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Re: Rosowsky, Zeitlin, Achron, Gnessin
- From: Sean Dunaj <cuspd2...>
- Subject: Re: Rosowsky, Zeitlin, Achron, Gnessin
- Date: Sun 09 Nov 1997 18.07 (GMT)
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At 10:36 AM 11/9/97 -0500, you wrote:
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>>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
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> Wittenberg University, Springfield, Ohio 45501-0720 USA
> tel 937-327-7354 fax 937-327-6340 kazez (at) wittenberg(dot)edu
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- Rosowsky, Zeitlin, Achron, Gnessin,
yoel epstein
- Re: Rosowsky, Zeitlin, Achron, Gnessin,
Dan Kazez
- Re: Rosowsky, Zeitlin, Achron, Gnessin,
Sean Dunaj
- Re: Rosowsky, Zeitlin, Achron, Gnessin,
Izaly Zemtsovsky