Rudolph Polk

November 25, 1892 (age 64)

New York

In Hollywood, Polk was the assistant musical director to Morris Stoloff at Columbia Pictures. After World World War II, Polk was musical director for Enterprise Studios. He performed many times with the Berlin Philharmonic in the Early 1920s. He also toured with Feodor Chaliapin (and his longtime piano accompanyist, Fyodor Keneman) in the United States. Polk also studied composition with Paul Juon. Rudolph married Pauline née Stone (1896–1986) in Manhattan, New York, on March 16, 1919. They had two children, Peter and Martha (Hamilton). Jascha Heifetz and Gregor Piatigorsky helped fund the posthumous Rudolph Polk Memorial Scholarship at Claremont Colleges.

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Polk graduated from the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin where he studied violin with Henri Marteau.

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In Hollywood, Polk was the assistant musical director to Morris Stoloff at Columbia Pictures. After World World War II, Polk was musical director for Enterprise Studios. He performed many times with the Berlin Philharmonic in the Early 1920s.

He also toured with Feodor Chaliapin (and his longtime piano accompanyist, Fyodor Keneman) in the United States.

Polk also studied composition with Paul Juon. Rudolph married Pauline née Stone (1896–1986) in Manhattan, New York, on March 16, 1919.

They had two children, Peter and Martha (Hamilton). Jascha Heifetz and Gregor Piatigorsky helped fund the posthumous Rudolph Polk Memorial Scholarship at Claremont Colleges.

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