Edmund Meisel, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Edmund Meisel

Austrian composer

Date of Birth: 14-Aug-1894

Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria

Date of Death: 14-Nov-1930

Profession: composer, conductor, film score composer

Nationality: Austria, Germany

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Edmund Meisel (14 August 1894 – 14 November 1930) was an Austrian-born composer.
He wrote the score to Walter Ruttmann's Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis (1927), The Battleship Potemkin (1925), and other films of Sergei Eisenstein.
Meisel was one of the more important and pioneering figures in film music.
Much of his work and the evidence of his significance was lost for more than fifty years.