# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-gronostay
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:36:47.813Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walter-gronostay"
name: "Walter Gronostay"
slug: "walter-gronostay"
description: "Walter Gronostay (1906–1937) was a German composer noted for his work on film scores. Gronostay studied under Arnold Schoenberg. 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, but died unexpectedly at the age of 31 before the film was released."
tagline: "German composer (1906-1937)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1906-07-29"
deathDate: "1937-10-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.5813953488372093
  historical:           7.669942666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0343123/"
    handle:    "nm0343123"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "والتر جرونوستاى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Walter Gronostay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Gronostay"
    title: "Walter Gronostay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "والتر گرونوستای"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Gronostay"
    title: "Walter Gronostay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Гроностай, Вальтер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Walter Gronostay"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump