Leonard Rosenman

Leonard Rosenman (September 7, 1924 – March 4, 2008) was an American film, television and concert composer with credits in over 130 works, including East of Eden, Rebel Without a Cause, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Battle for the Planet of the Apes, Barry Lyndon, Race with the Devil, and the animated The Lord of the Rings. Life and career Rosenman was born in Brooklyn, New York, United States. Amongst Rosenman’s earliest film work were the scores for James Dean movies East of Eden (1955) and Rebel Without a Cause (1955). and it was Dean who introduced him to director Elia Kazan. Dean also lobbied George Stevens to let Rosenman score Giant, but Stevens preferred Dimitri Tiomkin. Rosenman remarked, “The year I did my first film, I had five major performances in New York.” But “the minute I did my first film, I didn’t have a performance there for 20 years. They would never say, ‘I don’t like them’. They wouldn’t look at them.” Rosenman instead wrote a largely atonal score, with a recurring motif as the main “theme,” building to a tonal conclusion. He provided scores to science fiction movies like Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970), Battle for the P