Walter_Gronostay

Walter Gronostay

Walter Gronostay

German composer

Walter Gronostay (1906–1937) was a German composer noted for his work on film scores. Gronostay studied under Arnold Schoenberg.[1] From the late 1920s he began working on film music for a mixture of feature films and documentaries. Along with Herbert Windt he composed the music for Leni Riefenstahl's 1938 documentary Olympia,[2] but died unexpectedly at the age of 31 before the film was released.

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References

  1. [1]
    Mera & Burnand p.14
  2. [2]
    Rother p.89

Bibliography

  • Mera, Miguel & Burnand, David. European Film Music. Ashgate Publishing, 2006.
  • Rother, Rainer. Leni Riefenstahl: The Seduction of Genius. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2003.


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