Alexander Uriah Boskovitch
Alexander Uriah Boskovitch ( Hebrew אלכסנדר אוריה בוסקוביץ '; * August 16, 1907 in Cluj ; † November 5, 1964 in Tel Aviv ) was an Israeli composer and music teacher.
From 1924 he studied piano and composition in Budapest, Vienna and Paris (with Lazare Lévy , Paul Dukas , Alfred Cortot and Nadia Boulanger, among others ). The Paris time established his preference for French music and culture. From 1930 he directed the opera house in his hometown and founded a Jewish ensemble with the Goldmark Orchestra.
In his early work, in compositions such as Cantique d'été (1936) or Chansons populaires juives (1937), he combined strong French influences with his predilection for Jewish folk music. The cantique d'été is reminiscent of the music of Claude Debussy , and the chansons populaires juives are based on Jewish folk melodies that he took from the book The Most Beautiful Songs of the Eastern Jews , published by Fritz Mordechai Kaufmann .
In 1938 he emigrated to Palestine. Here he worked as a teacher at the Tel Aviv Conservatory.
In addition to musicians such as Paul Ben-Haim , Marc Lavry and Ödön Pártos , he is considered a representative of an (east) Mediterranean style of music, the concept of which Max Brod presented in his 1951 book Die Musik Israels . This style is characterized by irregular metrics, repetitions and variations, simplified or missing polyphony, a Jewish-Yemeni melody and the preferred use of instruments such as clarinet and oboe.
Works
- Jewish folk songs , 1938
- Adonai Ro'i for alto and orchestra, 1946
- Cantico di ma'alot for orchestra, 1960
- Bal Ysrael , 1960-61
literature
- Amaury Du Closel: Choked voices: "Degenerate Music" in the Third Reich , Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2010, ISBN 9783205782926 , pp. 258–59
- Jehoash Hirshberg: Alexander U. Boscovitch and the Quest for an Israeli National Musical Style ; in Ezra Mendelsohn (Ed.): Studies in Contemporary Jewry, Volume IX - Modern Jews and Their Musical Agendas , Oxford University Press, New York 1993, ISBN 0-19-508617-1 , page 107 ff.
Web links
- Jehoash Hirshberg: Boskovitch, Alexander Uria. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
- Biography, discography and photos in The National Library of Israel (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Jehoash Hirshberg: Boscovitch, Alexander Uriah. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 3 (Bjelinski - Calzabigi). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2000, ISBN 3-7618-1113-6 ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
- ↑ Biography at the Israel Music Institute (English)
- ↑ Jehoash Hirshberg: Alexander U. Boskovitch and the Quest for at Israeli National Music Style . In: Ezra Mendelsohn (ed.): Studies in Contemporary Jewry: Volume IX: Modern Jews and Their Musical Agendas , Institute of Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1994, ISBN 9780195358827 , p. 107
- ↑ valley Soker: The Mediterranean Style - From Pan-Semitism to Israeli Nationalism ; in Magdalena Waligórska (Ed.): Music, Longing and Belonging - Articulations of the Self and the Other in the Musical Realm , Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013, ISBN 978-1-4438-6949-2 , p. 85
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Boskovitch, Alexander Uriah |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Boskovich, Alexander U .; Boscovitch, Alexander Uriah |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli composer and music teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 16, 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cluj |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th November 1964 |
| Place of death | Tel Aviv |