Eli Freud

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Eli Freud (born June 14, 1914 in Trieste , Austria-Hungary ; died February 7, 2010 in Jerusalem ) was an Israeli musician, conductor and composer.

Life

Eli Freud was the son of the high school professor, editor of the Wiener Morgenzeitung and Zionist Arthur Freud and Stephanie Freud. The family moved back to Moravia after the outbreak of war in 1915, and from 1920 they lived in Vienna.

Freud received private piano lessons from Walter Taussig and Robert Walter Spitz. He studied oboe with Alexander Wunderer and conducting with Felix Weingartner and Josef Krips at the Vienna Music Academy and graduated in 1937. After the annexation of Austria in 1938 he fled to Prague and in 1939 to Palestine .

There he played salon and dance music as an accordionist, pianist, saxophonist and oboist in the "Eli Freud and his Swing Sextet" and the "Palestine Broadcasting Orchestra", among others. He worked as a music teacher at the Jerusalem and Tel Aviv music academies and self-published accordion music. He worked as a music librarian for the Kol Israel Orchestra .

In 1955 Freud founded the Israel Bach Society orchestra, which he conducted for 30 years, and in 1990 the Jerusalem Chamber Orchestra. Between 1981 and 1987 Freud held teaching positions at Osnabrück University and Bielefeld University .

literature

  • Alisa Douer : New territory. Israeli artists of Austrian origin. Picus, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-85452-407-2 , p. 138f. (Book accompanying the exhibition of the same name).

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Evelyn Adunka, Andrea M. Lauritsch (Ed.): Arthur Freud. Retrospectives. Memories of a Zionist. Moravia - Gorizia / Gorizia - Trieste / Trieste - Vienna . Commented and edited by Armin A. Wallas. Mandelbaum, Vienna 2019, ISBN 978-3-85476-822-7 , p. 7.
personal data
SURNAME Freud, Eli
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli musician, conductor and composer
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Trieste
DATE OF DEATH February 7, 2010
Place of death Jerusalem