Claude Abravanel

Claude Abravanel (born July 16, 1924 in Montreux , Canton of Vaud , Switzerland ; † December 14, 2012 ) was an Israeli pianist , musicologist and composer of Swiss origin.

Life

Claude Abravanel's father was a pharmacist, his mother a singer, whom he accompanied on the piano from an early age. First studied piano with Pierre Souvarain (1911–2000) at the Conservatory in Bern. From 1944 to 1948 he studied piano with Dinu Lipatti at the Conservatoire de musique de Genève and from 1948 to 1951 he studied composition with Arthur Honegger and piano with Yvonne Lefébure at the École Normale de Musique de Paris . In 1951 he emigrated to Israel and was a lecturer in music theory , harmony and counterpoint at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance from 1952 to 1992 . In 1958 he founded a music library within the academy, which he headed until 1992. In 1965 he was appointed director of the Academy's Musical Instrument Museum, and in 1988 he established an archive for Israeli music. He headed these two institutions until 2004. From 1994, he worked as a volunteer in the music department of the National Library of Israel as an archivist.

Abravanel wrote musicological articles for various magazines and was a member of the Israel's Composer's League , ACUM , the Israeli music collecting society , and the Israel Musicological Society . He had three children with his wife, Sara Treves.

Works (selection)

The Israeli National Library has an extensive collection of writings, works, letters, newspaper clippings and documents from the estate of Claude Abravanel.

Musical compositions

Claude Abravanel composed orchestral music, chamber music, solo works and songs.

• Chants popularies d'Israel for voice and piano, 1949 OCLC 875103332
• Ballad of outer life for voice and piano, 1949 Text: Hugo von Hofmannsthal OCLC 875103318
• Trois danses [Three Dances] for voice and orchestra, 1951 OCLC 907811520
• Prelude pour le piano, 1951 homage to Arthur Honegger OCLC 875103195
• Three chorales by Johann Sebastian Bach , arranged for piano OCLC 875103340
• Le bois amical for voice and piano , text: Paul Valéry OCLC 907776079
• Four Psalms for Voice and Small Orchestra, 1960 OCLC 907810589 I Psalm 130 II Psalm 23 III Psalm 88 IV Psalm 121
• Jerusalem for high voice and orchestra, 1972, text: Yolande Gerstl OCLC 875103285
• Johann Sebastian Bach: O Gott du frommer Gott (Choral from Cantata No. 24) , 1973, arrangement for piano OCLC 875103325
• Elegy for low voice and flute, 1975 Text: Nathan Yonathan OCLC 875103123
• 3 Airs religieux francis des 17eme et 18eme siecles , 1976, arrangement for voice and piano OCLC 875103333
• Les Amours de Ronsard for voice and piano, 1980, text: Pierre de Rosard OCLC 875103330

• Baqasha (Supplication) for flute and piano , 1981 OCLC 907811516
• Sonata for violin and piano, 1983 OCLC 875103337
• Three sonnets by Francesco Petrarca for high voice and piano, 1986 OCLC 875103324
• Prelude, Aria and Postlude for clarinet and piano, 1997/98 OCLC 875103194
• Hymn of Praise on a Yemenite Motive for high voice and piano, 1998 OCLC 234011987
• Four songs for low voice and cello, 1998 OCLC 907776081

Musicological publications

• The Bible in the works of Heinrich Schütz , 1961 OCLC 875103308
• The Bible in the works of William Byrd , 1962 OCLC 907776273
• La Musique populaire Israelienne , 1963 OCLC 875103361
• The Bible in the music of modern Swiss composers , 1964 OCLC 875103347
• Ernest Chausson , article for Kol Israel , January 1965 OCLC 875103358
• The Jewish works of Darius Milhaud , Tatzlil, 1966 OCLC 875103356
• The Bible in the works of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach , 1970 OCLC 875103343
• The Bible in instrumental music printed during the 16th century , 1972 OCLC 875103346
• The Old testament in instrumental music printed during the 16th century , 1972 OCLC 875103231
• The Bible in the works of Michel Richard de Lalande , 1972 OCLC 907776272
• An unknown Biblical Oratorio: "Il Giudizio di Salomone (1698) by Marc 'Antonio Ziani , 1972 OCLC 907776272

• Claude Debussy : a bibliographaphy . in the Detroit studies in music bibliography series by Detroit: Information Coordinators, Detroit, 1974 ISBN 978-0-911-77249-4
• The Bible in French music from Louis 14 until the revolution , 1974 OCLC 875103307
• The Old Testament in the works of Johann Christian Bach Leipzig , 1974 OCLC 907776274
• Bibliography of piano music by Israeli composers , 1974 OCLC 875103352
• The Old Testament in French music from the revolution until World War 1 , 1975 OCLC 875103362
• The historical position of Debussy in French Music , 1979 OCLC 875103132
• An unknown manuscript of Italian synagogal compositions , 1979 OCLC 875103387
• An unknown manuscript of music and dance , 1979 OCLC 1018269393
• Schumann and Bach , 1993 OCLC 875103394
• Le Symbolisme dans l'execution musicale , 1995 OCLC 875103269
• Symbolism and performance , 1999 OCLC 875103396
• Esquisses Hebraiques , 1999 OCLC 875103314 CD booklet of the CD of the same name by Dieter Klöcker and the Vlach Quartet Prague

literature

• Claude Abravanel . In: Adrian Gaster: International who's who in music and musicians' directory , Cambridge, 1980, page 3 (English) ISBN 0 900 332 51 4

Web links

• Claude Abravanel at The National Library of Israel

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Claude Abravanel . In: Adrian Gaster (Ed.): International who's who in music and musicians' directory . 9th edition. Cambridge: International Who's Who in Music, Cambridge 1980, p. 3 (English, archive.org [accessed October 22, 2019]).
2. ↑ Claude Abravanel. In: https://web.nli.org.il . The National Library of Israel, accessed October 21, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Supplication: choreographic poem for flute & piano / Claude Abravanel. In: http://aleph.nli.org.il . The NAtional Library of Israel, accessed October 21, 2019 .