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Emmy Award-Winning Composer Alf Clausen, Known for 27 Years of Music for ‘The Simpsons,’ Passes Away at 84

    Alf Clausen, Emmy-winning composer who wrote music for 'The Simpsons' for 27 years, dies at 84
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    LOS ANGELES – Alf Clausen, the celebrated Emmy-winning composer known for crafting the musical backdrop to the antics of “The Simpsons” over 27 years, has passed away.

    His daughter, Kaarin Clausen, confirmed to The Associated Press that Alf Clausen died Thursday at his Los Angeles home after a lengthy battle with Parkinson’s Disease. He was 84.

    Clausen, who also composed music for TV shows like “Moonlighting” and “Alf” (humorously noting “no relation” to his name), received 30 Emmy nominations, including 21 for “The Simpsons,” and secured two wins.

    Al Jean, an early “Simpsons” writer who was one of the key creative figures on the show in the 1990s, said in a post on X Friday that “Clausen was an incredibly talented man who did so much for The Simpsons.”

    While Danny Elfman wrote the show’s theme song, Clausen joined the Fox animated series created by Matt Groening in 1990 and provided essentially all of its music until 2017, composing nearly 600 scores and conducting the 35-piece orchestra that played it in the studio.

    His colleagues said his music was a key component of the show’s comedy, but Clausen believed the best way to back up the gags of Homer, Marge Bart and Lisa was by making the music as straight as possible.

    “This is a dream job for a composer,” Clausen told Variety, which first reported his death, in 1998. “Matt Groening said to me very early on, ‘We’re not a cartoon. We’re a drama where the characters are drawn. I want you to score it like a drama.’ I score the emotions of the characters as opposed to specific action hits on the screen.”

    Groening, in a 1996 interview, called him “one of the unacknowledged treasures of the show.”

    Clausen was born in Minneapolis and raised in Jamestown, North Dakota. He graduated from the Berklee College of Music in 1966, and moved to Los Angeles seeking a career in music.

    In the 1970s he was a musical director on several TV variety shows including “Donny & Marie.”

    Clausen worked as an orchestrator for composer Lee Holdridge in his scores for 1980s films including “Splash” and “The Beastmaster.”

    It was Holdridge who first got the composing job on “Moonlighting,” the late-80s ABC rom-com detective series starring Bruce Willis and Cybil Shepherd, but he handed the gig off to Clausen, who would get six Emmy nominations for his music on it.

    Clausen won his Emmys for “The Simpsons” in 1997 and 1998 and also won five Annie Awards, which honor work in animation in film and television.

    He was fired from “The Simpsons” in a cost-cutting move in 2017, to the outrage of his collaborators and fans. He sued over his dismissal.

    Clausen is survived by his wife Sally, children Kaarin, Scott and Kyle, stepchildren Josh and Emily, and 11 grandchildren.

    Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.

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