Renowned composer and sound editor, John Strauss has died Monday night at aged 90 after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease. Strauss passed away at a nursing home in West Los Angeles.

The composer is most well-known for his soundtrack for Oscar best picture winner, “Amadeus”. But as noted by Mike Barnes of Reuters, Strauss had a number of production with compositions of songs and soundtracks to his credit in his career in the industry that lasted for almost 50 years.

He was recognized for a number of his works, said Reuters. He won an Emmy award for the sound editing category for “The Amazing Howard Hughes" (1977) and a Grammy trophy for best classical album category for Milos Forman’s Amadeus (1984).

He was the music coordinator for three other Forman Films including “Hair” (1979); “Ragtime” (1981); and Valmont” (1989), a part of the score of which was his composition, noted Reuters.

A detailed profile for Strauss by Reuters shows that most of his mostly recognized compositions include the themes from “Car 54, Where are You?”, featuring Joe. E. Ross and Fred Gwynne that aired on NBC from 1961 to 1963.

He also worked on the scoring for “The Phil Silvers Show” and the “Mikey and Nicky” 1976 film by Elaine May. Strauss also was NBC’s series’ “LA Law” music editor.

The composer and sound editor worked not only on films and popular television shows, but he had also contributed on stage in his early career.

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