US EditionComposer of X Files Theme, Mark Snow, Dies at 78
CONNECTICUT, USA, JUL 4 – Mark Snow received 15 Emmy nominations and shaped modern TV scoring with his innovative electronic compositions for The X-Files and other major series.
- Mark Snow, the composer best known for The X-Files theme, died at age 78 on Friday, July 4, at his home in Connecticut.
- Snow began his television composing career in the late 1970s with The Rookies and created music for The X-Files after it premiered on Fox in 1993.
- He scored over 200 episodes of The X-Files, its two movies, and dozens of other series including Blue Bloods, working for 12 seasons on the former and 14 on the latter.
- Snow received 15 Emmy nominations in his career, six for The X-Files, and Sean Callery called him a mentor with 'limitless talent and boundless creativity'.
- Snow is survived by his wife, three daughters, and grandchildren, and his death marks the loss of a significant figure in television music composition.
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Los Angeles., Mark Snow, the television music composer who created the iconic theme of The Secret Records X, died at 78, confirmed his agent.
Mark Snow didn't have, as far as we know, a kinship with the Jon Snow of Game of Thrones, but he also didn't need to leave a mark on the history of television far superior to that of the characters in that series. Almost any millennial (and those born before) has tarred his music, grafted into the duramadre like a conspiranoic chip. Few melodies are so Pavlovian: six notes are enough to abduct us. Mark Snow, who died this week, was the composer …
The composer of many Mark Snow series music died at the age of 78.
American composer Mark Snow, the author of the melody for the cult sci-fi series The X-Files, has died at the age of 78. Snow died on Friday at his home in Connecticut, his agent said, without giving further details.
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