Snow, 78, died Friday, July 4 at his home in Connecticut, Variety reports. The composer, who enjoyed a long career in TV and film, once recounted how the “X-Files” theme came to be in an interview for the Television Academy Foundation.

Files” theme into an unlikely chart hit in the 1990s, died Friday at his home in Connecticut. He was 78. A 15-time Emmy nominee, he not only scored more than 200 episodes of Chris Carter’s spooky Fox series (and both its big-screen incarnations,

In addition to The X Files main theme, which was released as a single in 1996 and charted internationally, Snow composed the music for over 200 episodes and both feature films of the hit science fiction show about a pair of paranormal FIB investigators.