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Irving Berlin - Biography, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Filmography
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May 11, 1888, Tyumen, Russian Empire - September 22, 1989, USA - American composer.
It is sometimes mistakenly believed that Irving Berlin was born in Tyumen, the youngest of eight children into the family of the synagogue cantor Moisei Beilin (1848-1901) and Lea Lipkina (1850-1922), natives of Tyumen, Mogilev province, now in Belarus. The oldest children in the family were born in Tyumen and the oldest brother of the future composer remained in the city after the emigration of the rest of the family. At the same time, in his interviews from 1930-1940, I. Berlin said that he was born in Mogilev.
When Steven Spielberg in the 1980s conceived to shoot a film about I. Berlin and met with the composer about this, he unexpectedly said that in fact he was from Tobolsk.
Soon after the birth of the future composer, the family moved to Tobolsk. From there, the Beilins, via the port of Antwerp, on the ship "Rhynland" sailed to New York, where they arrived on September 14, 1893.
Israel Beilin grew up in Manhattan, on the Lower East-Side, where many immigrants from the Russian Empire and Eastern Europe lived at the time. Left without a father early, having studied at school for only 2 years, I. Beilin went to work. The future composer managed to work as a messenger in a shop, a newspaper peddler, a waiter in a music cafe. Commissioned by the owner of the cafe, the 16-year-old waiter wrote his first song, "Mary from Sunny Italy." The author's fee was 37 cents.
In 1907, the future composer wanted to publish a song for the first time, and the typesetters in the printing house negligently distorted the name of the customer. Thanks to this mistake, the composer went down in history under the surname Berlin.
Berlin was a member of the Masonic Order. The dedication took place on May 12, 1910. Served at Munn Lodge # 190, New York.
Irving Berlin died in his sleep on September 22, 1989.
Ronald Reagan, who left the post of US President shortly before, to whom Berlin once advised to think about a career as an artist, sent condolences to the composer's death. And the current President George W. Bush at the funeral ceremony in Boston led a mourning column singing "God Bless America", and then delivered a speech in which he called I. Berlin "a legendary man whose words and music will help understand history our people ”.
