Rapee, Erno

Erno Rapee Composer Budapest, Hungary, June 4, 1891; New York City, June 26, 1945. Rapee is best remembered for his mid-1920s hits written with Lew Pollack. He was originally a conductor, first working at the Dresden Opera House and then leading concert tours through South America in the early 1910s. He settled in New York in 1912, and began scoring silent films , publishing two very successful collections of “themes” for orchestras to play to accompany films during the mid-1920s. Rapee’s…