Allan Gray
Known for: Sound
Born: February 23, 1904 — Died: September 10, 1973
Place of birth: Tarnów, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Tarnów, Malopolskie, Poland]
Allan (or Josef as he was then) studied under the great pioneering modernist Arnold Schönberg. To pay for his tuition he composed popular, jazz-influenced tunes for cabaret acts in Berlin. Josef took his pseudonym from Oscar Wilde's narcissistic hero, Dorian Gray.
