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name: "Ernö Rapée"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/erno-rapee"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "4 June 1891"
died: "26 June 1945"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-16T11:27:12.879208+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Ernö Rapée

Composer. Born 4 June 1891 in Budapest, Hungary. Died 26 June 1945.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 4 June 1891, Budapest, Hungary
- **Died:** 26 June 1945
- **Also known as:** Erno Rapee, Erno Rapée, Ernó Rapee

## Biography

Ernö Rapée was a Hungarian-born American composer, conductor and pianist. Born in Budapest in 1891, he studied piano and conducting at the Royal National Hungarian Academy of Music, graduating in 1909. He worked in Europe before settling in New York in 1912, where he began composing and conducting for silent films.

Rapée contributed music to *Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans* (1927) and served as musical director or composer on other films including *The Iron Horse* (1925), *Variety* (1925), *The Man Who Laughs* (1928) and *Little Caesar* (1931). He co-wrote popular songs such as 'Charmaine' and 'Diane'. From 1932 he was musical director of the Radio City Music Hall orchestra until his death in New York in 1945.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, nytimes.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans* (1927), Fi1m 88, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/sunrise-a-song-of-two-humans.md)

## Also known for

- *Little Caesar* (1931), Music Director
- *The Man Who Laughs* (1928), Music
- *The Iron Horse* (1925), Original Music Composer
- *Street Angel* (1928), Music
- *Variety* (1925), Music

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