Walter Gronostay

Walter Gronostay (1906–1937) was a German composer noted for his work on film scores. Gronostay studied under Arnold Schoenberg.^[1] 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,^[2] but died unexpectedly at the age of 31 before the film was released.

Walter Gronostay
Born	29 July 1906 Berlin, Brandenburg German Empire
Died	10 October 1937 (1937-10-11) (aged 31) Potsdam, Brandenburg Germany
Occupation	Composer
Years active	1929 - 1937 (film)

Selected filmography

• Ripening Youth (1933)
• The Tunnel (1933)
• The Tunnel (1933, French version)
• Lady Windermere's Fan (1935)
• A Night of Change (1935)
• Frisians in Peril (1935)
• Rubber (1936)
• City of Anatol (1936)
• The Last Four on Santa Cruz (1936)
• Street Music (1936)
• Savoy Hotel 217 (1936)
• Wells in Flames (1937)
• The Chief Witness (1937)
• Olympia (1938)