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Dimitri Tiomkin

1894 - 1979

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Dimitri Zinovievich Tiomkin (May 10, 1894 – November 11, 1979) was a Russian and 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, Rio Bravo, 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Dimitri Tiomkin is the 304th most popular composer (down from 262nd in 2019), the 148th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 137th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Ukrainian Composer.

Dimitri Tiomkin is most famous for composing the score for "High Noon" in 1952.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Dimitri Tiomkin ranks 304 out of 1,451. Before him are Louis-Claude Daquin, Johann Jakob Froberger, Francesco Geminiani, Martin Agricola, Johann Baptist Wanhal, and Stephen Schwartz. After him are Gustave Charpentier, Pierre De Geyter, Max Steiner, Niccolò Jommelli, Gustav Leonhardt, and Antonio Lotti.

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Among people born in 1894, Dimitri Tiomkin ranks 50. Before him are Walter Brennan, Sergey Ilyushin, Ásgeir Ásgeirsson, Kōnosuke Matsushita, Norman Rockwell, and Paul Blobel. After him are Bessie Smith, Leo Kanner, Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger, Anton Mussert, Percy Spencer, and Ernst Lindemann. Among people deceased in 1979, Dimitri Tiomkin ranks 44. Before him are Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Rachele Mussolini, Giulio Natta, Edvard Kardelj, Wilfred Bion, and Mamie Eisenhower. After him are Otto Robert Frisch, Jean-Marie Villot, Alfredo Ottaviani, Peggy Guggenheim, Louis Chiron, and Nicholas Ray.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Dimitri Tiomkin ranks 148 out of 1,365. Before him are Ephraim Katzir (1916), Semion Mogilevich (1946), Jan Łukasiewicz (1878), Euphrosyne of Kiev (1130), Tatyana Afanasyeva (1876), and Alfred Redl (1864). After him are Mikhail Kirponos (1892), Svetlana Gerasimenko (1945), Alexander Georg von Bunge (1803), Stanisław Żółkiewski (1547), Juliusz Słowacki (1809), and Vsevolod I of Kiev (1030).

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Among COMPOSERS In Ukraine

Among composers born in Ukraine, Dimitri Tiomkin ranks 7. Before him are Sergei Prokofiev (1891), Stefania Turkewich (1898), Karol Szymanowski (1882), Reinhold Glière (1874), Dmitry Bortniansky (1751), and Valentyn Sylvestrov (1937). After him are Wojciech Kilar (1932), Mykola Lysenko (1842), Boris Lyatoshinsky (1894), Igor Markevitch (1912), Franz Doppler (1821), and Sergei Bortkiewicz (1877).

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