Joseph Kaminski

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Joseph Kaminski ( Hebrew יוסף קמינסקי; * November 17, 1903 in Odessa ; † October 14, 1972 in Tel Aviv-Jaffa ) was a Polish and Israeli composer and violinist .

Life

Joseph Kaminski was born in Odessa in 1903 as the son of the actors and actresses Esther Rachel Kamińska (1870-1925) and Abraham Isaak Kamiński (1867-1918). Soon after Kaminski's birth, the family moved from Odessa to Warsaw . In 1909 young Joseph, the younger brother of actress Ida Kamińska , began playing the violin. At the age of twelve he already performed as a soloist with the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra. In 1922 he took up violin and composition studies with Friedrich Ernst Koch at the Berlin University of Music. There he made friends with the conductor Paul Kletzki , to whom he dedicated his Israel Sketches . In 1924 he continued his studies (composition, conducting) in Vienna with Hans Gál and A. Rozsa. He then returned to Berlin and appeared as a soloist celebrated by the German press. In 1926, after the death of his mother, Kaminski went to Warsaw again, where he became the conductor of the Jewish Theater Orchestra. There he wrote u. a. Incidental music, founded a successful string quartet, with which he won the Pilsudski Prize in 1934, and was, in spite of the growing anti-Semitism ', concertmaster of the 1935 founded the Warsaw Radio Orchestra .

In 1937 he emigrated to Tel Aviv and, at the instigation of Bronisław Huberman, became concertmaster of the Palestine Orchestra, later the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra . He held this position until his retirement in 1969. He also appeared as a conductor and guest soloist. Kaminski was also the teacher and mentor of Itzhak Perlman .

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Kaminski's work includes a. Three Israel Sketches for orchestra, which use motifs from Jewish and Israeli folk music, a ballad for harp and orchestra (1943) and a violin concerto (1947–49). Perhaps best known was the Concertino for trumpet and orchestra, composed in 1940, with a humorous neoclassical attitude. His Symphonic Overture , composed in 1960 for the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, received the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra Prize. He also composed chamber music (including a string quartet , 1945) and piano works (including Triptyque , 1959).

Web links

  • Biography at: Israel Music Institute (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Uri Toeplitz:  Kaminski, Joseph. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
  2. ↑ Biography at: Israel Music Institute (English)
  3. ↑ MusicWeb International (English)
personal data
SURNAME Kaminski, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli composer
DATE OF BIRTH 17th November 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Odessa
DATE OF DEATH October 14, 1972
Place of death Tel Aviv-Jaffa