Edmund Meisel

Edmund Meisel

Austrian composer (1894–1930)

Edmund Meisel 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.

Filmography in the catalog

Credited on 4 films (1925–1929) — matched by name in the Creator or Credits field.

Year ▲ Title CreatorLengthFormatColorSound
1925 Battleship Potemkin Goskino: Publisher | Mosfilm: Distributor 66 16mm B&W sound
1925 Battleship Potemkin. Sergei Eisenstein 74 min 16mm B&W silent
1926 Superfluous people Aleksandr Razumny B&W
1929 The Blue Express. Ilya Trauberg 62 min 16mm B&W silent