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Known for
Music Director
Gender
Male
Date of Birth
1924-09-07
Location
New York, United States
Edit pageLeonard Rosenman
Biography
Leonard Rosenman was born on September 7, 1924 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He was a composer, known for Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986), Barry Lyndon (1975), and La La Land (2016). He was married to Judie Gregg, Kay Scott, and Adele Bracker. He died on March 4, 2008 in Woodland Hills, California, USA.
He was a concert composer when his friend James Dean introduced him to director Elia Kazan. Kazan asked the composer to write the score for "East of Eden," thus beginning Rosenman's film career.
He was a good friend of Leonard Nimoy, who hired him to compose the score for Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986).
Oscar and Emmy award-winning American film composer, a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley. Studied composition under Arnold Schoenberg, Roger Sessions, and Luigi Dallapiccola.
In addition to his often modernistic film scores (of which a notable example is The Cobweb (1955)), he wrote a double-bass concerto, two violin concertos, and, in 1996, the "Dinosaur" symphony.
Served in the Pacific with the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II.
