Joel Engel

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July Dmitrievich (Joel) Angel ( Russian Юлий Дмитриевич (Йоэль) Энгель ., Scientific transliteration Julij Dmitrievič (Joel ') Angel' ; * April 16 . Jul / 28. April  1868 greg. In Berdyansk , Russian Empire , now Ukraine ; † February 11, 1927 in Tel Aviv , Palestine , today Israel ) was a Russian-Jewish composer , musicologist and music critic .

Joel Engel (1868-1927)

Life

Joel (July) Engel first studied law at the University of Charkow and music theory with Andrejs Jurjāns at the technical school there. On Tchaikovsky's recommendation , he went to the Moscow Conservatory in 1893 , where he completed his music studies with Mikhail Ippolitow-Ivanov and counterpoint with Sergej Taneyev in 1897. After graduating, he worked for over 20 years as a music critic for the daily newspaper Moskowskije Vedomosti (Moscow News). He also published the Russian edition of the Riemann Music Lexicon .

In 1900 Engel began collecting and arranging Jewish folk songs in Russia. In 1908 a group of like-minded composers, including Solomon Rosowsky (1878–1962) and Lazare Saminsky (1882–1959), founded the Society for Jewish Folk Music in St. Petersburg . Engel subsequently wrote further arrangements of Jewish folklore and initiated their performances in Russia.

In 1912 he accompanied the writer and ethnographer Salomon An-ski (1863–1920) on an expedition to collect folk songs in the Jewish Paleon of Settlement . After the October Revolution of 1917, he worked at the People's Commissariat for Education and taught at the Moscow Conservatory. Engel composed the opening music for An-Ski's drama Der Dibbuk . Engel achieved great fame through his incidental music for the Hebrew version of this work, which premiered in 1922 at the Habimah Jewish Theater in Moscow.

Engel came to Germany in 1922. In Berlin he was at the foundation of the music publishing Juwal Publishing Society for Jewish music involved and took over the artistic direction.

In 1924 Engel emigrated to Palestine . There he taught at the Shulamith Music School in Tel Aviv and composed incidental music for the Ohel Theater .

Joel Engel Prize

The Joel Engel Prize of the city of Tel Aviv is named after Engel. Prize winners include a. the composers Menachem Avidom (1947 and 1956), Ben-Zion Orgad (1961) and Jacob Gilboa (1973).

Recordings (selection)

  • Joel Engel / S. An-Ski: Der Dybuk , Classic-Meets-Klezmer-Ensemble, arrangements: Irith Gabriely , text and post-poetry: Iris Anna Otto , speaker: Iris Anna Otto, recording: September / October 1994, Tonstudio van Geest, Sandhausen, Kranichsteiner Literaturverlag, Order no. TA 197, compact disc

Remarks

  1. ↑ There are different details about the date of birth. The most frequently occupied is 16./28. April.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Stuart Campbell:  Ėngel ', Julij Dmitrievič. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 6 (Eames - Franco). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2001, ISBN 3-7618-1116-0  ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
  2. ↑ Edith Gerson-Kiwi, Bret Werb:  Engel, Joel [Yuly Dmitrevich]. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
  3. ↑ Juri Vsevolodowitsch Keldysch: Engel, Juli Dmitrijewitsch . In: Juri Wsewolodowitsch Keldysch (ed.): Musykalnaja Enziklopedija . Sowetskaja enziklopedija and Sowetski kompositor, Moscow 1982 (Russian, academic.ru [accessed August 24, 2019]).
  4. ↑ Joel Engel: The Dybbuk Suite, op. 35 (1922) on Pro Musica Hebraica (English)
  5. ^ Entry on Joel Engel in the Musica Judaica by Jascha Nemtsov, [1] , accessed on November 25, 2013.

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personal data
SURNAME Angel, Joel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Engel, Julij; Engel, Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-Jewish composer, musicologist and music critic
DATE OF BIRTH 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Berdyansk
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 1927
Place of death Tel Aviv