Walter Gronostay, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Walter Gronostay

German composer

Date of Birth: 29-Jul-1906

Place of Birth: Berlin

Date of Death: 10-Oct-1937

Profession: composer, film score composer

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Leo

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 unexpectedly at the age of 31 before the film was released.