Leonard Rosenman
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Leonard Rosenman |
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September 7, 1924 Brooklyn, New York, United States |
| Died | March 4, 2008 (aged 83) Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, United States |
| Occupation(s) | Composer, conductor |
| Years active | 1955–2001 |
Leonard Rosenman (September 7, 1924 – March 4, 2008) was an Oscar- and Emmy Award-winning American film, television and concert composer with credits in over 130 works, including Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Beneath the Planet of the Apes and the animated The Lord of the Rings.
Leonard Rosenman was born in Brooklyn, New York. After service in the Pacific with the United States 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.
Amongst Rosenman's earliest film work was the scores for James Dean movies East of Eden (1955) and Rebel Without a Cause (1955). Rosenman had lived together with Dean whom he gave piano lessons to and it was Dean who introduced him to the director Elia Kazan. Dean also lobbied George Stevens to score Giant, but Stevens preferred the more traditional Dimitri Tiomkin.
Rosenman remarked "The year I did my first film, I had five major performances in New York," however. "The minute I did my first film, I didn't have a performance there for 20 years. They would never say, 'I don't like them'. They wouldn't look at them."
He composed the score for Vincente Minnelli's The Cobweb (1955) regarded as the first major Hollywood score to be written in a 12-note (properly called 12-tone) manner. His avant-garde music was used for Martin Ritt's Edge of the City (1956) and John Frankenheimer's The Young Stranger (1957). He composed scores for war films such as William Wellman's biographical Lafayette Escadrille (1958), Lewis Milestone's Pork Chop Hill (1959), Delbert Mann's The Outsider (1961), Don Siegel's Hell is for Heroes (1962) and the Combat! television series (1962). He wrote incidental music for such television series as Law of the Plainsman, The Defenders, The Twilight Zone, Gibbsville and Marcus Welby, M.D..
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