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Who is your favorite film composer?

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I want to expand my breadth of knowledge so I have been asking everyone, who is your favorite film composer? What is your favorite score? Mancini? Hermann? Zimmerman? Elfman? John Williams? John Barry? Michael Kamen?

Just found out Michael J Lewis who is one of my favs and did the score for the animated The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is making his own movie and has samples of the score on his website http://www.youmakemydaythemovie.com definitely worth checking out. Wrote songs for it as well, can see music video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMvqfxsyYQs
 
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Hans Zimmer and all his slaves he employs.

John Williams = one of the best of all time.

Danny Elfman = one of the best of all time.

How about the spaghetti western composer? He made the electric guitar's wah-wah pedal an essential part of what we immediately think as "western" and it didn't even EXIST back in that time period!
 
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Saying John Williams sounds cliche, but how can he not be my favorite?

He may plagiarize a bit, but whatever he writes is still unique and always completely perfect for the film and setting.

I simply cannot hear the melody from the Harry Potter theme without needing to see one of those movies, it was just so frickin perfect.

I also really love Yann Tiersen, who did the soundtracks to Amelie and Goodbye Lenin. I think he's just more of a musician who happened to score a couple films, but that still makes him a composer....right? :)
 
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