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Edmund Meisel (14 August 1894 – 14 November 1930) was an Austrian-born composer. He wrote the score to Walter Ruttmann's Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis (1927), The Battleship Potemkin (1925), and other films of Sergei Eisenstein. Meisel was one of the more important and pioneering figures in film music.
Dec 20, 2017 · In the mid-1920s, the Viennese composer Edmund Meisel burst onto the film scene with his own manifesto, in which he emphatically proclaimed that he had found a new style of film music with an unprecedented connection to musical Modernism.
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Oct 17, 2017 · Edmund Meisel. (Re)-enter Edmund Meisel, who was born in Vienna but moved to Berlin as a child. His biography is spottily recorded, but he finally found a footing in Erwin Piscator’s theatre. This led to film work and the commission to score Potemkin for its German release.
Edmund Meisel (* 14. August 1894 in Wien, Österreich-Ungarn; † 14. November 1930 in Berlin) war ein deutscher Dirigent, Komponist und Violinist.
Jun 11, 2015 · Extrait du film Berlin symphonie d'une grande ville, réalisé par Walter Ruttmann et mis en musique par Edmund Meisel. Cette œuvre sera projetée lors du ciné-concert dédié le vendredi 2 ...
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Dec 20, 2017 · These qualities made Meisel the most famous, but also controversial, film music composer. From 1924 to 1930, he produced fourteen stage music works and ten scores for both silent and sound films...
View PDF. My interest in this essay will be focused on the studying of an original score written near to the end of the silent period: Edmund Meisel’s score for the first release in Berlin of Battleship Potemkin (1926) and abrief commentary on a second score.
