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Occupation
  
Composer

Movies
  
Dying to Dance

Spouse
  
Glynn Daly (m. 1980)

Role
  
Composer

Name
  
Mark Snow


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Full Name
  
Martin Fulterman

Born
  
August 26, 1946 (age 77) (
1946-08-26
)
New York City, New York, United States

Albums
  
The Truth and the Light: Mu, The X Files - Volume O, The Snow Files, Disturbing Behavior, The X‑Files: I Want to B

Composer Mark Snow on creating The X-Files theme music


Mark Snow (born August 26, 1946) is an American composer for film and television, perhaps best known for his work with The X-Files. Among his most famous compositions is the theme music for sci-fi television series The X-Files. The theme reached no. 2 on the UK Singles Chart. Snow also wrote the music for another Chris Carter series, Millennium, and the background music scores for both shows, a total of 12 seasons.

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He is married to Glynn Daly, sister of actors Tim Daly and Tyne Daly.

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Early life and education

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Born Martin Fulterman in New York City, New York on August 26, 1946, Snow grew up in the borough of Brooklyn, graduating from the High School of Music and Art (1964) and, afterwards, the Juilliard School of Music. He was a co-founder of the New York Rock & Roll Ensemble.

Career

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Snow also composed the score for the television movie Dirty Pictures, the series Smallville and One Tree Hill. He has also composed music for video games, such as Syphon Filter: Dark Mirror and Urban Assault (cutscene music only).

Snow has been nominated for 19 Emmy Awards and won 34 ASCAP awards. He was nominated for a César Award for his work on the film Coeurs directed by French director, Alain Resnais. Snow has also worked on Resnais's film Les Herbes folles.

His scores for 2013 include the final episodes of season three of Blue Bloods. There are no further known projects.

Snow stopped composing for Smallville; his final season was season seven, at which point from season eight onward Louis Febre—who had composed additional score on some of Snow's episodes previously—took over as composer.

Themes for TV series

Snow composed main title themes for a number of popular TV shows (and some episode scores+):

  • Smallville (2001-2006) +
  • Ghost Whisperer (2005—2010) +
  • The Lone Gunmen (all episodes; 2001) +
  • Urban Assault (VG) (1998)
  • La Femme Nikita (1997–2001)
  • The Guardian (TV series) (2001-2004)
  • Millennium (all episodes; 1996–99) +
  • Nowhere Man (1995) +.
  • The X-Files (1993–2002, 2016)
  • T.J. Hooker (1982-1987)
  • Hart to Hart (1979–84)
  • The War Widow (1976)

    • Commercially released

    Mark Snow has released the following soundtracks commercially:

  • Skateboard (1978) – LP only
  • The X-Files: The Truth and the Light (Seasons 1–3) [1996]
  • 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea [1997]
  • Disturbing Behavior [1998]
  • The X-Files (film score) [1998]
  • Crazy In Alabama [1999]
  • The Snow Files (various) [Sonic Images, 1999]
  • UFO: The Truth Is Here (rare CD) (2001)
  • The Best of MillenniuM (Season 1–3) [2002] (iTunes exclusive)
  • Helter Skelter [2004]
  • Dark Skies (pilot episode; limited edition, Perseverance Records) [CD released in 2006]
  • Coeurs (A.K.A. Private Fears in Public Places) [BSX Records, 2008]
  • MillenniuM Volume One (Season 1–3; 2-CD set, LaLaLand Records; SOLD OUT) [2008]
  • MillenniuM Volume Two (Season 1–3; 2-CD set, LaLaLand Records; SOLD OUT) [2015]
  • The X-Files: I Want to Believe (film score) [2008]
  • Jake Speed (BuySoundtrax Records; same contents, but remastered, as the old Varèse Sarabande LP) [2009]
  • Conundrum [BSX Records, 2009]
  • Harsh Realm/The Lone Gunmen (selections from both shows, 1CD, limited, La La Land Records) [2010]
  • The X-Files Volume 1 (selections from all seasons, 4-CD set, limited, La La Land Records) [2011]
  • The X-Files Volume 2 (selections from all seasons, 4-CD set, limited, La La Land Records) [2013]
  • The X-Files Volume 3 (selections from all seasons, 4-CD set, limited, La La Land Records) [2016]
  • The X-Files The Event Series (Season 10) (selections from all 6 episodes La La Land Records) [2017]
  • Smallville 2CD (Disc one contains the Louis Febre score from the MP3 download, in non MP3 quality; disc two contains unreleased Febre and Snow material. To be released August 28, 2012 by La La Land Records; limited to 3,000 copies)
  • Vous n'avez encore rien vu (CD release; available overseas only) [2012]

    • Snow released The X Files theme song as a single in March 1996, which reached number 2 in the UK charts.

    Not commercially released

    Other soundtracks unofficially or non-commercially available are:

  • Ernest Saves Christmas [1988] – promotional CD
  • Conundrum (longer than the 2009 commercial release) – internet leak
  • Murder Between Friends (two versions) – internet leak
  • Millennium: Season 1 [1996] – promotional CD
  • The X-Files: Jose Chung's From Outer Space [1996] – internet leak
  • The X-Files Season 5: The Post-Modern Prometheus, Christmas Carol [1997] – internet leak
  • Night Sins (TV mini series) [1997] – "Night Sins" was issued in a limited edition release of 1000 units from BSX Records in 2010.
  • Miracle Landings [1990] –
  • The Dancing Cow [2000] – official free internet download (website no longer up)
  • Pearl Harbor II: Pearlmageddon [2001] – official free internet download (website no longer up).
  • Smallville Original Score TV Soundtrack [2001–2011]

    • References

    Mark Snow Wikipedia
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