Dimitri Tiomkin

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Dimitri Tiomkin with his mother (around 1900)
Dimitri Tiomkin 1937

Dimitri Tiomkin (actually Russian Дмитрий Зиновьевич Тёмкин Dmitri Zinovievich Tjomkin , scientific. Transliteration Dmitry Temkin Zinov'evič * 10. May 1894 in Kremenchug , Poltava Governorate , Russian Empire , now Kremenchuk, Poltava , Ukraine ; † 11. November 1979 in London ) was a Russian - American film composer and conductor . Together with Max Steiner , Miklós Rózsa and Franz Waxman , Tiomkin was one of the most productive and award-winning composers in Hollywood . One of Tiomkin's best-known compositions is High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me) , the theme song of the western classic Twelve Noon .

Life

Dimitri Tiomkin was educated at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory . In 1925 he emigrated to the USA , married the ballet dancer Albertina Rasch (1891–1967) and went with her to Hollywood , where Rasch had received a film role. In 1931 Tiomkin began writing film music; In 1937 he became an American citizen .

Tiomkin wrote film scores for many classic American films , particularly westerns , with great success . Star director Frank Capra hired him particularly often , for example for his films In the Fetters of Shangri-La and Isn't Life Beautiful? and Mr. Smith goes to Washington , the last two with James Stewart . Dimitri Tiomkin wrote four film scores for Alfred Hitchcock : In the Shadow of Doubt (1943), The Stranger on the Train (1951), I Confess (1953), and Murder On Call (1954). Other well-known films with compositions by Tiomkin include the drama Jenny , Tarzan and the Mermaids , the last Tarzan movie with Johnny Weissmuller and the Western Red River and duel in the sun . In 1945 he also contributed the music to the gangster film Jagd auf Dillinger .

Tiomkin wrote perhaps his most famous music for Fred Zinnemann's western classic Twelve O'clock (1952), which earned him an Oscar for the best song ( High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me) ) as well as for the entire film score and also with a Golden Globe Award was rewarded. Even more than other film composers of his time, Tiomkin relied on subtle, restrained compositions , such as at twelve noon . Many compositions for other famous films followed, such as Engelsgesicht (1952), Giganten (1956), Zwei Rechnen ab (1957), The clock has run out (1957), Rio Bravo (1959), Alamo (1960), Stadt ohne Pohl and 55 Days in Beijing . In 1967 he wrote the music for the John-Wayne - Kirk-Douglas -Western The Powerful . The catchy theme song, The Ballad of the War Wagon , sung by Ed Ames , has strong reminiscences of the earlier title composition The Ballad of the Alamo (1960).

In addition to the cinema, Tiomkin also wrote some well-known theme songs for television series, such as A Thousand Miles of Dust ( Rawhide ) (1959), Gunslinger (1961) and The Wild Wild West (1965). In 1959 he published his autobiography under the title Please Don't Hate Me . Dimitri Tiomkin died in London on November 11, 1979 and was buried in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale . Tiomkin is one of the most successful Hollywood composers of all time. He won four Academy Awards and was nominated for another 20. He also received five Golden Globes.

Filmography (selection)

Awards

Oscar

  • 1940: Nomination in the category of best film music for Mr. Smith goes to Washington
  • 1943 : Nomination in the category of best film music for blood revenge
  • 1944: Nomination in the category of best film music for The Obsessed One of Tahiti
  • 1945: Nomination in the category of best film music for The Bridge of San Luis Rey
  • 1950: Nomination in the category Best Film Music for Between Women and Ropes
  • 1953: Awards in the categories of Best Song High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me) and Best Film Music for Noon
  • 1955: Award in the category of best film music and a nomination in the category of
    best song The High and the Mighty (song) , film music and song from the disaster film It is always day
  • 1957: Nominations in the category of Best Song for Alluring Temptation and in the category of Best Film Music for Giants
  • 1958: Nomination for Best Song for Wild is the Wind ( Wild Is the Wind )
  • 1959: Award in the category of best film music for The Old Man and the Sea
  • 1960: Nomination for Best Song Strange Are the Ways of Love for Land Without Law
  • 1961: Nominations in the categories of Best Song and Best Film Music for Alamo ( The Green Leaves of Summer )
  • 1962: Nominations in the category Best Song ( Town Without Pity ) for Stadt ohne Pity and in the category Best Score for Die Kanonen von Navarone
  • 1964: Nominations in the categories of Best Song and Best Film Music for 55 days in Beijing
  • 1965: Nomination in the category of best film music for The Fall of the Roman Empire
  • 1972: Nomination in the category Best Film Music for Tchaikovsky

Golden Globe Award

  • 1952: Nomination in the category of best film music for Stadt in Aufruhr
  • 1953: Award for best film music for twelve o'clock
  • 1955: "Special Award" for his "creative musical contribution to the film"
  • 1957: "Special Award" as "recognition for his film music"
  • 1961: Award for Best Score for Alamo
  • 1962: Awards in the category of best film music for The Guns of Navarone and in the category of best film song for City Without Pity
  • 1965: Awards in the category of best film music for The Fall of the Roman Empire and in the category of best film song for the circus world

Laurel Awards

  • 1959: 2nd place in the Golden Laurel in the Top Score category for The Old Man and the Sea
  • 1961: Golden Laurel in the Top Musical Score category for Alamo
  • 1962: Golden Laurel in the Top Music category and nomination in the Top Song category for City Without Pity
  • 1963: Golden Laurel in the Top Music category
  • 1964: 2nd place in the Golden Laurel in the Top Music and Top Song categories for 55 days in Beijing
  • 1965: 3rd place in the Golden Laurel in the Music Man category

Further

  • His twelve noon film music reached number 10 in the list published by the American Film Institute in September 2005 of the 25 best American film scores over 100 years.

Autobiography

  • Dimitri Tiomkin, Prosper Buranelli: Please Don't Hate Me . Doubleday, Garden City, New York, 1959, 261 pp.

literature

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personal data
SURNAME Tiomkin, Dimitri
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Тёмкин, Дмитрий Зиновьевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-American film composer and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Kremenchuk , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH November 11, 1979
Place of death London