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.
A short part of his main title theme from the film can be heard in the third season episode .
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 (1955, featuring Gil Perkins). Following this film, Rosenmann composed for such classic films as (1955, featuring Corey Allen, Ian Wolfe, Chuck Hicks and photographed by Ernest Haller), (1959, featuring Biff Elliot, Barry Atwater, Ken Lynch, Paul Comi, Bert Remsen and William Wellman Jr.), Fantastic Voyage (1966, story by Jerome Bixby), and (1975, featuring Steven Berkoff). He won his first Academy Award for the latter film, and won a second for (1976, starring Ronny Cox and Gail Strickland and featuring Bobby Bass). A third Academy Award nomination came his way for (1983, 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 (1979, featuring Paul Baxley). He also received a Golden Globe nomination for scoring (1978, featuring Lou Elias, Felix Silla, and Dennis Madalone).
Rosenman's other film scoring credits include The Cobweb (1955), The Savage Eye (1960), (1962, featuring Chuck Hicks), (1968, featuring Steve Ihnat, Ted Knight and Garrison True), and A Man Called Horse (1970, starring Judith Anderson). He also scored (1970, featuring Jeff Corey and James Gregory) and (1973, starring Roddy McDowall, featuring France Nuyen, Paul Williams, David Gerrold and cinematography by Richard H. Kline). Later credits include 1980's The Jazz Singer, (1990, 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, , and Marcus Welby, M.D., and 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. 
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