Jewish Classical Composers

[James Forrest <jforrest...>]

HST2nd (at) aol(dot)com wrote:

> There are so many prominent classical performing prodigies with Jewish
names
> but it suddenly struck me that Leonard Bernstein and George Gershwin
were the
> only classical Jewish composers I could name right off. Who are some
others?
>
> (Hey: I'm neither a Jew nor a musician, so please be gentle.  It's an
honest,
> if ignorant, question!)
>
> And, Ari, forgive. It's not really a Klezmer question.
>
> -Stan

Felix Mendelssohn (who converted to Christianity mid-life), Maurice
Ravel,
Jacques Offenbach, Arnold Shoenberg, Aaron Copland, Ernest Bloch. . .to
name a few.


--
James Forrest
jforrest (at) princeton(dot)edu
http://www.princeton.edu/~jforrest
SFC '98
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Music exists - not on canvas nor yet on the staff - only in motion.  The
good listener will hear it as the present prolonged.
         ~Ned Rorem~