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Occupation
  
Composer

Children
  
Sylvia Gronostay

Role
  
Composer

Name
  
Walter Gronostay

Years active
  
1929 - 1937 (film)


Born
  
29 July 1906
Berlin, BrandenburgGerman Empire

Died
  
October 10, 1937, Potsdam, Germany

Spouse
  
Eva Schoenfeldt (m. 1930–1937)

Music director
  
Sprengbagger 1010, Olympia Part One: Festival o, Friesennot, The Tunnel, Rubber

Similar People
  
Hans Fritz Beckmann, Leni Riefenstahl, Max Tak, Curtis Bernhardt

Walter Gronostay (1906-1937) : In zehn Minuten (1928)


Walter Gronostay (1906–1937) was a German composer noted for his work on film scores. Gronostay studied under Arnold Schoenberg. 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, but died unexpectadly at the age of 31 before the film was released.

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Selected filmography

  • The Tunnel (1933)
  • The Tunnel (1933, French version)
  • Lady Windermere's Fan (1935)
  • A Night of Change (1935)
  • Friesennot (1935)
  • Rubber (1936)
  • City of Anatol (1936)
  • Street Music (1936)
  • Savoy Hotel 217 (1936)
  • Wells in Flames (1937)
  • Olympia (1938)
  • References

    Walter Gronostay Wikipedia


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