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Jerome Moross (August 1, 1913 – July 25, 1983) was an American composer best known for his music for film and television. He also composed works for symphony orchestras, chamber ensembles, soloists and musical theater, as well as orchestrating scores for other composers.
JEROME MOROSS forever changed the sound of Western movies with his classic, Oscar-nominated score for The Big Country in 1958. But he was also an innovator in the musical theater, in ballet and in other musical realms.
JEROME MOROSS’s career encompasses four spheres, Broadway, Hollywood, the Dance world and the concert hall. He is best known to some audiences as the composer of the Academy Award-nominated score for William Wyler’s epic western, The Big Country (1958).
Jerome Moross. Music Department: The Big Country. Brooklyn-born composer and orchestrator, who graduated from New York University at the age of eighteen. A child prodigy, he was already an accomplished pianist at the age of five and began composing music three years later.
Jul 27, 1983 · Jerome Moross, a composer who wrote symphonic works and scores for Broadway and films, died Monday in Miami of congestive heart failure and a stroke. He was 69 years old.
JEROME MOROSS’s career encompasses four spheres, Broadway, Hollywood, the Dance world and the concert hall. He is best known to some audiences as the composer of the Academy Award-nominated score for William Wyler’s epic western, The Big Country (1958).
Jerome Moross (1 August 1913, New York City – 25 July 1983, Miami, Fl.) was an American-born composer. During his teenage years, Moross met Bernard Herrmann. The two composers became friends, and their friendship lasted until Herrmann's death.
