>>148969946>heard (from anons in another thread so you know it's totally true) that he doesn't even compose his music anymore, he just gets his students to do everything and then he just signs off on them.That may have been me. In any case, it's important to get the facts straight. Hans Zimmer doesn't teach. He doesn't have students and students don't get to work for Hans Zimmer. Those are highly coveted positions (even though they can kind of suck ass).
He has a whole city block in LA that is sort of like his factory. This contains Remote Control Studios which creates the film scores as well as Bleeding Fingers (his commercial music production facility).
The people who actually write the music are often referred to as "assistants" but that tends to make people imagine students because assistants in any other field would typically skew young. Those people are actually professional composers themselves between the ages of 25 and up through middle age. The average age of a person working at Remote Control is ~32. Some people keep the gig long term, but it's more often than not a stepping stone. You put some time in working for Remote Control or Bleeding Fingers to beef up the resume. The positions are highly competitive and considering the amount of expertise you have to have, are not particularly well paid, but in a sea of talent, being able to say you worked for Hans Zimmer tends to get people to at least listen to your reel.
"Hans Zimmer" at this point is essentially a brand at this point and he's CEO. He occasionally does still write (rarely), but it's more like coming up with the basic ideas and letting the "assistants" do all the heavy lifting of making it actually go. Other times the "assistants" are doing literally everything.
Zimmer is a bit of an extreme, but most things you see in theaters or on TV are actually written by teams of people despite one person getting credit.