Interstellar (soundtrack)
soundtrack album by Hans Zimmer
Interstellar: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack album composed and arranged by Hans Zimmer for the 2014 film Interstellar by Christopher Nolan. The soundtrack garnered universal acclaim and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score and the Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media.
Background and production
Hans Zimmer had previously worked with director Christopher Nolan several times, scoring Nolan's The Dark Knight film trilogy and Inception. Without revealing the plot of Interstellar, Nolan wrote a short story for Zimmer about a father leaving a child to complete an important job. The story contained two sentences of dialogue: "I’ll come back," and "When?" Nolan then asked Zimmer to spend one day composing some musical interpretations of the story.
I am going to give you an envelope with a letter in it. One page. It's going to tell you the fable at the center of the story. You work for one day, then play me what you have written.
In one night, Zimmer wrote a four-minute piano and organ piece that represented his idea of fatherhood.
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