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David Blok

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Date of birth
Dec 12, 1888
Date of death
Oct 4, 1948(aged 59)
Place of birth

David Blok

Biography of David Blok:

Soviet composer, sound engineer and conductor. Organizer (1941) and first head of the State Orchestra of the USSR Ministry of Cinematography. Honored Artist of the Tajik SSR (1940). He began his creative career in 1905 as a conductor of an orchestra accompanying silent films. Studied at the Rostov Conservatory (1913-1918). During the silent film period, he led orchestras in major cinemas, scoring silent films and composing music for them. Since 1930, he began working in sound films (in 1931-1947 - sound designer and sound engineer). Since 1938, he was also a conductor at the Soyuzdetfilm film studio, in 1948 - Mosfilm. Conducted the premiere of the Second Suite by S.S. Prokofiev from Romeo and Juliet. David Blok wrote and edited music for more than 200 films. He was a member of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee. He was buried at the Vostryakovsky cemetery.

Additional credits for David Blok:

Glorious Path(1949)(Conductor)
All-Union Parade of Athletes in 1947(1947)(Music)
Private Aleksandr Matrosov(1947)(Conductor)
The White Fang(1946)(Conductor)
An Elephant and a Rope(1945)(Conductor)
The Taras Family(1945)(Conductor)
Crimean Conference(1945)(Music)
It Happened in the Donbass(1945)(Conductor)
A Captain at Fifteen(1945)(Conductor)
Dark Is the Night(1945)(Original Music Composer)
Military Secret(1945)(Conductor)
Aleksandr Pokryshkin(1945)(Music)
Once There Was a Girl(1944)(Conductor)
Zoya(1944)(Conductor)
Victory in the South(1944)(Music)
Liberation of Vilnius(1944)(Music)
Kashchey the Immortal(1944)(Conductor)
Liberated France(1944)(Original Music Composer)
A Family(1943)(Conductor)
A Gift From the Motherland(1943)(Music)
The Humpbacked Horse(1941)(Conductor)
In the Rear of the Enemy(1941)(Original Music Composer)
Incident on a Volcano(1941)(Original Music Composer)
Концерт(1941)(Conductor)
The Disappearance of "Eagle"(1941)(Original Music Composer)
Yakov Sverdlov(1940)(Original Music Composer)
Личное дело(1940)(Original Music Composer)
The Air Mail(1939)(Original Music Composer)
My Apprenticeship(1939)(Sound)
The Childhood of Maxim Gorky(1938)(Sound)
In Memory of Sergo Ordzhonikidze(1937)(Music Editor)
Treasure Island(1937)(Foley)
A Border on Lock(1937)(Sound Director)
On the Strangeness of Love(1936)(Original Music Composer)
Loss of Feeling(1935)(Sound)
Shepherd and Czar(1935)(Sound)
I'll Be Back(1935)(Original Music Composer)
Torn Boots(1933)(Original Music Composer)
Horizon(1932)(Original Music Composer)
House of the Dead(1932)(Sound Director)
Diary of a Revolutionist(1932)(Sound)
Siberian Patrol(1931)(Conductor)
St. Jorgen's Day(1930)(Sound Director)
The Land of the Lion and Sun(1928)(Original Music Composer)

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