Dimitri Tiomkin

Dimitri Tiomkin

Dimitri Zinovievich Tiomkin (May 10, 1894 – November 11, 1979) was a Russian-born American film composer and conductor. Classically trained in Saint Petersburg 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, including Duel in the Sun, Red River, High Noon, The Big Sky, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, and Last Train from Gun Hill. Tiomkin received 22 Academy Award nominations and won four Oscars, three for Best Original Score for High Noon, The High and the Mighty, and The Old Man and the Sea, and one for Best Original Song for "The Ballad of High Noon" from the film High Noon.

Birth and Death Data: Born May 22, 1894 (Kremenchuk), Died November 11, 1979 (London)

Date Range of DAHR Recordings: 1938 - 1953

Roles Represented in DAHR: arranger, composer

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= Recordings were issued from this master. No recordings issued from other masters.

Recordings

Company	Matrix No.	Size	First Recording Date	Title	Primary Performer	Description	Role
Victor	PBS-026291	10-in.	12/11/1938	Tales from the Vienna Woods	Nathaniel Finston ; Miliza Korjus ; MGM Studio Orchestra ; Toscha Seidel	Soprano vocal solo, with orchestra and violin solo	arranger
Victor	PBS-026292	10-in.	12/11/1938	Tales from the Vienna Woods	Nathaniel Finston ; Miliza Korjus ; MGM Studio Orchestra ; Toscha Seidel	Soprano vocal solo, with orchestra and violin solo	arranger
Victor	PBS-026293	10-in.	12/11/1938	There will come a time	Nathaniel Finston ; Miliza Korjus ; MGM Studio Orchestra ; Toscha Seidel	Soprano vocal solo, with orchestra and violin solo	arranger
Victor	PBS-026294	10-in.	12/11/1938	One day when we were young	Nathaniel Finston ; Miliza Korjus ; MGM Studio Orchestra ; Toscha Seidel	Soprano vocal solo, with orchestra and violin solo	arranger
Gramophone	0SB894	10-in.	before 5/21/1940	En strålande vårdag i Wien	Eckert Lundins Orkester ; Benna Lemon-Brundin	Instrumental ensemble, with female vocal solo	arranger
Gramophone	0SB895	10-in.	before 5/21/1940	Wien, du valsernas stad	Eckert Lundins Orkester ; Olle Nygren	Instrumental ensemble, with male vocal solo	arranger
Gramophone	0EA7642	10-in.	5/2/1939	One day when we were young	Webster Booth	Male vocal solo, with orchestra	arranger
Decca	L 7242		6/5/1953	Matareva (The arrival)	Gary Cooper		composer
Decca	L 7243		6/5/1953	Maeva	Gary Cooper		composer
Decca	L 7244		6/5/1953	The reef	Gary Cooper		composer
Decca	L 7245		6/5/1953	Turia the return	Gary Cooper		composer

Citation

Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Tiomkin, Dimitri," accessed April 23, 2024, https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/101053.

Tiomkin, Dimitri. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved April 23, 2024, from https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/101053.

"Tiomkin, Dimitri." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 23 April 2024.