Samuel Pokrass
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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Samuel Yakovlevich Pokrass (Template:Langx; 1894, in Kiev – June 15, 1939, in New York City) was a Soviet composer of Russian and Jewish origin. In 1920, during the Russian Civil War, he and the poet P. Grigoryev wrote fighting songs for the Red Army, including "White Army, Black Baron". That song's melody was used for the song "Die Arbeiter von Wien" ("The Workers of Vienna") in Red Vienna.
Pokrass laterScript error: No such module "Unsubst". emigrated to the United States, where he worked as a composer in Hollywood from 1934 to 1939, and was known primarily for the 1939 musical film The Three Musketeers.
References
- A. V. Shilov, Из истории первых советских песен (1917–24), М., 1963
- A. Sokhor, Как начиналась советская музыка, "МЖ", 1967, No 2.
External links
- Template:Trim/ Samuel Pokrass at IMDbTemplate:EditAtWikidataScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
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- 1894 births
- 1939 deaths
- Musicians from Kyiv
- People from Kievsky Uyezd
- Jewish composers
- Soviet composers
- Soviet male composers
- People of the Russian Civil War
- Soviet emigrants to the United States
- American male film score composers
- Jews from the Russian Empire
- Soviet Jews
- 20th-century American composers