Isaak Osipovich Dunayevsky (Russian: ÐÑаак ÐÑÐ¸Ð¿Ð¾Ð²Ð¸Ñ ÐÑнаевÑкий listen ; also transliterated as Dunaevski or Dunaevskiy; 30 January [O.S. 18 January] 1900 â 25 July 1955) was a Soviet film composer and conductor of the 1930s and 1940s, who composed music for operetta and film comedies, frequently working with the film director Grigori Aleksandrov.