Thomas Morse
Thomas Morse( born June 30, 1968) is an American composer of film and concert music.
George Gershwin
George Gershwin (born Jacob Bruskin Gershowitz, September 26, 1898 – July 11, 1937) was an American composer and pianist whose compositions spanned both popular and classical genres.
Among his best-known works are the orchestral compositions "Rhapsody in Blue" (1924) and "An American in Paris" (1928), the songs "Swanee" (1919) and "Fascinating Rhythm" (1924), the jazz standard "
I Got Rhythm" (1930), and the opera "Porgy and Bess" (1935) which spawned the hit "Summertime".
Gershwin studied piano under Charles Hambitzer and composition with Rubin Goldmark, Henry Cowell, and Joseph Brody.
He began his career as a song plugger but soon started composing Broadway theater works with his brother Ira Gershwin and with Buddy DeSylva.
He moved to Paris intending to study with Nadia Boulanger, but she refused him.
He subsequently composed "An American in Paris", returned to New York City and wrote "Porgy and Bess" with Ira and DuBose Heyward.
Initially a commercial failure
, it came to be considered one of the most important American operas of the twentieth century and an American cultural classic.
Gershwin moved to Hollywood and composed numerous film scores.
He died in 1937 of a malignant brain tumor.
His compositions have been adapted for use in film and television, with several becoming jazz standards recorded and covered in many variations.
Amedeo Escobar
Amedeo Escobar( 1888–1973) was an Italian composer of film scores.
Manhattan (1979 film)
Manhattan is a 1979 American romantic comedy film directed by Woody Allen and produced by Charles H. Joffe.
The screenplay was written by Allen and Marshall Brickman.
Allen co-stars as a twice-divorced 42-year-old comedy writer who dates a 17-year-old girl (Mariel Hemingway) but falls in love with his best friend (Michael Murphy)'s mistress (Diane Keaton).
Meryl Streep and Anne Byrne also star.
"Manhattan" was filmed in black-and-white and 2.35:1 widescreen.
It features music by George Gershwin, including "Rhapsody in Blue", which inspired the film.
Allen described the film as a combination of "Annie Hall" and "Interiors".
The film received critical acclaim and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Hemingway and Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen for Allen and Brickman.
Its North American box-office receipts of $39.9 million made it Allen's second biggest box-office hit (adjusting for inflation).
Often considered one of his best films, it ranks 46th on AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs list and number 63 on Bravo's "100 Funniest Movies".
In 2001 the United States Library of Congress deemed the film "culturally significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry.
Many see "Manhattan"'s portrayal of a middle-aged man dating a teenager differently in the Me Too era than it was seen at the time of the film's release.
Walter Ulfig
Walter Ulfig was a German composer of film scores.
Bert Grund
Bert Grund( 1920–1992) was a German composer of film scores.
Alonso Mudarra
Alonso Mudarra( c. 1510 – April 1, 1580) was a Spanish composer of the Renaissance, and also played the vihuela, a guitar- shaped string instrument.
He was an innovative composer of instrumental music as well as songs, and was the composer of the earliest surviving music for the guitar.
Abe Meyer
Abe Meyer( 1901 – 1969) was an American composer of film scores.
Tarcisio Fusco
Tarcisio Fusco was an Italian composer of film scores.
He was the brother of the composer Giovanni Fusco and the uncle of operatic soprano Cecilia Fusco.
Henri Verdun
Henri Verdun( 1895–1977) was a French composer of film scores.

Question: Why did the composer of film Manhattan (1979 Film) die?
Answer: malignant brain tumor