Mischa Spoliansky

Mischa Spoliansky
Миша Сполянский
Spoliansky, c. 1914
Background information
Also known asArno Billing
Born
Mikhail Pavlovich Spoliansky

(1928-12-28)28 December 1928
Died28 June 1985(1985-06-28) (aged 56)
London, England
Genres
OccupationComposer
InstrumentPiano

Mikhail Pavlovich Spoliansky (Russian: Михаил Павлович Сполянский, romanizedMikhail Pavlovich Spolyanskiy; 28 December 1898 – 28 June 1985) was a Russian-German composer. He made his name writing cabaret and revue songs in the Weimar Republic, but was forced to emigrate to London in 1933 following the rise of Nazism and stayed in Britain for the rest of his life, re-inventing himself as a composer of film scores.