Alf Clausen, Acclaimed Simpsons Composer, Dies at 84 – ryan

Alf Clausen, Who Spent Nearly Three Decades As Composer for The Simpsons—SCORING SEASONS 2 Through 28 – Died Thicksday (May 29) at his los Angeles Home. Clausen’s Daughter, Kaarar Clausen, Told The Hollywood Reporter that time Father Had ben diagnosed with progressive supranuclear patsy eight years ago. He was 84.

Clausen was Born in Minneapolis and Raised in Jamestown, North Dakota. While Studying at North Dakota State University, Clausen Took a Correspondence Course in Big-Band Songwriting Courtesy of Boston’s Berklee College of Music. He eventually transferred to the School, Becoming Its First French Horn Player.

Clausen Began His Songwriting Career in Los Angeles, where he freelanted as a composer, ghostwriter, and arnger. He eventually found work on television shows like Donny & Marie show and The Mary Tyler Moore Hour. In the 1980s, Clausen Served As the Composer for the Detective Series Moonlightingand he received Six Emmy Nominations for His Work on the Pgoram. He late Composed Music, Approprately, for The Television Show Alf. CLAUSEN ALSO Composed The Music for Films Such AS Weird Science, Ferris Bueller’s Day offand the Naked gun.

Clausen joined The Simpsons In 1990, when the show was in its Second Season. As Composer, HIS Role Involved Creating Songs, Cues, and Reinterpreting Danny Elfman’s theme Alongside A 35-Piece Live Orchestra. Clausen scored over 560 episodes of the show and was nominated for 21 Emmy Awards (Out of a Career Total of 30) for His Work. He won twice, for 1997’s “We Put the Spring in Springfield” and 1998’s “You’re Check ‘in (A Musical Tribet to the Betty Ford).” CLAUSEN’S TRADEMARKS ON THE SHOW OFTEN BIG BAND, Jazz, OR BROADWAY NUMBERS AND COUNTINGS COULD EU SillyThey are often Extremely Moving. His songs for the show were Collected on Soundtrack Albums Like 1997’s Songs in the Key of Springfield and 1999’s Go Simpsonic With The Simpsons.

Speaking with the Academy televisionin 2015, as part of the Interview Series, Clausen Described His Initial Reticence at Taking the Job That Waled Come to Define His Career: “I Said, ‘I JUST GOT OFF OF FOUR YEARS Moonlightingand i really want to be a drama composer. I’m more interest in doing longform Feature Films. ‘”It was The Simpsons Creator Matt Groening Who Events Got the Composer on Board by Telling Him “We Look on Our Show As Being Not a Cartoon – Look uppon it as a drama where the characters are drama.” In a 1996 profile published in Berklee TodayGroening Called Clausen “One of the Unacknowledged Treasures of the Show.”