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Hollywood Composer - Hans Zimmer

With scores like The Lion King, for film directors he's the composer to work with.

From his Oscar-winning score for The Lion King, through 12 Years A Slave to a series of superhero blockbusters including Batman v Superman, Hans Zimmer is, as one director put it, 'quite simply the contemporary composer to work with'. German born and British educated, he never received formal musical training and is a champion of technology. Shaun Ley asks Hans Zimmer whether the technology he so loves is killing the music makers.

Image: Hans Zimmer, Credit: Justin Tallis/AFP/Getty Images

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