Overview

• Clausen died on May 29 at his Los Angeles home after battling progressive supranuclear palsy and Parkinson’s disease
• He served as composer on The Simpsons from 1990 to 2017, scoring over 560 episodes with a live 35-piece orchestra
• Clausen garnered 21 Emmy nominations for the series and won twice for musical episodes in 1997 and 1998
• After his abrupt 2017 dismissal, he filed a 2019 lawsuit against Disney and Fox alleging age and disability discrimination
• Before joining The Simpsons, he composed for Moonlighting, ALF and films including Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and The Naked Gun