Allan Gray was a composer

Composer

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, noted for his film scores.

He was born Józef Żmigrod in Tarnów

Tarnów

Tarnów is a city in southeastern Poland with 115,341 inhabitants as of June 2009. The city has been situated in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship since 1999, but from 1975 to 1998 it was the capital of the Tarnów Voivodeship. It is a major rail junction, located on the strategic east-west connection...

, which was then in Austria-Hungary

Austria-Hungary

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, but is now part of Poland

Poland

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. He studied under the renowned Austrian composer Arnold Schönberg

Arnold Schoenberg

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 during the 1920s, and later wrote music for Max Reinhardt

Max Reinhardt (theatre director)

----Max Reinhardt was an Austrian theater and film director and actor.-Biography:...

's theatre productions. As Schoenberg disapproved of such music, Żmigrod took up the pen name Allan Gray, naming himself after Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

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's Dorian Gray

Dorian Gray

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He began writing film scores in Germany

Germany

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, but left the country after the rise of the Nazis

Nazism

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, settling in England

England

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