Re: Rosowsky, Zeitlin, Achron, Gnessin

[Sean Dunaj <cuspd2...>]

DO NOT SEND ANYMORE MAILINGS TO THIS ADDRESS!!!!!!!
YOUR COOPERATION IS APPRECIATED





At 10:36 AM 11/9/97 -0500, you wrote:
>re:
>>These were musicians and composers in Palestine in the 1920's, =
>>
>>contemporaries of Joel Engel.  Their music was published by the Juwal =
>>publishing house, run by Engel.  I have acquired some photocopies of =
>>chamber music written by these composers: "Fantastischer Tanz" for piano =
>>trio by Rosowsky, "Reb Nachman's Niggun" by Zeitlin for string quartet =
>>or quintet, "Elegy" by Achron and "Variations" by Gnessin, both for =
>>string quartet (the title page says "klei shir kashtiim").
>>
>>Does anyone have any information about these composers?  Anything would =
>>be of interest.  Thanks,
>>
>>Yoel Epstein
>
>My reading reveals...
>
>   Joseph Achron (1886P1943), a violin prodigy born in 
>   Lithuania, toured Russia near the age of ten. He is 
>   said to have composed his first melody at the age of 
>   two, on a violin made by his father. In 1911, he 
>   co-founded the Society for Jewish Folk Music, in Petrograd 
>   (Leningrad). On his way to Hollywood (1934), he spent 
>   time in Berlin, Palestine, and New York (1925). Turning 
>   later to composing, his music is a mixture of light and 
>   serious works.  According to Artur Holde:   "[A]s few 
>   musicians, he knew how to achieve a new convincing 
>   unity of the primary sources of Jewish music and the 
>   basic characteristics of his own personality."
>
>
>   Son of a renowned rabbi and a talented singer, Michael 
>   Gnessin (1883P1957) worked as composer, teacher, 
>   writer, and publisher of music. He studied with Nikolai 
>   Rimsky-Korsakov. Later, as professor of composition at 
>   the Moscow Conservatory, he served as head of the 
>   "studios for the development of the national musics of 
>   the Soviet peoples." One of the founders of the Society 
>   of Jewish Folk Music (1908), Gnessin himself indicated 
>   that his musical style is based on tunes of his 
>   maternal grandfather, the synagogue tradition, and 
>   melodies he collected in Palestine (1921).
>
>Dan
>  +----------------------------------------------------------+
>    Daniel Kazez, Associate Professor of Music
>    Wittenberg University, Springfield, Ohio 45501-0720  USA
>    tel 937-327-7354  fax 937-327-6340  kazez (at) wittenberg(dot)edu
>  +------/\------------------------------------------/\------+
>        /  \                                        /  \
>  -\---/----\---/------------------------------\---/----\---/-
>  --\-/------\-/-----Music-on-Jewish-Themes-----\-/------\-/--
>  ---\--------/----------------------------------\--------/---
>  --/-\------/-\------Daniel-Kazez-cellist------/-\------/-\--
>  -/---\----/---\------------------------------/---\----/---\-
>        \  /                                        \  /
>INTERNAT \/ CONCERT TOURS                            \/
> 1995  Prague, Toronto, Berlin, Rome, Florence
>       Paris, Salzburg, Brussels, London
> 1996  India/Bombay, Pune, Bangalore, Madras
> 1997  Britain/England, Scotland, Wales
> 1998  Morocco, Italy
>
>WEB SITES
> http://www.cello.org/cnc/kazez.htm
> http://www.cello.org/cnc/jewish.htm
> http://www.oac.ohio.gov/artstour/solo/kazez.htm
>
>