COMPOSER

Alf Clausen

1941 - 2025

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Alf Faye Heiberg Clausen (March 28, 1941 – May 29, 2025) was an American film and television composer. He is best known for his work scoring many episodes of The Simpsons, for which he was the sole composer between 1990 and 2017. Clausen scored or orchestrated music for more than 30 films and television shows, including Moonlighting, The Naked Gun, ALF and Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Clausen received an Honorary Doctorate of Music from Berklee College of Music in 1996. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alf Clausen is the 1,146th most popular composer (up from 1,170th in 2019), the 7,028th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,894th in 2019) and the 66th most popular American Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Alf Clausen ranks 1,146 out of 1,451. Before him are Manolis Kalomiris, Percy Grainger, Nikolaos Mantzaros, Ludvig Norman, Lukas Foss, and Zygmunt Noskowski. After him are Ján Cikker, Eddie Meduza, Kārlis Baumanis, Hauschka, John Corigliano, and Ernest Reyer.

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Among people born in 1941, Alf Clausen ranks 398. Before him are Sahar Khalifeh, Zlatko Škorić, Gérard Corbiau, Wilfrid Napier, Markus Lüpertz, and Christoph Höhne. After him are Peter Bonetti, Ole Ritter, Francisco Jara, Kazuo Imanishi, John Steel, and Laisenia Qarase. Among people deceased in 2025, Alf Clausen ranks 194. Before him are Cristóbal Ortega, Djamel Menad, Johnny Tillotson, Gailard Sartain, Kim Sae-ron, and Ruth Buzzi. After him are Léon Krier, Peter McParland, Julius Chan, Florence Delay, Bernd Cullmann, and Ileana Silai.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Alf Clausen ranks 7,030 out of 20,380. Before him are Elbert Hubbard (1856), Harold Brown (1927), Lhasa de Sela (1972), Edgar Adams (1868), Christopher Judge (1964), and Maura Healey (1971). After him are Robert T. Bakker (1945), Eugene Burton Ely (1886), Joel Stebbins (1878), Cecilia Beaux (1855), Donald Wuerl (1940), and Sidney Coleman (1937).

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Among COMPOSERS In United States

Among composers born in United States, Alf Clausen ranks 66. Before him are Ferde Grofé (1892), Walter Piston (1894), John Ottman (1964), Peter H. Gilmore (1958), Harry Partch (1901), and W. C. Handy (1873). After him are John Corigliano (1938), Leonard Rosenman (1924), Carter Burwell (1954), Michael Giacchino (1967), Morton Gould (1913), and Gunther Schuller (1925).

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