Artur Gelbrun
Artur Gelbrun (born July 11, 1913 in Warsaw ; † December 23, 1985 ) was an Israeli violinist , violist , music teacher, conductor and composer of Polish origin.
Life
Gelbrun studied violin at the Warsaw Conservatory (until 1935) and conducting with Valerian Bierdiajew (until 1937). As a violinist and violist, he was a member of the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra from 1935–37. He continued his training as a conductor with Bernardino Molinari in Rome and with Alfredo Casella in Siena. During the Second World War he lived in Switzerland. There he studied with Hermann Scherchen and took composition lessons with Willy Burkhard . From 1944 to 1948 he played the violin and viola in the Tonhalle Orchestra .
In 1949 he went to Israel, where he was mainly active as a conductor and composer. From 1949 to 1953 he was permanent guest conductor of the Kol Israel Symphony Orchestra, from 1950 to 1955 chief conductor of the Inter-Kibbutz Symphony Orchestra and from 1950 to 1956 chief conductor of the Israel Youth Orchestra. He was also Professor of Composition and Conducting at the Rubin Academy in Tel Aviv.
As a composer, Gelbrun oriented himself towards Arthur Honegger , Maurice Ravel and Gustav Mahler , from the mid-1950s he also made use of twelve-tone technique and aleatoric . In 1954 his oratorio Lamentation on the Victims of the Warsaw Ghetto (1952) for baritone, choir and orchestra based on Jizchak Katzenelson's poem Dos lid funm ojsgehargetn yidish folk (song of the slain Jewish people) was premiered.
swell
- Eckhard John: "Jewish music ?: External images, self-images" , Böhlau Verlag Cologne Weimar, 2004, ISBN 9783412168032 , pp. 208-09
- Doris Lanz: "New music in old walls: the" Gattiker house evenings for contemporary music ": a Bern concert history 1940-1967" , Verlag Peter Lang, 2006, ISBN 9783039108497 , p. 134 ff
- Schott Music - Artur Gelbrun
- Artur Gelbrun at Allmusic (English)
- Artur Gelbrun at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Yohanan Boehm, Nathan Mishori: Gelbrun, Artur. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
- ↑ a b biography at the Israel Music Institute (English)
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| SURNAME | Gelbrun, Artur |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli violinist, violist, music teacher, conductor and composer of Polish origin |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 11, 1913 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Warsaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 23, 1985 |