Dukel'sky, Vladimir Aleksandrovich
(1903–1969)
Dukel'sky [Dukyélsky] (Dukelsky), Vladimir Aleksandrovich (better known as Vernon Duke) (10–10–1903, Parfianovka, near Pskov; 1–16–1969, Santa Monica, CA). Pianist, comp., and poet. Studied with Glier and Dombrovsky at the Kiev Cons. (1916–19), then fled to Constantinople in 1920 (he was a nephew of a prince of Imperial Russia). In 1922 he settled in the United States, where he wrote popular songs such as “April in Paris” (from Walk a Little Faster, 1932) and became a friend of Gershwin, who…