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Hans Zimmer was used to listening to Mozart’s music at home when he was little. In his family house they never had a television, but music by Mozart, Bach and Beethoven playing throughout the day. Mozart influenced Hans throughout his life, and this can be seen reflected in some of his scores.  In fact, during an interview for The Hollywood Reporter, he was asked about The Lion King and his style of music for the film. To which Zimmer affirmed that his music was “African choirs with Mozart in harmony”. Appelo, T. (2014, November 3). Composer Hans Zimmer Talks “Interstellar” Origin, Punk Influence on “Dark Knight” (Exclusive Video). The Hollywood Reporter.

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The famous Singer-songwriter greatly influenced Agnes Obel in the creation and composition of her album, Citizens of Glass. She admires his music because when you listen to it, you can feel that longing and sweetness. You can feel how his songs get tinged with melancholy and a sort of darkness. So, every sweet tune that he did, had always somehow, a nightmare underneath it. The Buzz. (2016, December 6). Agnes Obel | Buzz Artist Spotlight Agnes Talks “Citizen of Glass” and How She Started in Music. Agnes loves that combinations and that is something she tried to do on her album.

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The member of the American pop band, The Walker Brothers, inspired Agnes with the mental state that he was able to create with his music. Agnes Obel used to be “obsessed with musicians who created dramatic landscapes in their records” such as Scott Walker The Guardian. (2016, October 17). Agnes Obel: “It’s called a Trautonium – and it can electrocute people!” The Guardian. When she first listened to Nite Flight and The Electrician by The Walker Brothers, she thought it was beautiful and experimental. Agnes thought that Scott could make you immerse yourself in his music, into his head and that is something that inspired her when she composed her album Citizen of Glass . According to her, he was capable of “paint a huge world just with sound”. Agnes Obel wanted to cause that same effect on people with her own music.

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This famous jazz pianist influenced Agnes Obel when she was little, when it came to deciding on the style of music, she liked best to play on the piano. Since she was a child, she never liked the Chopin orchestral and symphonic pieces that her mother used to play Télérama. (2011, February 5). La soif de spleen d’Agnes Obel. Télérama.

She was drawn to simple melodies that she was able to understand, and she liked jazz. As time goes by, this influence Jan Johansson had on her, was reflected in her songs, in her simple but delicate compositions and in her bewitching melancholy.

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The famous Beatle had a great influence on Bowie as a songwriter. He thought John was “the very best of what could be done with rock 'n' roll” Far Out Magazine. (2021, September 7). The crucial advice John Lennon gave to David Bowie. Faroutmagazine.co.uk.

They both had the opportunity to collaborate and write together the song called Fame, performed by Bowie.

Lennon defined for David Bowie how could change pop and permeate it with certain elements of other forms of art, often producing something beautiful, powerful, and strange. Berklee College of Music. (2016, January 12). David Bowie | Berklee Commencement Address 1999.

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The English composer Stanley Myers influenced Hans Zimmer because he was his mentor and friend. They met in 1980 and since Myers didn't know much about technology, he put Zimmer in charge of all electronic instruments. Myers taught Zimmer about orchestration and allowed him to collaborate on projects right away Hexel, V. (2016). Hans zimmer and james newton howard's the dark knight : A film score guide. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated. During his formative years, Hans gained experience and insights into collaborative and creative work by working with film directors. Thanks to the collaboration between mentor and apprentice for the film My Beautiful Laundrette (1985), Zimmer became known, being noticed by other Hollywood directors and thus being able to work in films like Rain Man. For this reason, Myers was a great influence and perhaps, if they had not met, Hans Zimmer would not have gotten to work on so many scores. It was Stanley Myers who, in a certain way, pushed him to become the Hans Zimmer that everyone knows today.

