David Blok
Born: 1888-12-12 in Taganrog, oblast voyska Donskogo, Russian Empire
Died: 1948-10-04
Known For: Sound
Biography
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.
Filmography
1949
- Glorious Path ... (Conductor)
1947
- Private Aleksandr Matrosov ... (Conductor)
- All-Union Parade of Athletes in 1947 ... (Music)
1946
- A Captain at Fifteen ... (Conductor)
- The White Fang ... (Conductor)
1945
- Military Secret ... (Conductor)
- An Elephant and a Rope ... (Conductor)
- Dark Is the Night ... (Original Music Composer)
- Aleksandr Pokryshkin ... (Music)
- Crimean Conference ... (Music)
- The Taras Family ... (Conductor)
- It Happened in the Donbass ... (Conductor)
1944
- Victory in the South ... (Music)
- Liberated France ... (Original Music Composer)
- Kashchey the Immortal ... (Conductor)
- Zoya ... (Conductor)
- Liberation of Vilnius ... (Music)
- Once There Was a Girl ... (Conductor)
1943
- A Family ... (Conductor)
- A Gift From the Motherland ... (Music)
1941
- Концерт ... (Conductor)
- The Humpbacked Horse ... (Conductor)
- Incident on a Volcano ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Disappearance of "Eagle" ... (Original Music Composer)
- In the Rear of the Enemy ... (Original Music Composer)
1940
- A Personal Matter ... (Original Music Composer)
- Yakov Sverdlov ... (Original Music Composer)
1939
- My Apprenticeship ... (Sound)
- The Air Mail ... (Original Music Composer)
1938
- The Childhood of Maxim Gorky ... (Sound)
1937
- A Border on Lock ... (Sound Director)
- Treasure Island ... (Foley)
- In Memory of Sergo Ordzhonikidze ... (Music Editor)
1936
- On the Strangeness of Love ... (Original Music Composer)
1935
- I'll Be Back ... (Original Music Composer)
- Loss of Feeling ... (Sound)
- Shepherd and Czar ... (Sound)
1933
- Torn Boots ... (Original Music Composer)
1932
- Horizon ... (Original Music Composer)
- Diary of a Revolutionist ... (Sound)
- House of the Dead ... (Sound Director)
1931
- Siberian Patrol ... (Conductor)
1930
- St. Jorgen's Day ... (Sound Director)
1928
- The Land of the Lion and Sun ... (Original Music Composer)