Alf Clausen, the esteemed composer known for scoring over 560 episodes of The Simpsons, has passed away at the age of 84 after a long illness. His career spanned 27 years, during which he won two Emmy Awards and received 30 nominations. Clausen was known for composing unique music each week with a large orchestra. His sudden firing in 2017 due to cost-cutting raised issues of ageism and disability discrimination, leading to a lawsuit which he later dropped. He also worked on several well-known films and TV series.
I think that's one of the reasons they've kept me all these years: they were looking for somebody who could score all those different types of music in small clip-form.
In a cost-cutting measure, Fox fired Clausen in 2017, leading the composer to sue the network for ageism and disability discrimination two years later.
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