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I found an intersting answer in Quora by someone called(Jay Strauss)He is a composer and studied with John Williams in Juilliard School
“As both the Head of the School of Music at a top 20 globally ranked university and as a former Juilliard School faculty member my answer is that Hans Zimmer absolutely ranks as one of the greatest and most influential composers of all time.
His music is certainly as well known around the world as Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky and probably more well known than Bach,Brahms, Mahler, Strauss, Wagner, Ravel and Raxhmaninoff. The defining of the term “greatness” is also problematic, does it mean more well known or if it is a level of evaluation what are the criteria and who is assessing that criteria, specialists or amateurs? It also depends on what the criteria of evaluation is.
In terms of the criteria of “classical composers” like the complexity of harmony or counterpoint, Hans Zimmer is not that kind of composer. Just as Beethoven is a poor example of Percussion writing or innovative sound spatialisation. Hans Zimmer’s innovations are in the combination of the world of classical composition with the world of audio engineering, mixing and sound design. In that world he is the most influential composer of the 21st century and the most innovative. He is one of the only composers to address all the parameters of sound including recording, engineering and sound design. If compared to the great classical masters one could argue that Hans is the only one who has created unique and original sounds to compose with beyond the standard orchestra and found individual ways of recording and mixing them.
In conclusion it is always difficult to find a single criteria of measurement to compare music by the great composers whose output and compositional technique is so varied and diverse. Just as Beethoven set the standard by which proceeding classical music was to be measured, Hans Zimmer certainly has done the same in the 21st century.”
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