Dimitri Tiomkin | |
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 Dimitri Tiomkin ca. 1930s | |
| Born | Dimitri Zinovievich Tiomkin May 10, 1894 |
| Died | November 11, 1979 (aged 85) London, England |
| Occupation | Composer |
| Years active | 1929–1979 |
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| Website | dimitritiomkin |
Dimitri Zinovievich Tiomkin[a] (May 10, 1894 – November 11, 1979)[1] was a Russian[2][3][4] and American film composer and conductor. Classically trained in Saint Petersburg before the Bolshevik Revolution, he moved to Berlin and then New York City after the Russian Revolution. In 1929, after the stock market crash, he moved to Hollywood, where he became best known for his scores for Western films, including Duel in the Sun, Red River, High Noon, The Big Sky, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Rio Bravo, and Last Train from Gun Hill.
Tiomkin received 22 Academy Award nominations and won four Oscars, three for Best Original Score for High Noon, The High and the Mighty, and The Old Man and the Sea, and one for Best Original Song for "The Ballad of High Noon" from the film High Noon.
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- ^ Colin Larkin, ed. (1992). The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music (First ed.). Guinness Publishing. p. 2505. ISBN 0-85112-939-0.
- ^ Folkart, Burt (November 14, 1979). "Dimitri Tiomkin, 85, Prolific Composer for Films, Dies". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on November 9, 2022. Retrieved November 9, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
Dimitri Tiomkin, the classically trained Russian musician...
- ^ "Dimitri Tiomkin dies in London". Orlando Sentinel. November 13, 1979. Archived from the original on November 9, 2022. Retrieved November 9, 2022.
Tiomkin was born in Russia...
- ^ "Biography: Dimitri Tiomkin". Dimitri Tiomkin: The Official Website. Archived from the original on November 11, 2022. Retrieved November 10, 2022.
Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Franz Waxman, and other European émigré composers also made their mark in Hollywood; however, Tiomkin is the only Russian composer to do so.