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Dimitri Tiomkin
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Ukrainian and American composer
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Dimitri Tiomkin was a pianist, composer, conductor, and film score composer who worked in Saint Petersburg and Hollywood. Born in Kremenchuk, he held citizenship in the United States, the Russian Empire, and the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. He studied at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory under Felix Blumenfeld, Isabelle Vengerova, Alexander Glazunov, and Ferruccio Busoni. His professional career began in 1929.
Tiomkin received the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score and the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song. He was also an Officer of the Legion of Honour and a recipient of the Order of Isabella the Catholic. Additionally, he received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Original Score and the Academy Award for Best Original Song. He was married to Albertina Rasch.
Tiomkin died in London in 1979 from a hip fracture. He is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 2
Top works
- Dimitri Tiomkin Anthology
- Please don't hate me
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Film & TV
Sound · Kremenchug, Poltava governorate, Russian Empire
Dimitri Zinovievich Tiomkin (May 10, 1894 – November 11, 1979) was a Russian-born American film composer and conductor. Classically trained in St. Petersburg, Russia before the Bolshevik Revolution, he moved to Berlin and then New York City after the Russian Revolution. In 1929, after the stock market crash, he moved to Hollywood, where he became best known for his scores for Western films,…
Known for
- Art Ford's Greenwich Village Party — Self1957
- Tonight Starring Jack Paar — Self1957
- The Oscars — Self1953
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Ukraine
- Active from
- 1894
- Active to
- 1979
Discography
- Friendly Persuasion: Original Music From the Soundtrack of the Motion Picture1956
- Wild Is the Wind1957
- The Old Man and the Sea1958
- The Alamo1960
- The Unforgiven (Original Music From The Motion Picture Sound Track)1960
- The Guns of Navarone1961
- Circus World1964
- The Film Music of Dimitri Tiomkin1988
- 55 Days at Peking1989
- Giant1989
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 28,788
- Total plays
- 222,047
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Dimitri Zinovievich Tiomkin (Russian: Дмитрий Зиновьевич Тёмкин, Dmitrij Zinov'evič Tëmkin, somtimes translated as Dmitri Tiomkin) (May 10, 1894 – November 11, 1979) was a film composer and conductor. Along with Max Steiner, Miklós Rózsa and Franz Waxman, Tiomkin was one of the most productive and decorated film music writers of Hollywood. Tiomkin was born in Kremenchug, Ukraine and educated at the St. Petersburg Conservatory in Russia. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Dimitri+Tiomkin">Read m
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- THE SEVENTH DATA RELEASE OF THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY
· 2009 · cited 4,693x
- Global incidence, prevalence, years lived with disability (YLDs), disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs), and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 371 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021
· 2024 · cited 4,533x
- Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)
· 2016 · cited 4,417x
- The repertoire of mutational signatures in human cancer
· 2020 · cited 3,337x
- Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance 1990–2021: a systematic analysis with forecasts to 2050
· 2024 · cited 3,292x
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Dimitri
- Family name
- Temkin
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Kremenchuk
- Place of death
- London
- Occupation
- music arranger
- Educated at
- Saint Petersburg Conservatory
- Languages spoken
- Ukrainian
- Student of
- Egon Petri
- Field of work
- film score
- Genre
- film score
- Instrument
- piano
- Official website
- dimitritiomkin.com
- Image
- Dimitri Tiomkin 1957.JPG
- Work location
- United States
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- date of birth
- 1899-05-10
- date of death
- 1979-11-11
- place of burial
- Forest Lawn Memorial Park
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Original Song
- cause of death
- hip fracture
- name in native language
- Дмитрий Зиновьевич Тёмкин
- Commons category
- Dimitri Tiomkin
- start of work period
- 1929-00-00
- related category
- Category:Films scored by Dimitri Tiomkin
- copyright representative
- American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
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