Leonard Rosenman Leonard Rosenman was the Academy Award and Emmy Award - winning composer who wrote the music score for . For this score , he earned an Academy Award nomination ( his fourth ) and won an ASCAP Award from the American Society of Composers , Authors and Publishers . Born in Brooklyn , New York , Rosenman moved to California following World War II . A skilled piano player since his teenage years , Rosenman began studying music composition with composers and . Afterward , in 1952 , Rosenman studied with Italian composer in Massachusetts . Rosenman was teaching piano and writing chamber music in New York when film director approached him to compose the score for the acclaimed 1955 film , " East of Eden " . Following this film , Rosenmann composed for such classic films as " Rebel Without a Cause " ( 1955 , featuring Corey Allen , Ian Wolfe , Chuck Hicks and photographed by Ernest Haller ) , " Pork Chop Hill " ( 1959 , featuring Biff Elliot , Barry Atwater , Ken Lynch , Paul Comi , Bert Remsen and William Wellman , Jr . ) , " Fantastic Voyage " ( 1966 , story by Jerome Bixby ) , and Stanley Kubrick ' s " Barry Lyndon " ( 1975 , featuring Steven Berkoff ) . He won his first Academy Award for the latter film , and won a second for 1976 ' s " Bound for Glory " ( starring Ronny Cox and Gail Strickland and featuring Bobby Bass ) . A third Academy Award nomination came his way for 1983 ' s " Cross Creek " ( starring Alfre Woodard and featuring Ike Eisenmann , Malcolm McDowell and cinematography by John A . Alonzo ) , and he received his fourth and final Academy Award nomination for " Star Trek IV " . In addition , Rosenman earned two Emmy Award nominations – winning both – for his scoring of the TV movies " Sybil " ( 1977 ) and " Friendly Fire " ( 1979 , featuring Paul Baxley ) . He also received a Golden Globe nomination for scoring the 1978 animated adaptation of J . R . R . Tolkien ' s " Lord of the Rings " ( featuring Lou Elias , Felix Silla and Dennis Madalone ) . Rosenman ' s other film scoring credits include " The Cobweb " ( 1955 ) , " The Savage Eye " ( 1960 ) , " Hell Is for Heroes " ( 1962 , featuring Chuck Hicks ) , " Countdown " ( 1968 , featuring Steve Ihnat , Ted Knight and Garrison True ) , and " A Man Called Horse " ( 1970 , starring Judith Anderson ) . He also scored the two of the " Planet of the Apes " sequels , 1970 ' s " Beneath the Planet of the Apes " ( featuring Jeff Corey , James Gregory and Lou Wagner ) and 1973 ' s " Battle for the Planet of the Apes " ( featuring France Nuyen , Paul Williams , David Gerrold and cinematography by Richard H . Kline ) . More recent credits include 1980 ' s " The Jazz Singer " , 1990 ' s " Robocop 2 " ( starring Peter Weller and featuring John Glover ) , and 1994 ' s " The Color of Evening " ( featuring Bill Erwin ) . He also scored for episodic television , including " The Defenders " , " Combat ! " , and " Marcus Welby , M . D . " , and even an episode of " The Twilight Zone " . In his later years , Rosenman suffered from Frontotemporal dementia , a degenerative brain condition similar to Alzheimer ' s disease . Regardless , Rosenman continued to compose music into his 80s . He died of a heart attack at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills , California at the age of 83 . A memorial service was held for Rosenman on 28 April 2008 . Among those in attendance was " Star Trek " film director and writer Nicholas Meyer and guest actor Robert Brown , the latter of whom was a close friend of Rosenman ' s . Brown also spoke at the service , relaying his memories of the times he spent with Rosenman . Rosenman is credited with helping to modernize film music in the 1950s and 1960s . Through the application of modern techniques not commonly used at the time , Rosenman brought a more contemporary approach to film composition .