David Blok
- Known for
- Sound
- Born
- December 12, 1888
- Died
- October 4, 1948 (aged 59)
- Birthplace
- Taganrog, oblast voyska Donskogo, Russian Empire
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.
Known For
Filmography
Glorious Path
Movie · Conductor
All-Union Parade of Athletes in 1947
Movie · Music
Private Aleksandr Matrosov
Movie · Conductor
The White Fang
Movie · Conductor
A Captain at Fifteen
Movie · Conductor
Crimean Conference
Movie · Music
Aleksandr Pokryshkin
Movie · Music
It Happened in the Donbass
Movie · Conductor
An Elephant and a Rope
Movie · Conductor
Military Secret
Movie · Conductor
Dark Is the Night
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Taras Family
Movie · Conductor
Victory in the South
Movie · Music
Liberation of Vilnius
Movie · Music
Kashchey the Immortal
Movie · Conductor
Zoya
Movie · Conductor
Liberated France
Movie · Original Music Composer
Once There Was a Girl
Movie · Conductor
A Gift From the Motherland
Movie · Music
A Family
Movie · Conductor
Концерт
Movie · Conductor
The Disappearance of "Eagle"
Movie · Original Music Composer
In the Rear of the Enemy
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Humpbacked Horse
Movie · Conductor
Incident on a Volcano
Movie · Original Music Composer
Yakov Sverdlov
Movie · Original Music Composer
A Personal Matter
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Air Mail
Movie · Original Music Composer
My Apprenticeship
Movie · Sound
The Childhood of Maxim Gorky
Movie · Sound
In Memory of Sergo Ordzhonikidze
Movie · Music Editor
A Border on Lock
Movie · Sound Director
Treasure Island
Movie · Foley, Sound
On the Strangeness of Love
Movie · Original Music Composer
I'll Be Back
Movie · Original Music Composer
Loss of Feeling
Movie · Sound
Shepherd and Czar
Movie · Sound
Torn Boots
Movie · Original Music Composer
Horizon
Movie · Original Music Composer
House of the Dead
Movie · Sound Director
Diary of a Revolutionist
Movie · Sound
Siberian Patrol
Movie · Conductor
St. Jorgen's Day
Movie · Sound Director
The Land of the Lion and Sun
Movie · Original Music Composer