Jerome Moross

Emerging from a Brooklyn upbringing in a Jewish family, Moross honed his piano skills and early theatrical compositions before joining Aaron Copland’s Young Composers Group in 1931, a mentorship that opened doors to radio cue work by 1935 and later a Hollywood career in the 1940s. He supplied scores for sixteen films between 1948 and 1969, most famously the Western The Big Country, which earned hi… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources