Jascha Nemtsov

Jascha Nemtsov ( Russian Яков Григорьевич Немцов , scientific transliteration Âkov Grigor'evič Nemcov ; born October 7, 1963 in Magadan in Siberia , USSR ) is a Russian pianist and musicologist.

biography

Jascha Nemtsov is the son of a Gulag survivor. From 1965 he lived in Leningrad . He graduated from the special music school there with a gold medal and then continued his musical training at the St. Petersburg State Conservatory (concert diploma with distinction).

His international pianistic career only began in the mid-1990s after he moved to the Federal Republic of Germany. In addition to the classical-romantic piano repertoire, Nemtsov devotes himself intensively to the music of the 20th century. His specialties are Jewish art music and Russian music, especially works by Dmitri Shostakovich . He also performed several concert programs with works by Jewish composers who were persecuted and murdered by the National Socialists, such as Viktor Ullmann , Erwin Schulhoff , Pavel Haas and Gideon Klein . Nemtsov often arranges his performances as talk concerts in which he tells vividly about the fate of the composers and the historical background.

On January 27, 2012, Nemtsov played works by Frédéric Chopin and Mieczysław Weinberg on the occasion of the commemoration day of the victims of National Socialism in the German Bundestag .

Jascha Nemtsov is married to the composer Sarah Nemtsov .

CD productions

So far, Nemtsov has recorded a total of 35 CDs with numerous world premiere recordings. These include works for piano solo, as well as chamber music with partners Tabea Zimmermann , David Geringas , Ingolf Turban , Dmitri Sitkowetski , Julia Rebekka Adler and the Vogler Quartet . Several CDs have received international awards, including a. as “Audiophile Reference - The Best of 2001”, “CHOC - Le Monde de la Musique” or “Disc of the Month April 2006” (BBC Music Magazine). The CD with sonatas for violin and piano by Dmitri Schostakowitsch and Mieczysław Weinberg (with the violinist Kolja Blacher ) received the 2007 German Record Critics' Prize . With his CD projects he presented to the public for the first time the music of some composers who had been completely forgotten, including Juliusz Wolfsohn and Jakob Schönberg . Nemtsov was awarded the Opus Klassik Prize in 2018 for his anthology of five CDs with first recordings of piano works by the Russian composer Vsevolod Saderazki , who was persecuted under Stalinism .

Musicological activity

Jascha Nemtsov has been a member of the Institute for Jewish Studies at the University of Potsdam since 2002 . He received his doctorate in 2004 and completed his habilitation in 2007. His academic work focuses on Jewish music and Jewish composers in the 20th century. The most important specialty is the so-called New Jewish School in Music, a composers' association that was active between the two world wars in Russia and in some Western European countries and developed a decidedly Jewish style based on Yiddish folklore and synagogue music. Jascha Nemtsov also teaches at the Abraham Geiger College of the University of Potsdam , whose Cantorial School he currently heads. In 2011 he was visiting professor for Jewish music and culture at the University of Lüneburg . In 2013 he was appointed to the new professorship for the history of Jewish music at the FRANZ LISZT University of Music in Weimar. Since the beginning of the 2013 summer semester, Nemtsov has been teaching at the joint institute for musicology at the Weimar Academy of Music and the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena .

Publications

• The New Jewish School in Music . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 978-3-447-05034-0 (= Jewish music . Volume 2, also dissertation at the University of Potsdam 2004).
• Jewish art music in the 20th century: sources, history, style analysis . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2006, ISBN 978-3-447-05293-1 (= Jewish music. Volume 3).
• Encyclopedic finding aid of the Potsdam Archives of the New Jewish School in Music . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-447-05786-8 (= Jewish music. Volume 8).
• Arno Nadel (1878-1943). His contribution to Jewish musical culture . Hentrich & Hentrich, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-938485-89-7 (= Jewish miniatures. Volume 77).
• Oskar Guttmann (1885–1943) and Alfred Goodman (1919–1999) Berlin: Hentrich & Hentrich, 2009, ISBN 978-3-941450-13-4 (= Jewish miniatures , volume 89).
• Zionism in Music: Jewish Music and the National Idea . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2009, ISBN 978-3-447-05734-9 (= Jewish music. Volume 11).
• German-Jewish Identity and the Struggle for Survival: Jewish Composers in Berlin during the Nazi Era . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2010.
• Louis Lewandowski . “Love makes the song immortal!” Hentrich & Hentrich, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-94227-138-7 (= Jewish miniatures. Volume 114).
• Distributed twice. German-Jewish composers from Eastern Europe in Palestine / Israel . Harrasowitz, Wiesbaden 2013, ISBN 978-3-447-06975-5 (= Jewish music. Volume 11).
• " Charles Valentin Alkan . A Jewish Musician in the Age of Emancipation", in: CV Alkan , ed. Text + kritik, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-86916-600-1 (= Music Concepts Vol. 178), p. 28-49.

Web links

• Website by Jascha Nemtsov
• Literature by and about Jascha Nemtsov in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar News at a glance: Call to Weimar: Jascha Nemtsov is the new professor for the history of Jewish music at the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link became automatic marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed April 11, 2013  
2. ↑ Review: Peter Sühring on info-netz-musik , May 26, 2011; accessed on September 21, 2014
3. ↑ Review: Peter Sühring on info-netz-musik , October 19, 2011; accessed on September 21, 2014
4. ↑ Review: Peter Sühring on info-netz-musik , October 29, 2012; Retrieved September 20, 2014
5. ↑ Review: Peter Sühring on info-netz-musik , May 19, 2014, accessed on September 20, 2014