack Album |publisher=Soundtrack.Net |date=2006-02-08 |accessdate=2011-12-05 and Dreamworks ' remake of The Time Machine (2002 film)|The Time Machine , the latter 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 2008 Summer Olympics closing ceremony|Beijing Olympics in 2008, and was commissioned to write the opera about China's First Emperor, to be premiered in 2011.
Known for his dedication, Klaus worked on the soundtrack for The Promise for almost 6 months. The song which can be heard in the movie's end credits is an ancient folk song in China, and very few people can still sing it. For that, Klaus traveled almost two weeks in China to find someone who was able to sing the whole folk song in order to rearrange it for the score.
Discography
2001
Extreme Days
Invincible (2001 film)|Invincible (with Hans Zimmer )
http://www.klaus-badelt.ch/ Swiss-German Fansite, visited by Klaus Badelt too
Commons category|Klaus Badelt Persondata | NAME =Badelt, Klaus | ALTERNATIVE NAMES = | SHORT DESCRIPTION = | DATE OF BIRTH =12 June 1967 | PLACE OF BIRTH = | DATE OF DEATH = | PLACE OF DEATH = DEFAULTSORT:Badelt, Klaus Category:1967 births Category:German film score composers Category:Living people
