American composer James Horner, who won two Oscars for the soundtrack of “Titanic” and also created the music of other successes of Billboard as “Avatar” or “Braveheart” , died after crashing his plane Private on Monday in California.
The publication “The Hollywood Reporter” quoted a message posted on the social network Facebook for Horner’s personal assistant, Sylvia Patrycja, who reported the artist’s death.
“We have lost a wonderful person with a huge heart and a great talent. He died doing what he loved. Thanks for all your support,” Patrycja wrote on Facebook, according to the publication.
The plane crashed near the Forest National Parents, around 96 kilometers (60 miles) north of the city of Santa Barbara (California).
The Federal Aviation Administration USA (FAA) confirmed in a statement that the aircraft was a Tucano S312 MK1 of a single motor and the pilot died in the crash .
Throughout his career, Horner received 10 Oscar nominations He won two for the soundtrack of “Titanic” (1997) and the original song from that movie, “My Heart Will Go On” performed by Canadian Celine Dion.
Horner also won nominations for her soundtracks for the films “Alien”, “Apollo 13,” “A Beautiful Mind”, “Avatar”, “Braveheart,” “Field of Dreams” and “House of Sand and Fog” bands, plus the original song “Somewhere Out There “from the children’s movie” An American Tail “(” An American Tail World “).
Among the more than one hundred composed soundtracks they are also “The Mask of the Fox,” “Legends of the Fall,” “Casper,” “Jumanji” and “The Amazing Spider-Man”.
Born in Los Angeles (California) in 1953, Horner started playing the piano at five years , and was formed in London in the Royal College of Music, according to a biography on film Imdb specialized website.
In the 1970s Horner returned to California to continue studying music at two universities in that state until a doctorate in music theory and composition at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
After a while composing soundtracks for student projects came his first high-profile “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan”. (1982), after which he was chained offers filmmakers growing popularity
During his career, Horner worked for George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, James Cameron, Oliver Stone and Ron Howard , among others.
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