Isadore Freed

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Isadore Freed (born March 26, 1900 in Brest-Litowsk , † November 10, 1960 in Rockville Center , New York ) was an American composer .

Freed, son of a Jewish family from Belarus, came to Philadelphia with his family at the age of three. He studied music at the University of Pennsylvania until 1918 . In 1923 he took piano lessons with Josef Weiss in Berlin for several months . In 1926 the first performance of Freed's compositions by the Friends of Chamber Music took place in Philadelphia.

From 1928 to 1933 Freed studied composition in Paris with Ernest Bloch , Vincent d'Indy and Nadia Boulanger . After returning to the United States, he founded the Philadelphia Chamber Orchestra and the Composers' Laboratory . The Laboratory allowed young composers to perform chamber music works.

From 1937 Freed taught music at Temple University and took up a post as organist and choirmaster at Temple Keneseth Israel in Philadelphia. In 1944 he became head of the composition department of the Julius Hartt Musical Foundation in Hartford, on whose behalf he wrote the opera The Princess and the Vagabond in 1946 .

In 1939 Freed's first liturgical work, Sacred Service for Shabbat Morning, was written . Since 1951 he has taught at the newly established Hebrew Union School of Sacred Music . From 1942 to 1944 he was President of the Jewish Music Forum , he was also a board member of the Jewish Liturgical Society and the Hebrew Union College of Sacred Music . In 1958 his work Harmonizing the Jewish Modes appeared .

Works

  • Vibrations , ballet, 1928
  • Homo Sum , Opera, 1930
  • String quartet , 1931
  • String quartet , 1932
  • Jeux de timbres , 1933
  • String quartet , 1937
  • Sacred Service for Shabbat Morning , 1939
  • Trio for flute, viola and harp, 1940
  • Symphony No. 1 , 1941
  • Triptych for violin, viola, cello and piano, 1943
  • Appalachian Symphonic Sketches , 1946
  • Festival Overture , 1946
  • Passacaglia for cello and piano, 1947
  • The Princess and the Vagabond , opera, first performed in 1948
  • Wind quintet , 1949
  • Symphony No. 2 , 1951
  • Rhapsody for trombone and orchestra, 1951
  • Violin Concerto , 1951
  • Cello Concerto , 1952
  • Concertino for cor anglais and orchestra, 1953
  • Oboe Sonatina , 1954
  • Hasidic Service , 1954
personal data
SURNAME Freed, Isadore
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American composer
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Brest , Belarus
DATE OF DEATH November 10, 1960
Place of death Rockville Center , New York