Daniel Sambursky

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Memorial plaque on Daniel Sambursky's house in Tel Aviv

Daniel Sambursky , Hebrew דניאל סמבורסקי, (born June 4, 1909 in Königsberg (Prussia) ; died October 3, 1977 in Tel Aviv , Israel ) was an Israeli composer.

Life

Daniel Sambursky, the brother of the physicist Shmuel Sambursky , grew up in a Zionist family. His parents had emigrated from Russia to Koenigsberg, his father Menachem Emanuel Sambursky (1866–1934) wrote for the Hebrew newspaper Ha-Zefira . Daniel Sambursky studied music at the Gdansk Conservatory and began studying medicine at Berlin's Humboldt University . In Berlin, Hanns Eisler's political commitment to the proletarian revolution became a guideline for Sambursky. In the early 1930s he joined the left-wing Zionist group Barak in the German capital .

In 1932 he emigrated to Palestine and until 1948 was a music teacher at grammar schools in Tel Aviv. He composed numerous song melodies, including for the Hagana unit FO'SH , based on texts by Nathan Alterman , Jizchak Schenhar , Levin Kipnis and Chaim Nachman Bialik . After the establishment of the State of Israel , Sambursky continued to work as a music teacher and organized the country's first communal singing events , called Shira betzibur ("singing in the community") in Israel . Many of his songs are still popular today, including Shir haemek from 1934 (“Song of the Valley”, meaning Emek Jizre'el , lyrics: Nathan Alterman). This song, with the initial words Ba'a M'nucha , found its way into the Evangelical Hymnbook (No. 489) as Enter into Your Peace .

Sambursky died in Tel Aviv in 1977 and was buried in the Kiryat Shaul cemetery. In the Tel Aviv district of Azorei Chen , a street was named after Daniel Sambursky.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Barbara von der Lühe: The Emigration of German-Speaking Musicians to the British Mandate Palestine: Their Contribution to the Development of Israeli Radio, Opera and Music Education since 1933 . P. Lang, 1999, ISBN 978-3-631-33510-9 , pp. 256 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  2. ↑ Lyrics with English translation and sound sample
personal data
SURNAME Sambursky, Daniel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES דניאל סמבורסקי (Hebrew)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli composer
DATE OF BIRTH June 4, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Königsberg (Prussia)
DATE OF DEATH 3rd October 1977
Place of death Tel Aviv , Israel