Leonard Rosenman
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Leonard Rosenman (September 7, 1924 – March 4, 2008) was an American Academy Award and Grammy Award winning film, television and concert composer.
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[edit] Life and career
Leonard Rosenman was born in Brooklyn, New York. After service in the Pacific with the Army Air Forces in World War II, he earned a bachelor's degree in music from the University of California, Berkeley. He also studied composition with Arnold Schoenberg, Roger Sessions and Luigi Dallapiccola.[1]
Rosenman composed the scores for such films as East of Eden (1955), Rebel Without a Cause (1955), Fantastic Voyage (1966), Cross Creek (1983) and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986). He wrote incidental music for such television series as The Defenders, The Twilight Zone, Gibbsville and Marcus Welby M.D. He also wrote the theme and almost all of the incidental music used for the entire run of the 1960s World War II television series Combat!.
In his 70s Rosenman was diagnosed with Frontotemporal dementia, a degenerative brain condition with symptoms similar to Alzheimer's disease.
He died March 4, 2008, of a heart attack at his home at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California.[2]
He is survived by his wife Judie Gregg Rosenman, three children, and four grandchildren.
Leonard Rosenman enjoyed astronomy. For his observing he used a 14-inch computerized telescope which he had set up at his home in the Hollywood Hills. The telescope was a Celestron Compustar C-14 that was retrofited by LA Optical CO. in about 1990.[citation needed]
[edit] Awards
Leonard Rosenman earned two Academy Awards:
- Barry Lyndon (1975), for Best Music, Scoring Original Song Score and/or Adaptation (music by Handel, Schubert and others)
- Bound for Glory (1976), for Best Music, Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Best Adaptation Score (the songs of Woody Guthrie)
He also received two Emmy Awards:
- Sybil (1976), for Outstanding Achievement in Music Composition for a Special (Dramatic Underscore), with Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman
- Friendly Fire (1979), for Outstanding Music Composition for a Limited Series or a Special
[edit] Filmography
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[edit] External links
- Leonard Rosenman at the Internet Movie Database
- Leonard Rosenman article at Memory Alpha, a Star Trek wiki
- Leonard Rosenman Turns 80 — Film Music Society (September 7, 2004)
- Leonard Rosenman Remembered — Film Music Society (May 1, 2008)
- Leonard Rosenman at Movie Music UK
