Biography
Vincent Anthony Guaraldi was an American jazz pianist who composed music for animated television adaptations of the Peanuts comic strip. His compositions for this series included their signature melody "Linus and Lucy" and the holiday standard "Christmas Time Is Here". Guaraldi also performed on piano as a member of Cal Tjader's 1950s ensembles and for his own solo career. Guaraldi's 1962 composition "Cast Your Fate to the Wind" became a radio hit and won a Grammy Award in 1963 for Best Original Jazz Composition. He died of a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm on February 6, 1976, at age 47, moments after concluding the first half of a nightclub performance in Menlo Park, California.
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Awards & recognition
- Grammy Award — Best Original Jazz Composition
- Academy Award — Best Original Song Score · 1971 · nominated
Filmography8 titles
A Charlie Brown Christmas
It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving
A Boy Named Charlie Brown
Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown
It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown
Charlie Brown's Christmas Tales
It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown