Composer
Edmund Meisel
Edmund Meisel (1894–1930) was an Austrian-born composer who worked in Berlin and wrote original scores for silent films. He is best remembered for his driving, percussive music for Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin and for Ruttmann's Berlin. His early death in 1930 cut short a promising career at the end of the silent era.
Key films
Battleship Potemkin (1925)
His forceful, rhythmic score for its German release became one of the best-known silent-film scores.
Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (1927)
His original music accompanied Walter Ruttmann's landmark city-symphony documentary.
October (Ten Days that Shook the World) (1928)
He scored Eisenstein's follow-up to Potemkin, continuing their collaboration.
Storm Over Mont Blanc (1930)
One of his last film scores, written shortly before his death.
Key awards
No major awards are documented here.
On Cinespective
Full filmography · 4
- 1925Battleship PotemkinComposer
- 1927Berlin: Symphony of a Great CityComposer
- 1928October (Ten Days that Shook the World)Composer
- 1930Storm Over Mont BlancComposer
Filmography data from TMDB. The profile text is a draft written for Cinespective.