Klaus Badelt

Klaus Badelt
Klaus Badelt, 2007
Background information
Birth name	Klaus Badelt
Born	December 13, 1968 (1968-12-13) (age 40)
Origin	Frankfurt, Germany
Genres	Film scores
Occupations	Composer, producer, Arranger

Klaus Badelt (born 1968) is a German composer, best known for composing film scores.

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 and K-19: The Widowmaker. He has also collaborated with other Media Ventures composers, such as Harry Gregson-Williams, John Powell, and Zimmer.

While collaborating with Zimmer, Badelt has contributed to the Oscar-nominated scores for 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, Tom Cruise, Sean Penn, Gore Verbinski, and Steven Spielberg.

Badelt co-produced the score to Hollywood box office hit Gladiator, directed by Ridley Scott, as well as writing portions of the score with singer/composer Lisa Gerrard. Having contributed music to Gladiator, Mission: Impossible 2 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. He also was credited for scoring Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, though there is debate^[who?] over how much of the score he actually composed, and how much was contributed by Zimmer and other Media Ventures composers.

Among Badelt's most critically celebrated scores are the Chinese fantasy film The Promise^[1][2][3] and Dreamworks' remake of The Time Machine, the latter which earned him the Discovery of the Year Award at the World Soundtrack Awards 2003.

Discography

2001

• Extreme Days
• Invincible (with Hans Zimmer)
• The Pledge (with Hans Zimmer)

2002

• Equilibrium
• Manfast
• K-19: The Widowmaker
• The Time Machine
• Teknolust

2003

• Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (soundtrack) (with Hans Zimmer et al.)
• Beat the Drum
• Basic
• Ned Kelly
• The Recruit

2004

• Catwoman
• Thunderbirds

2005

• The Promise
• Constantine (with Brian Tyler)

2006

• Rescue Dawn
• Miami Vice
• Poseidon
• 16 Blocks
• Ultraviolet

2007

• Redline
• Heaven and Earth
• Skid Row
• Premonition
• TMNT

2008

• Die Jagd nach dem Schatz der Nibelungen (German TV movie)
• The Scorpion King 2: Rise of a Warrior (direct-to-video)
• Starship Troopers 3: Marauder (direct-to-video)
• Pour Elle

2010

• Valentine

References

External links

• Klaus Badelt at the Internet Movie Database
• Klaus Badelt at Allmusic
• Interview with Stumped Magazine
• Remote Control Fan Site
• ScoreNotes Interview