Walter Gronostay (1906–1937) was a German composer noted for his work on film scores. Gronostay studied under Arnold Schoenberg. ^[1] 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, ^[2] but died unexpectedly at the age of 31 before the film was released.

Selected filmography

• Ripening Youth (1933)
• The Tunnel (1933)
• The Tunnel (1933, French version)
• Lady Windermere's Fan (1935)
• A Night of Change (1935)
• Frisians in Peril (1935)
• Rubber (1936)
• City of Anatol (1936)
• The Last Four on Santa Cruz (1936)
• Street Music (1936)
• Savoy Hotel 217 (1936)
• Wells in Flames (1937)
• The Chief Witness (1937)
• Olympia (1938)

References

Bibliography

• Mera, Miguel & Burnand, David. European Film Music. Ashgate Publishing, 2006.
• Rother, Rainer. Leni Riefenstahl: The Seduction of Genius. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2003.

External links

• Walter Gronostay at IMDb

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