Abel Honest

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Abel Ehrlich (born September 3, 1915 in Cranz / East Prussia , † October 30, 2003 in Tel Aviv ) was an Israeli composer.

Ehrlich grew up in a German-Jewish family and was able to flee to Yugoslavia after graduating from high school in Königsberg in 1934 . He studied composition and violin with Vaclav Huml at the Zagreb Music Academy . In 1938 he emigrated via Albania to what was then Palestine, from 1939 he studied at the Jerusalem Conservatory with Emil Hauser, Tzvi Rothenberg and Solomon Rosowski. He himself then taught at various music academies in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, including from 1953 to 1967 at the Kibbutzim University in Oranim. In 1972 he became a professor at the then Rubin Academy in Tel Aviv, where he also taught at the Bar-Ilan University until 1991 .

He composed 3,450 works, including operas, oratorios as well as choral and solo vocal music, orchestral works, ballets, drama, chamber music and electroacoustic music . His composition Bashrav for solo violin from 1953 became famous . From 1959 he took part in several Darmstadt summer courses with Karlheinz Stockhausen and Henri Pousseur , and in Israel he undertook further studies in electronic music with Josef Tal . The spectrum of his musical language ranged from tonal music to neoclassicism to serial and atonal influences.

He has been awarded the Israeli Prime Minister's ACUM Prize for Composers eight times and the Israel Prize for Music in 1997 .

Works

  • Bashrav for solo violin, 1953
  • The Split Personality of Music Master Botten , short opera, premiered in Jerusalem in 1959
  • ARPMUSIK ( Hans Arp ) for baritone, 12 players and pantomimes, 1971
  • Five Poems by Immanuele Romano , short opera, premiered in Jerusalem in 1971
  • Dead Souls , short opera based on Nikolai Gogol , premiered in Tel Aviv in 1978
  • The Jubilee , comic chamber opera based on Anton Chekhov , 1995
  • About the writing Ezekiel for soprano, oboe, bassoon and violin
  • Don't be like your fathers , chorus
  • King Solomon on Wine for alto, flute and piano
  • Tension and message in a bottle , string quartet (composed for the Iturriaga Quartet )
  • Portrait of Vincent van Gogh at the Age of 27 for solo violin and string quartet ( dedicated to Kolja Lessing and the Iturriaga Quartet)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Peter Petersen :  Abel Ehrlich in the Lexicon of Persecuted Musicians of the Nazi Era (LexM), as of May 22, 2017
  2. ↑ Miri Gerstel:  Honestly, Abel. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 6 (Eames - Franco). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2001, ISBN 3-7618-1116-0  ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
  3. ↑ Ury Eppstein:  Ehrlich, Abel. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
  4. ↑ a b biography in: Israel Composers' League
  5. ↑ a b c d Vita in: Abel Ehrlich Archive at the Berlin Academy of the Arts
  6. ^ CV in: Jewish Music Research Center
personal data
SURNAME Honestly, Abel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli composer
DATE OF BIRTH September 3, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Zelenogradsk
DATE OF DEATH October 30, 2003
Place of death Tel Aviv