Leonard Rosenman
Leonard Rosenman (* 7. September 1924 in Brooklyn , New York ; † 4. March 2008 in Woodland Hills , California ) was a US -American film music - composer .
life and career
Leonard Rosenman turned to music after serving as a soldier in World War II . He studied composition with Arnold Schönberg , among others . Before beginning his career as a film composer, he worked as a piano teacher, but dropped out of art studies. As a piano teacher, he taught the actor James Dean . He then wrote his first work as a film composer for two film classics starring James Dean: Beyond Eden and ... because they don't know what they're doing , both from 1955. The following year, Rosenman brought his idiosyncratic score for Vincente Minnelli's psychiatric drama The Lost ( The Cobweb , 1955) brought twelve-tone music to the cinema.
In addition to the music for numerous films, Rosenman also composed for television series such as Twilight Zone , Quincy and Falcon Crest . He was nominated four times for an Oscar ; for his compositions on Barry Lyndon and This Land is My Land ( Woody Guthrie biography from 1976, with David Carradine ) he was each awarded a gold statue. He has received two Emmy awards for his work .
Rosenman's last score for a feature film was made for Jurij in 2001 . In total, his work includes more than 100 film and television productions. In the last few years before his death, suffering from frontotemporal dementia , he had withdrawn completely from the public.
Rosenman had been married since 1989.
Filmography (selection)
- 1955: East of Eden ( East of Eden )
- 1955: ... because they don't know what they're doing ( Rebel Without a Cause )
- 1955: The Lost (The Cobweb)
- 1957: A Man Conquers Fear ( Edge of the City )
- 1957: Bomber B-52 ( Bombers B-52 )
- 1961: The bite the dust ( Hell Is for Heroes )
- 1962: The Chapman Report ( The Chapman Report )
- 1965: Fantastic Voyage ( Fantastic Voyage )
- 1967: Countdown: Start to the moon ( countdown )
- 1970: Beneath the Planet of the Apes ( Beneath the Planet of the Apes )
- 1970: A man whom they called horse ( A Man Called Horse )
- 1973: Battle for the Planet of the Apes ( Battle for the Planet of the Apes )
- 1974: The Phantom of Hollywood ( The Phantom of Hollywood )
- 1975: Barry Lyndon
- 1976: This Land is My Land ( Bound for Glory )
- 1978: An Enemy of the People
- 1978: The Lord of the Rings ( The Lord Of The Rings )
- 1979: prophecy (Prophecy)
- 1980: The Jazz Singer (The Jazz Singer)
- 1983: Cross Creek (Cross Creek)
- 1986: Star Trek IV: Back to the Present ( Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home )
- 1990: RoboCop 2
Web links
- Leonard Rosenman in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Composer Leonard Rosenman dies . In: Variety , March 4, 2008 (English)
- Film composer Rosenman is dead! OutNow.CH, March 5, 2008
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wolfgang Fuhrmann: Musical modernist. On the death of the film composer Leonard Rosenman . In: Berliner Zeitung , March 11, 2008
- ↑ Vanity Fair (Germany), 12/2008, p. 27
- ↑ filmmusicsociety.org
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Rosenman, Leonard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American composer of film scores |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 7, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brooklyn , New York City, United States |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 4, 2008 |
| Place of death | Woodland Hills (Los Angeles) , California, United States |