Re:My failed music career
by rorykoehler on Friday September 11, 2020 @05:06AM
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Hans Zimmer is a different case. He is basically a curator these days. He has teams of people writing and arranging for him.
Classical musicians also had such teams.
As did painters (often famous classic paintings are prepared by the painters students who work for them and then just finished or merely signed by the painter).
Heck, pop musicians have those. The top-40 is full of professional co-writers and ghost-writers and producer teams (while the "star" gets the songwriting credits).
Musically, I don't think you lose your abilities as you get older. In fact, I would say you become even better. The most visible example of this is among movie composers. Morricone was in his late 30s when he scored "The Good, The Bad, The Ugly". Hans Zimmer has done some of his best work in his 50s.