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Mark Snow, Composer Who Haunted Us With ‘X-Files’ Theme Song, Dead at 78

Mark Snow, a 15-time Emmy nominee, scored over 200 episodes of 'X-Files' and composed for 'Ghost Whisperer,' 'Smallville,' and 'Blue Bloods.'

Mark Snow, the acclaimed television composer best known for helming the popular theme song to the 1990s sci-fi hit The X-Files, died on Friday, a representative confirmed to Rolling Stone. Two of his Emmy nominations were for his work on the popular series Ghost Whisperer, and several others for miniseries and specials like An American Story, Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, and Children of the Dust. As Variety reports, in a 2016 Television Academy interview, Snow said “it took quite a few years to get to where I felt comfortable with the electronics, trying to make something that approximated melodic music.

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