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James Roy Horner (August 14, 1953 – June 22, 2015) was an Academy and Golden Globe award-winning American composer, conductor and orchestrator of film scores. He was known for the integration of choral and electronic elements in many of his film scores, and for his frequent use of motifs associated with Celtic music.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Creative Team )〕 Horner was an accomplished concert hall composer before he moved into writing film scores. His first major film score was for the 1979 film ''The Lady in Red'', but did not establish himself as a mainstream composer until he worked on the 1982 film ''Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan''. Horner's score for ''Titanic'' is the best selling orchestral film soundtrack of all time〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=USATODAY.com - New mom Dion back with new album, Vegas deal )〕 while ''Titanic'' and ''Avatar'', both directed by James Cameron, are the two highest-grossing films of all time.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=All Time Worldwide Box Office Grosses )〕 Horner collaborated on multiple projects with directors including Don Bluth, James Cameron, Walter Hill and Ron Howard; producers including David Kirschner, Jon Landau, Brian Grazer and Steven Spielberg; and songwriters including Will Jennings, Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil. Horner composed music for over 100 films; he won two Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, three Satellite Awards, and three Saturn Awards, and was nominated for three British Academy Film Awards. Horner died at the age of 61 when his single-engine Tucano aircraft crashed in the Los Padres National Forest. ==Early life== Horner was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1953 to Jewish immigrants.〔"Jewish ''Titanic'' composer Horner dies in plane crash", ''The Times of Israel''(), 24 June 2015.〕〔"James Horner", ''Jewish Virtual Library''(), retrieved 10 Sept. 2015.〕 His father, Harry Horner, was born in Holíč, then a part of Austria-Hungary; he emigrated to the United States in 1935 and worked as a set designer and occasional art director. James's mother, Joan Ruth (Frankel), was born into a prominent Canadian family. His brother, Christopher, is a writer and documentary filmmaker.〔 His other brother Anthony is a doctor specializing in pediatric immunology. James Horner started playing piano at the age of five. His early years were spent in London, where he attended the Royal College of Music. He returned to America, where he attended Verde Valley School in Sedona, Arizona, and later received his bachelor's degree in music from the University of Southern California. After he earned a master's degree, he started work on his doctorate at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he studied with Paul Chihara, among others. After several scoring assignments with the American Film Institute in the 1970s, he finished teaching a course in music theory at UCLA and subsequently turned to film scoring.〔MacDonald, Laurence E. ''The invisible art of film music: a comprehensive history''. Ardsley House Publishers, 1998: p. 328 ()〕 Horner was also an avid pilot, and owned several small airplanes.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「James Horner」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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