Brooklyn-born composer and orchestrator, who graduated from New York University at the age of eighteen. A child prodigy,...
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🎂 Jerome Moross - Age, Bio, Faces and Birthday

When Jerome Moross die, Jerome Moross was 70 years old.

Popular As	Jerome Moross
Occupation	Music Department
Age	70 years old
Zodiac Sign	Leo
Born	August 1, 1913 (Brooklyn, New York, USA)
Birthday	August 1
Town/City	Brooklyn, New York, USA
Nationality	USA

🌙 Zodiac

Jerome Moross’s zodiac sign is Leo. According to astrologers, people born under the sign of Leo are natural born leaders. They are dramatic, creative, self-confident, dominant and extremely difficult to resist, able to achieve anything they want to in any area of life they commit to. There is a specific strength to a Leo and their "king of the jungle" status. Leo often has many friends for they are generous and loyal. Self-confident and attractive, this is a Sun sign capable of uniting different groups of people and leading them as one towards a shared cause, and their healthy sense of humor makes collaboration with other people even easier.

🌙 Chinese Zodiac Signs

Jerome Moross was born in the Year of the Ox. Another of the powerful Chinese Zodiac signs, the Ox is steadfast, solid, a goal-oriented leader, detail-oriented, hard-working, stubborn, serious and introverted but can feel lonely and insecure. Takes comfort in friends and family and is a reliable, protective and strong companion. Compatible with Snake or Rooster.

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.

His first serious work ('Paeans') was performed in public when he was seventeen, conducted by the great Bernard Herrmann. Other orchestral compositions included 'Those Everlasting Blues' (1932) and 'Beguine' (1934), notable for his usage of traditional American folk idioms.

He wrote for many Broadway shows from 1935, beginning with 'Parade'. Moross also composed five ballets, of which 'Frankie and Johnny' (1938,for dancer Ruth Page) and 'The Golden Apple' (1954) were the most successful.

The latter won the Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Musical, 1953-4. Moross worked in Hollywood from 1940 as composer/arranger, often in collaboration with Aaron Copland (eg. Our Town (1940)), Hugo Friedhofer and Franz Waxman.

His own scores as film composer include The Proud Rebel (1958), The War Lord (1965) and Rachel, Rachel (1968). He was nominated for an Academy Award for his lush, sweeping score of The Big Country (1958).

In addition to his film work, he was also active in composing music for television, his best work in the western series Gunsmoke (1955) and Wagon Train (1957). He created eight pieces of chamber music, 1964-78, and, his final work, the one-act opera 'Sorry, Wrong Number', based on Lucille Fletcher's famous thriller.

Jerome Moross received Guggenheim Fellowships in 1947 and 1948.