Leonard Rosenman

From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Artist

Leonard Rosenman was born in New York in 1924 and studied composition with Arnold Schönberg and Roger Sessions, among others. He gave piano lessons to the young James Dean, and through Dean the director Elia Kazan asked him to score East of Eden (1955). Rosenman brought modernism to the Hollywood film. In The Cobweb (1955) he was one of the first to use twelve-tone music in a major studio film. Rebel Without a Cause (1955) has sharp dissonances and rhythms that let you hear the restlessness of young people. Later he wrote Fantastic Voyage (1966). For Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon (1975) he adapted existing music by Handel and Schubert, among others, and won an Oscar.

Listening

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  East of Eden: Main Title · London Sinfonietta & John Adams, 1955
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  Rebel Without a Cause: Main Title · London Sinfonietta & John Adams, 1955
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  The Voyage to Mordor / Theme from The Lord of the Rings · Leonard Rosenman, 1978

Discography

Studio albums

• 1962Songs of the COMBAT Years (soundtrack)
• 1962The Chapman Report (soundtrack)
• 1970A Man Called Horse (soundtrack)
• 1970Beneath the Planet of the Apes (soundtrack)
• 1978The Lord of the Rings (soundtrack)
• 1986Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (soundtrack)
• 1990RoboCop 2 (soundtrack)
• 1992Keeper of the City (soundtrack)
• 1997East of Eden / Rebel Without a Cause
• 1998Fantastic Voyage (soundtrack)
• 2001Conquest of the Planet of the Apes / Battle for the Planet of the Apes (soundtrack)
• 2003The Cobweb / Edge of the City (soundtrack)
• 2005National Geographic Presents: The Last Vikings / Dr. Leakey and the Dawn of Man (soundtrack)
• 2008Cross Creek (soundtrack)
• 2010Hellfighters (soundtrack)
• 2010Prophecy (soundtrack)
• 2011Telefon / Hide in Plain Sight (soundtrack)
• 2012Alexander the Great and Other Rare Rosenman (soundtrack)
• 2012Bound for Glory (soundtrack)
• 2012The Last Hard Men (soundtrack)
• 2013Escape from Alcatraz / Hell Is for Heroes (soundtrack)
• 2015The Car (soundtrack)
• 2017Making Love/Race With the Devil (soundtrack)
• 2019Ambition (soundtrack)
• 2025Heart of the Stag (soundtrack)

Other work

• 1955East of Eden
• 1955The Cobweb
• 1955Rebel Without a Cause
• 1975Barry Lyndon (bewerking)

In School of Rock

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• Film Music Map^NL Map
• The Dream Factory: Film Reel 2^NL Reader

Mentioned in other articles

• Modernism, atonality and avant-garde GenreLeonard Rosenman, who had studied with Arnold Schönberg, wrote East of Eden (1955) and The Cobweb (1955).

See also

• Modernism, atonality and avant-garde