Dimitri Tiomkin

Lecture 7 - MUSIC246

• Born in Russia
• Played piano in Russian silent movie theatres
• 1925 - USA: leaves Russia for the US, worked in vaudeville.
• Begins working in Hollywood in the 1930s, but career as a concert pianist is over due to an arm injury.
• Important films include: Lost Horizon (1937), It’s a Wonderful LIfe (1946) (director for both movies ^ Frank Capra)