Mischa Spoliansky was a composer, pianist and cabaret musician, born in Białystok and active especially in Berlin and later Britain. He became associated with theatre, film and popular song.

In the Pristine catalogue he appears in Gershwin: The First Recordings, a release tracing early and composer-linked documents around Gershwin’s music.

Spoliansky’s presence reflects the cosmopolitan cabaret, dance-band and theatre world in which classical, popular and jazz-inflected idioms crossed freely.

His page is justified by historical context. Spoliansky gives the Gershwin shelf a Berlin cabaret side-light.