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This Italian composer had a great influence on Hans Zimmer as a musician. It was after watching Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) in the cinema when he was little, when he realized what he wanted to do and he got into film because of him Gramophone. (2020, July 6). Ennio Morricone – my inspiration, by Hans Zimmer. Personally, one of the similarities that I find in both of their works is that not everything they do is or sounds “pretty”. In Dune, in the opening scene, Zimmer uses human voices making them sound strident and rude Warner Bros. UK & Ireland. (2021, December 10). Dune - 10 Minute Preview - Warner Bros. UK. Becoming sounds that can even be unpleasant, but that sounds good in the movie scene. Morricone did the same thing years ago in the movie a Fistful of Dynamite on the track called “The March of the Beggars”, starting off with a burp on a bassoon Morricone, E. (2012, April 28). Ennio Morricone - Marcia degli accattoni - Originale - Giù La Testa (1971).

‌Zimmer's admiration for Morricone is such, that even in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, there's one cue called "Parlay" which is a riff on “Man with a Harmonica” from Once Upon a Time in the West. For Hans Zimmer, Ennio is above any composer because of his inventiveness and his daring, and at the same time because of the way his music becomes intensely personal.

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One of David Bowie's references were the punk and alternative rock music band called The Velvet Underground. He was inspired by their fringe New York music style for the songs of his album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. The Velvet Underground did not only inspired David Bowie but are also considered nowadays, the roots of underground music, indie and alternative, post-punk, and art-punk with their albums: The Velvet Underground & Nico, White Light/White Heat, The Velvet Underground and Loaded Kot, G. (2014, October 21). The Velvet Underground: As influential as The Beatles?.

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This British musician became an inspiration for Bowie when he created his iconic character Ziggy Stardust. Vince Taylor was an artist who destroyed himself after succumbing to his wild lifestyle and who, after a nervous breakdown, claimed to be a divine being (Ziggy Stardust Came from Isleworth - BBC Sounds, n.d.). This type of behavior was the inspiration behind Bowie's character. For him, Vince Taylor was an example of what could happen in rock n roll, and he was never sure if he considered him an idol or someone to avoid becoming.

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She is an influence on me because I realized that I wanted to make music while listening to her Neo-classical and chamber pop songs The Irish Times. (2020, March 14). Agnes Obel: Architect of eerie, otherworldy music. The Irish Times.

She has a very unique style combining rock with strings, piano and vocal harmonies.
Every time I listen to her music while reading, I feel like I'm in a movie. She makes me feel completely immersed. She inspires me because of the strong impact she has with her songs and the different emotions she can make you feel while listening to them. This is how I felt when I listened to her albums called Citizen of Glass and Aventine for the first time. She is capable of transporting people in a hypnotic way to her particular sound universe. She makes me want to produce that same effect on other people with my own music and make them feel things. She inspires me to keep working on what I am passionate about and work hard to be part of the music industry in the future.

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He inspires me as a songwriter. He has a unique personality which he knows how to express and capture incredibly well in his music. He was an artist and he never cared about other people’s opinion. He always stayed true to himself. David Bowie is a person who tells stories with his songs and knows how to communicate his ideas to the world through them.

He created and played characters he made up for each album CBC News: The National. (2016, January 11). David Bowie Explains Ziggy Stardust, like he did for the first time with The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. That album tells the story of an androgynous rock star who is sent to earth to tell its inhabitants of the anticipated destruction of their planet. After listening to that album and its science fiction story behind the lyrics, it became my favorite and at the same time, David Bowie inspired and encouraged me through his stories to develop my creativity.

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I chose him as my first influence because he never ceases to amaze me with his work. He uses innovative techniques when recording and has invented new instruments and sounds (that don't even exist), just as he did with the Dune score How “Dune” Composer Hans Zimmer Created the Oscar-Winning Score | Vanity Fair (n.d.), in addition to using the human voice in many of his soundtracks as one more instrument. He is a person with impressive ideas and never fails to impress. He knows exactly how to create unique sounds according to the scenes in movies, making you feel completely absorbed. He influences and inspires me when it comes to create my own music. I admire his way of innovating just as he did with the Dune score and it was from the moment I listened to it, that I knew that I wanted to make great things in the music industry.