JFM/High Noon: Dimitri Tiomkin’s Oscar-Winning Ballad and its Russian Sources

Legendary Hollywood composer Dimitri Tiomkin (1894-1979) represents a golden era of film, arguably an apex of the role music has played in cinematic art. His presence in films was as strong as that of the film director: for example, the font size of Tiomkin’s name in the screen credits for Red River (1948) is the same as that of director Howard Hawks. This paper explores the Russian sources of Tiomkin's High Noon.