Hans Zimmer is a composer and keyboard synthesizer player who made popular music history then became one of the most successful film score composers.
Raised and educated mainly in England, he has no formal musical education; he says the most he ever got was about "two weeks of piano lessons." Nevertheless, he took an early interest in electronic musical synthesizers in the 1970s, when these were large, bulky analog devices programmed usually by means of patch cords and individual oscillator settings.
He found work writing tunes and electronically scoring music for television comm