Erich Walter Sternberg
Erich Walter Sternberg ( Hebrew אריך ולטר שטרנברג; born May 31, 1891 in Berlin ; died December 15, 1974 in Tel Aviv ) was an Israeli composer .
Life
Sternberg was born in 1891 as the son of a doctor. After graduating from high school, he studied law in Kiel , which he successfully completed. After being sworn in at the Berlin court, he decided to become a musician and from 1918 studied music at the Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory in Berlin with Hugo Leichtentritt , Hermann Abert and H. Praetorius. Immediately after graduation, he achieved his big breakthrough with the performance of his first string quartet with alto solo based on the Yiddish folk song Der Param (The Ferry). Adolf Weißmann's positive concert review encouraged him to continue composing.
In 1932 he emigrated to Palestine and became a teacher at the Tel Aviv Conservatory. In 1936 he founded the Palestine Symphony Orchestra (later the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra ) with Bronisław Huberman . From 1938 to 1953 he was President of the Israeli section of the ISHR . He had a close friendship with the musicologist Peter Gradenwitz, who had also emigrated from Germany to Palestine .
He composed seven orchestral works, two string quartets , song cycles, several piano pieces, chamber and theater works, works for choir and orchestra, two operas and an oratorio .
Works
- Dr. Doolittle , Children's Opera, 1932; Premiere 1939
- The Joseph story , 1938
- The twelve tribes of Israel , 1942
- Hear, Israel , 1948
- Counterpoint study , 1955
- Easy Suite , 1957
- The Resurrection of Israel , Oratory, 1959
- Noah's Ark , 1960
- Love songs , 1969
- Pacificia, the Friendly Island , Opera, UA 1974
literature
- Jehoash Hirshberg : Sternberg, Erich Walter. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 15 (Schoof - Stranz). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2006, ISBN 3-7618-1135-7 , Sp. 1440–1441 ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
- Sternberg, Erich Walter , in: Encyclopaedia Judaica , Volume 15, 1971, Col. 394 f.
- Erich Walter Sternberg . In: Habakuk Traber, Elmar Weingarten (Ed.): Displaced music. Berlin composer in exile . Argon, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-87024-118-7 , p. 335 .
Web links
- Works by and about Erich Walter Sternberg in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sternberg, Erich Walter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 31, 1891 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | 15th December 1974 |
| Place of death | Tel Aviv |