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Film composer Klaus Badelt gained recognition in his native Germany for scoring dozens of films and commercials. In 1998, he accepted Academy Awar d winner Hans Zimmer's invitation to relocate to Santa Monica in order to work at Media Ventures.The soundtrack for Pirates of the Caribbean was originally composed by Alan Silvestri, who left the project prior to the film's release.

Credited to Klaus Badelt, a protege of Hans Zimmer, it was hastily assembled at the last minute, resulting in a paint-by-numbers exercise in big studio fluff that required the work of several unnamed composers. Badelt and his mysterious co-conspirators have created a schizophrenic pastiche of Hollywood excess - much like the film itself - disguised as a traditional score.

The swashbuckling is propelled by an instantly unmemorable - albeit rousing - motif that contains bits of every action score in existence. 'Fog Bound' starts off with a sprightly Celtic flair before dissolving into a generic Jerry Bruckheimer wash of keyboard strings and synthetic flute patches. This is the case for much of the record, resulting in inspired flashes of creativity here and there. James Christopher Monger, Rovi Explore this item.

That is remarkably close. I know Hans Zimmer scored Gladiator and was involved in the production of the first Pirates soundtrack, and Klaus Badelt co-wrote many of the themes with Zimmer. I'm honestly surprised by this. Not having seen Gladiator, does that song reappear throughout the score, or is it a simple tune used once and forgotten? If it's the latter, then it is possible that Zimmer wanted to expand upon the existing theme, thus elevating it to its level of primacy in the Pirates trilogy.Edit: Skummel Maske, you beat me to my conclusion.

I have to learn to type faster. Speaking of that track 'The Battle' from the Gladiator soundtrack, Zimmer was sued by the Holst Foundation for copyright infringement because parts of it are quite similar to 'Mars, the Bringer of War' from Holst's suite 'The Planets'.I still think that both instances could be from film makers using temp scores and wanting something similar to the music they had in there.I think the POTC theme has a similar feel to it as the clip above, but I think it's far from a rip of it. And even so, Zimmer worked on both, I don't think anyone is going to get mad at you for ripping from yourself.