Leonard Rosenman
Leonard Rosenman ( born September 7, 1924 in Brooklyn, New York, † March 4, 2008 in Woodland Hills ) was an American film music composer.
Leonard Roseman's first work as a film composer was the film East of Eden from the year 1955. Prior to his career, he worked as a piano teacher, a study of art, he broke off. As a piano teacher, he taught the actor James Dean.
Rosenman, who had studied composition with Arnold Schoenberg, among other things, brought his idiosyncratic film music for Vincente Minnelli's psychiatry drama The Lost ( The Cobweb, 1955) twelve-tone music to the movies.
Rosenman composed besides the music for numerous movies for television series such as The Twilight Zone, Quincy and Falcon Crest.
Rosenman was nominated four times for an Academy Award; Barry Lyndon and this land is my land ( Woody Guthrie - biography from 1976, with David Carradine ) he ever received a gold statue. Twice he was awarded for his work with the Emmy.
Roseman's last film score for a feature film was in 2001 for Yuri. In the last years before his death he had been afflicted with frontotemporal dementia, completely withdrawn from the public.
Rosenman was married since 1989.