There are a couple of really nice CD/DVD compilations (called, imaginatively, Russian Film Music I+II and Russian Film Music III) from Bel Air Music (check out their hideous 90s-look website at http://www.belairmusic.com/BAM%20russian%20film%20&%20sacred%20music.htm) that have got tracks from all these guys and more, plus Tariverdiev as well as the more obvious Prokofiev/Shostakovich/Khachaturian... I first sought them out because I was trying in vain to get hold of Vladimir Dashkevich's Sherlock Holmes soundtrack album.
I (sadly) had to remove Abril from the list, as he passed away recently, but now that it's 2021, I've added 1936 to the list. So far only two composers I came up with for that year - Carl Davis and Klaus Doldinger. Feel free to suggest more, or to otherwise look through the list for updates.
By the way, I can't help but be impressed by that Ray Anthony fella. He's 99 now, 100 next year. And although not a composer, he played on many soundtracks, as previously noted. Here's a video from 2017 - on his 95th birthday - where he does a small gig in a bathroom, of all places:
The "proper" oldest film composers on the list, William Kraft and Johnny Pate, are still going strong at 97.
Thor, Giacomo is a maestro, lovely man, edda's husband. They live in Rome. It was he who co-wrote n orchestrated most of Nico Fidenco's 60s scores. His brother Gianni is founder of GDM.
Nora had a rival choir to Alessandroni's Cantori Moderni but is a composer too. Check out 10,000 dollars for a massacre.
Thor, Giacomo is a maestro, lovely man, edda's husband. They live in Rome. It was he who co-wrote n orchestrated most of Nico Fidenco's 60s scores. His brother Gianni is founder of GDM.
Had no idea Michael Giamcomo was over 85. I love his score to "The Incredibles."
Mr Reverberi wrote some wonderful stuff. Not least the one many ukers of a certain age hummed at school the next day.
I've just "found out" - in inverted commas, in case it isn't true - that Georges Van Parys wrote the original score, which was replaced by the Reverberi-Mellin melange known to everyone for evoking no school and long summer holidays.
Is the YouTube suite the SilvaScreen re-recording?
While not known as a film composer per se - she did score a few films - Elisabeth Waldo is apparently still alive and will turn 103 on June 15. She is a violinist, composer, and ethnomusicologist who used pre-Columbian instruments in her compositions.
