Joseph Elgiser

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Joseph Moissejowitsch Elgiser ( Russian Иосиф Моисеевич Эльгисер , born December 29, 1929 Novij Schutschzi near Chernivtsi , then Romania ; † May 2014 ) was a Soviet or Ukrainian doctor, composer , music teacher and pianist .

Life

Joseph Moiseevich Elgiser was born in 1929 as the son of a Jewish carpenter in Novij Schutschzi (Sadgora), then a suburb of the city of Chernivtsi (today incorporated). Most of Bukovina was annexed by the Soviet Union in 1940.

After the reconquest of Bukovina in 1941, the Romanian occupiers deported him to a concentration camp in Transnistria (Romanian occupation area) in today 's Vinnytsia region , and later to a ghetto in the city of Kopaihorod , also in Vinnytsia region. After the liberation of Ukraine by the Soviet army, he returned to Chernivtsi, which was now Soviet again, in 1944.

He first studied medicine at the Chernivtsi Medical Institute and then practiced for six years as a surgeon in the Grozinzy Hospital in Chotyn Rajon , Chernivtsi region.

In 1952 he began to turn more and more to music, first becoming a member of the Regional Association of Composers Chernivtsi, and later, in 2000, a member of the Composers Association of Ukraine.

In 1955 he graduated from the music school in Chernivtsi with honors. He then worked as a teacher and concertmaster in the “student palace” in this city. In 1961 he accepted the job as a music teacher for piano in the music school and taught there for more than 30 years "methodology of piano playing" . In 1965 he completed his training at the PI Tchaikovsky Academy of Music in Kiev . He worked with well-known musicians such as Mstislaw Rostropowitsch , Dmytro Hnatjuk , Marija Stefjuk, Anatoli Solovyanenko , Oleg Kryssa and Pablo Karmaljuk. His own concert activities were initially limited to the concert halls of Eastern Europe and took him to Kiev and Moscow. After the political change, the music managements of western countries took notice of him and invited him to concerts in Vienna, Venice, Taormina, Valetta and the Austrian festival town of Ossiach. He emerged as a prize winner from several festivals.

Between 1998 and 2001 he organized and designed a series of historical-musical evenings in various halls of the city in Chernivtsi. He played a total of over 400 works by Bach, Schubert, Schumann, Chopin, Mozart, Brahms and Weber. It was not just the interpretational quality that attracted attention, but also the enormous memory capacity: he played all works freely from his head.

Elgiser was known in Ukraine as a composer, musicologist, regular author of newspaper articles and reviews, and author of articles in the Ukrainian Musical Dictionary . He has composed more than 200 piano and orchestral works, numerous chamber music works, around 70 songs, romances, choral and other vocal works, some with his own texts. Since 2008, the composer has also been known in Germany under the name "Ölgießer" or "Ohlgießer". Some compositions are summarized in Jewish Music, Volume I. It contains topics from dances like the Freylech (happy) to memories of the camp.

Prizes and awards

• Vorobkevich Prize
• 1999: Honored Artist of Jewish Culture in Ukraine
• 199: UNESCO golden medal , title "The golden name of world culture"

literature

• Chernivtsi heads - short biographies of important Bukovinians (= Chernivtsi small writings; issue 18). Innsbruck 2006, p. 50 f.
• Music from Bucovina / Musica Bucovetiae / Music from Bucovina ; Booklet for the CD, published by the traditional association “Katholische Czernowitzer Pennäler”, Innsbruck 2003

Web links

• Literature by and about Joseph Elgiser in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ weigert-berlin.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ holocaust.kiev.ua