Leonard Rosenman Dies at 83

Posted by Horror Grinder on March 11, 2008

Leonard Rosenman, the composer who brought modernist compositional approaches to mainstream film music, died on Tuesday, March 4, of a heart attack at the age of 83.

Rosenman belonged to a group of young composers who changed the sound of Hollywood film music in the 1950s. Just like Alex North, another composer who was brought from New York to Hollywood to work with director Elia Kazan, Rosenman avoided the neo-romantic idiom that dominated movies completely courtesy…

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