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David Blok

David Blok

1888–1948 · Taganrog, oblast voyska Donskogo, Russian Empire

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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.

Sound 43

1940s

  1. 1949

    Glorious Path

    Conductor

  2. 1947

    All-Union Parade of Athletes in 1947

    Music

  3. Private Aleksandr Matrosov

    Conductor

  4. 1946

    The White Fang

    Conductor

  5. A Captain at Fifteen

    Conductor

  6. 1945

    An Elephant and a Rope

    Conductor

  7. The Taras Family

    Conductor

  8. Crimean Conference

    Music

  9. It Happened in the Donbass

    Conductor

  10. Dark Is the Night

    Original Music Composer

  11. Military Secret

    Conductor

  12. Aleksandr Pokryshkin

    Music

  13. 1944

    Once There Was a Girl

    Conductor

  14. Zoya

    Conductor

  15. Victory in the South

    Music

  16. Liberation of Vilnius

    Music

  17. Kashchey the Immortal

    Conductor

    71

  18. Liberated France

    Original Music Composer

  19. 1943

    A Family

    Conductor

  20. A Gift From the Motherland

    Music

  21. 1941

    The Humpbacked Horse

    Conductor

    69

  22. In the Rear of the Enemy

    Original Music Composer

  23. Incident on a Volcano

    Original Music Composer

  24. Концерт

    Conductor

  25. The Disappearance of "Eagle"

    Original Music Composer

  26. 1940

    Yakov Sverdlov

    Original Music Composer

  27. A Personal Matter

    Original Music Composer

1930s

  1. 1939

    The Air Mail

    Original Music Composer

  2. My Apprenticeship

    Sound

  3. 1938

    The Childhood of Maxim Gorky

    Sound

  4. 1937

    Treasure Island

    Foley, Sound

  5. A Border on Lock

    Sound Director

  6. 1936

    On the Strangeness of Love

    Original Music Composer

  7. 1935

    Loss of Feeling

    Sound

  8. Shepherd and Czar

    Sound

  9. I'll Be Back

    Original Music Composer

  10. 1933

    Torn Boots

    Original Music Composer

  11. 1932

    Horizon

    Original Music Composer

  12. House of the Dead

    Sound Director

  13. Diary of a Revolutionist

    Sound

  14. 1931

    Siberian Patrol

    Conductor

  15. 1930

    St. Jorgen's Day

    Sound Director

1920s

  1. 1928

    The Land of the Lion and Sun

    Original Music Composer