Kenneth Wannberg, composer and Emmy-winning music editor who worked on nearly half of all John Williams’ films dating back to the late 1960s, died Jan.
27 at his home in Florence, Oregon.
He was 91.Wannberg was best known as Williams’ music editor, working closely with the composer on more than 50 of his films.
He assisted Williams throughout the scoring process, from providing detailed descriptions of sequences to be scored to more technical aspects such trimming or modifying music during the last stages of post-production.He music-edited the first six “Star Wars” films, the first three “Indiana Jones” films and such other landmark Williams scores as “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” “Jurassic Park,” “Schindler’s List” and “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.”During his 50-year career in films, Wannberg worked with many other composers including Bernard Herrmann (“Journey to the Center of the Earth”), Jerry Goldsmith (“The Mephisto Waltz”), Michael Convertino
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