Edmund Meisel

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Edmund Meisel was born in Vienna in 1894 and worked in Berlin as a violinist and conductor. In 1926 he wrote, in a short time, the music for the German premiere of Eisenstein's Panzerkreuzer Potemkin. He followed the rapid montage with hard rhythms, repeated motifs and dissonances, like a machine that keeps going faster. The audience reacted fiercely, and the music contributed to the political uproar around the film. For Walter Ruttmann's Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Großstadt (1927) he made a score full of city noises, train rhythms and jazz. He then also worked on Eisenstein's Oktjabr (1928). Meisel died in 1930, aged 36, just as sound film broke through.

Listening

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  Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Grosstadt: Act I · Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin & Frank Strobel, 1927
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  Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Grosstadt: Act III · Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin & Frank Strobel, 1927
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  Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Grosstadt: Act V · Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin & Frank Strobel, 1927

Discography

Studio albums

• 1995Battleship Potemkin (soundtrack)
• 2012Berlin - Die Sinfonie der Großstadt (soundtrack)

Other work

• 1926Panzerkreuzer Potemkin (Duitse versie)
• 1928Oktjabr

In School of Rock

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• Film Music Map^NL Map
• The Dream Factory: Film Reel 1^NL Reader

Mentioned in other articles

• Symphonic silent film scores (Hollywood and Weimar) GenreIn Berlin in 1926, Edmund Meisel wrote harsh, rhythmic music for Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin, which followed the editing shot by shot.

See also

• Symphonic silent film scores (Hollywood and Weimar)