Samuel Pokrass

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Samuel Yakovlevich Pokrass (Самуил Яковлевич Покрасс) (1897 in Kiev – September 15, 1939 in New York City) was a Russian composer of Jewish origin. During the Soviet civil war in 1920, with poet P. Grigoryev, he wrote combat songs for the Red Army, including "White Army, Black Baron." He later emigrated to the United States, where he worked as a composer in Hollywood from 1934 to 1939. In the USA he was mostly known for the musical The Three Musketeers.

References

A. V. Shilov, Из истории первых советских песен (1917–24), М., 1963
A. Sokhor, Как начиналась советская музыка, "МЖ", 1967, No 2.

External links

Samuel Pokrass at the Internet Movie Database
Samuel Pokrass in the Russian Wikipedia

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Name	Pokrass, Samuel
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Short description	Russian composer
Date of birth	1897
Place of birth
Date of death	September 15, 1939
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