Walter Gronostay | |
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Born | 29 July 1906 Berlin, Brandenburg German Empire |
Died |
10 October 1937 (aged 31) Potsdam, Brandenburg Germany |
Occupation | Composer |
Years active | 1929 - 1937 (film) |
Walter Gronostay (1906–1937) was a German composer noted for his work on film scores. Gronostay studied under Arnold Schoenberg. From the late 1920s he began working on film music for a mixture of feature films and documentaries. Along with Herbert Windt he composed the music for Leni Riefenstahl's 1938 documentary Olympia, but died unexpectadly at the age of 31 before the film was released.