Edmund Meisel

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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.^[1] Meisel was one of the more important and pioneering figures in film music.^[2] Much of his work and the evidence of his significance was lost for more than fifty years.