Alf Clausen, the longtime composer of The Simpsons who scored greater than 560 episodes of the animated collection, had died on the age of 84.
Clausen died after a decade-long battle with Progressive Supernuclear Palsy (PSP).
A two-time Emmy Award winner with 30 further nominations, Clausen offered the music for The Simpsons for 27 years, composing a singular piece every week accompanied by a 35-piece orchestra.
In a cost-cutting measure, Fox fired Clausen in 2017, main the composer to sue the community for ageism and incapacity discrimination two years later. He later dropped the go well with, and Simpsons producers acknowledged in later seasons as “composer emeritus.”
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“I believe that’s one of many causes they’ve saved me all these years: they have been on the lookout for someone who may rating all these various kinds of music in small clip-form,” Clausen mirrored in a 2017 interview with Consequence. “That’s what’s been enjoyable for me. I believe that anybody else who would have been employed for this job and stayed for this lengthy would have gone to the nuthouse.”
Clausen additionally composed music for the tv collection ALF, and effectively contributed to movies like The Bare Gun, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, and Bizarre Science.