Re: Jewish influences in classical music and vice versa

[Dubuc <J.Luc.Dubuc...>]

David Herskovic wrote:
> 
> It's nice to know that this list discusses all jewish music and not only
> klezmer.
> 
> Here are a few pieces that sound jewish to me and I wonder whether it is
> the composer being influenced by Jewish themes or Jews noshing from the
> classical repertoire.
> 
> The opening of Tchaikovsky's Marche Slave is very similar to a Jewish
> wedding tune 'khosen kale mazel tov'.
> 
> One of the strains in the slow part of the William Tell overture is
> similar to a chupa tune.
> 
> In the first movement of Chopin's first piano concerto the piano plays
> out a short melody that has a heimishe touch to it. (I admit being hard
> pressed to give the exact definition of a 'heimishe touch'.)
> 
> I have read about Beethoven using the Kol Nidrei tune in his String
> Quartet no.14 op. 131, though I can hardly detect it.
> 
> And then of course there is Hatikvah and Smetana's Ma Vlast.
> 
> David Herskovic

Dear David

I have a CD of a work from Chostakovich who wrote a:Song Cycle From Jewish
Folk Poetry+
I think that the Ouverture on Hebrew Themes from Prokofiev is typical
  Jean-Luc Dubuc