Composer Alf Clausen, known for his Emmy Award-winning work on the long-running animated comedy "The Simpsons," died Thursday, May 29, at the age of 84, Variety first reported.

Clausen's daughter, Kaarin Clausen, told the Associated Press that he had been struggling with Parkinson's disease for about a decade.

Clausen was born in Minneapolis but raised in Jamestown, where he attended high school, according to a 2012 profile from The Jamestown Sun . He studied music theory at North Dakota State University and later earned a degree in arranging composition from Berklee College of Music in Boston.

The Jamestown High School graduate played French horn and piano and sang in the choir. He called his musical experience in Jamestown "invaluable."

"We can make people smile and people cry," C

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