Senior composer Alf Clawson The Simpsons,,,,, moonlight And, purely coincidental, alfalready dead. He is 84 years old.

Clausen died Thursday at his home in Los Angeles' Valley Village. Hollywood Reporter. She said he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease about eight years ago.

from The Simpsons'Season 2 of 1990 until Season 28 of 2017, Clausen elaborated on many vibrant melodies that contributed to the cutting-edge madness of the Fox animation show. Starting with 23 Emmy nominations, he won the songs “We Put Spring in Springfield” and “Your Musical Contributions at the Betty Ford Center) with lyricist Ken Keeler in 1997 and ’98.

However, his harmonious relationship with the show won't last, Clausen The Simpsons.

Clausen's breakthrough as a TV composer was in the ABC Series in 1985 moonlight. At that time, he spent years doing a lot, from directing and choreography to creating other music for film and television projects.

Lee Holdridge, who is moonlight Al Jarreau performed the theme song, asking series creator Glenn Gordon Caron to hire Clausen. Caron did so, but to hedge his bet, he hired another composer to alternate episodes with Clausen. On the fourth performance, another composer was let go, and Clawson scored the final score throughout the five seasons.

moonlightThe innovative structure presents a range of challenges for Clausen. The 1985 plot, “Dreams Always Ring Two,” offers a film noir flashback (shooted in black and white) in a 1940s nightclub, backed by Cybill Shepherd, backed by a big band, sang sultry Torch songs, playing the sultry Torch songs and playing the trumpet starring Bruce Bruce Willis. The second year Atomic Shakespeare shows a musical imitation tame In the Middle Ages. Clausen won the Emmy Noms in these episodes, then landed two more episodes in 1988 and 1989.

Clausen is also responsible for alf. He provided the theme song and introduced a joke, Alien Life Form (ALF) for more than 100 episodes of the 1986-90 NBC sitcom, which was portrayed as a fluffy puppet. (Asked if Alf was named after him, Clawson's standard reply was: "No, but I grant them the right to use my face as a portrait!)

Clawson initially resisted The Simpsons'The performance was first offered in 1990. The show just finished its first season (its opening theme is written by Danny Elfman), and it seems to be similar to what he has done in the past five years.

“I was asked a question, ‘Do you want to rate animated performances?’ I said, ‘No,’ Clawson recalled in a conversation with The Femplacks, the 2015 TV Academy Foundation website. “I said, ‘I just left for four years. moonlight I really want to be a drama composer. I was more interested in making a long feature film. '"

But series creator Matt Groing convinced Clausen The Simpsons It's exactly what he wants.

"We see the show as being, not a cartoon, and we see it as a drama that draws the characters," Groening told Clousen. "We want it to score in that way. Can you do it?" I said, "Yes, I can do it."

Groing wants the music to always reflect the character's emotions, not the action on the screen. "He said he didn't want it to score like a typical Warner Bros. He didn't want it to score like a typical Disney cartoon," Clawson said. "He wanted something different."

Clausen's first mission was the 1990 "Tree House of Terror." He said he was happy to have offered an opportunity for 42 music tips and the producer didn't back down when he asked for a double recording session to generate them.

He keeps it The Simpsons Humming over 550 episodes and using the live full band scores. Among the many memorable novels he wrote in the process are “Vote for the Winner,” “See My Vest,” “Always My Father,” “Ode to Branson,” and “United Strike Folk Songs (Part 1 and Part 2)”.

His imitation of "Candy Man" in 1998 was performed by U2.

Clausen remembered in a 2012 interview that there must be about 50 people in the booths in all the legal, production and publicity staff in the show, studio and band.

"Our first song, Bono did a really good job, but I knew there were a few things that would be better," Clawson said. "He got along well with me and we got in touch from the moment we met. So when he finished his first box office, I talked to him in the studio and said, "Boy, that's really good." But, you know, I think you can be a better person. '

"And I heard 50 people behind me gasping! They couldn't believe that I told Bono that he could record better recordings. But he and I were used to attending the studio and getting used to the process of recording. We knew we got the best out there, he could do the best, and he was good at it."

Alf Heiberg Clausen was born on March 28, 1941 in Minneapolis. His mother, Magdalene, spent a weekend off at Iowa State University, shopping at department stores while she was at work.

He lived in Ames, Iowa until his mom obtained her degree, when the family moved to Jamestown, North Dakota. His father, also known as ALF, was an occupational therapist at the city's mental hospital. His mom works in Stutsman County and helps residents deal with laws on home ownership.

Clausen grew up and loved toy trains, cars and music. He was a piano class since he was a child, and two of his favorite activities were listening to their parents' orchestral records collection on their Victrola American Bandstand On the new TV in the family.

In the seventh grade, he was assigned the European horn, a tool he became his choice in high school.

Clausen at North Dakota State University My fair lady,,,,, The story on the west side and Musician On concerts like Broadway and Miles Davis.

While working at the University of Wisconsin, Clausen took a correspondence course at the Berklee College of Berklee Music College in Boston to learn how to arrange and compose music. He found himself enjoying making music, not playing it, and moved to Boston to study in Berklee. Eventually, he was still there to teach.

Clausen went to Los Angeles in 1967 to compete professionally around town and supplement his income as a music scribe Planet of the Apes (1968), mashed (1970), Carol Burnett performs and Partridge Family.

In 1976, a colleague helped him get on the ABC arrangement Donny & Mariehe was promoted to music director for the third season of the show. He then became a music director on another variety show, in 1979 Mary Taylor Moore H..

As reputation grew, Clausen curated and composed music for the next few years Aircraft II: Sequel (1982), splash (1984), Weird science (1985), Fries Brell's Day Off Day (1986) and dragnet (1987) and rating plot Fame,,,,, Wizards and Warriors and Crime partner.

Clawson and The Simpsons It ended with a sour taste when he was announced in 2017. The collective finger music of the composer, co-owned by Hans Zimmer, replaced him. The move reduced the performance’s music budget by 40%, as live choreography was replaced by synthetic music.

Five-time Anne Award winner sued Disney and its Fox division, claiming age discrimination while attacking Zimmer's company The Simpsons The music “is of inferior quality, depth, range and sound, but similar in style.” He revised the lawsuit in April 2020, asserting that he was also fired for Parkinson’s disease disability.

Fox and The Simpsons Executives countered that they were disappointed with Clausen's 2017 hip-hop-themed plot "The Great Phatsby" citing his unfamiliarity with the new form of music and fears the show might lose its relevance. They also argued that he had begun supporting his son Scott.

The judge dismissed the age discrimination claim but allowed Clausen to file some other lawsuits, including unlawful dismissals, retaliation and unfair business practices. However, he settled in February 2022.

Survivors also include his wife Sally, who married in 1993; another son Kyle; and his stepchildren, Joshua and Emily.