Hanina Karchevsky
Hanina Karchevsky (actually Chanina Kartschewski , Russian Ханина Карчевский , Hebrew חנינא קרצ'בסקי, born 1877 in Petrowka, Bessarabia Governorate , Russian Empire , today Tarutyne Rajon , Ukraine ; died December 20, 1925 in Tel Aviv , Palestine , today Israel ) was a Jewish composer , music educator and conductor .
Life
Karchevsky was born in Stetl Petrowka in Bessarabia . The year of birth is 1877, but some sources also state 1873. In his childhood his musical talent was recognized and he took piano lessons. As a teenager he sang in the synagogue choir in Kishinew . He continued his music studies in Cherson and Warsaw , where he became an orchestra and choir conductor. In 1908 he came to Palestine with the second Aliyah and got a job as a music teacher at the Herzlia-Gymnasium in Tel Aviv , which had been founded a few years earlier . Here he founded school choirs and two youth orchestras; One of the orchestra members at the time was Efraim Ilin (1912–2010), who played the French horn in the orchestra and later became an entrepreneur and security expert. Karchevsky also organized parades at which his students sang songs with a Zionist content that are still known in Israel today. In the sketch “ Aliya ” from the 1970s, in which Arik Einstein and Uri Zohar parody the various waves of immigration , Karchevsky's song Po b'eretz chemdat avot (“Here in the land of the lust of our ancestors”) is heard several times . His song Chaluzim ("Pioneers") is an arrangement of a melody from the "Caucasian Sketches" by Michail Michailowitsch Ippolitow-Ivanov . As a composer, Karchevsky also wrote choral works and études for piano.
Karchevsky lived as a bachelor in solitude, he committed the end of 1925 suicide and was buried in the Trumpeldor cemetery in Tel Aviv. In 1927 the Herzlia-Gymnasium published a collection of his songs, which are kept in the National Library in Jerusalem under the title Zelile Hanina ("Sounds of Hanina") .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Karchevsky, Hanina |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kartschewski, Chanina; Карчевский, Ханина (Russian); חנינא קרצ'בסקי (Hebrew) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian composer, music teacher and conductor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1877 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Petrovka, Bessarabia Governorate |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 20, 1925 |
| Place of death | Tel Aviv , Palestine |