Leo Zeitlin

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Lev Mordukhov Tseitlin , engl. Transcription Leo Zeitlin , ( Russian Лев Цейтлин , born November 25 . Jul / 7. December  1884 greg. In Pinsk , † 8. July 1930 in New York City ) was a Russian musician, arranger and composer .

Life

Leo Zeitlin attended the music school in Odessa and the Conservatory in St. Petersburg , where he studied with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Alexander Glasunow . He was a member of the Jewish Society for Ethnic Music before emigrating to the United States in 1923. There he worked as a musician (violist and violinist), as a composer and orchestra leader; he also taught. In New York he became a member of the Local 802 musicians' union and the orchestra in the Capitol Theater on Broadway, in which mostly works by Wagner, Liszt, Tchaikovsky and Beethoven were played. From 1925 Zeitlin began to write arrangements for the orchestra, mostly light classical and popular titles, which were broadcast on the Saturday radio program Major Bowes Capitol Theater Family . Zeitlin's first arrangement was the song When Love Sings a Song in Your Heart , which was played in 1925 by the nine-member Capitol Baby Grand Orchestra . His most famous work was Eli Zion , a paraphrase on a folk theme that u. a. performed by Itzhak Perlman . In 1928 he played in the Capitol String Quartet with David Mendoza, Alexander Savitsky and Bernard Nadelle. In 1929 he wrote two overtures with arrangements of popular songs; followed by five other overtures, including Palestina (Rhapsody on Hebrew Themes) . Zeitlin, who last lived in Queens, died in July 1930.

Zeitlin should not be confused with the Soviet violinist Lev Moissejewitsch Zeitlin (1881–1952).

Zeitlin's work has been researched by Paula Eisenstein Baker, cellist and music teacher at the University of St. Thomas, since the 1990s.

Works (selection)

  • Eli Zion (Paraphrase on a folk theme and trop of "Song of Songs"), for cello & piano
  • Palestina (Rhapsody on Hebrew Themes)
  • Five Songs from the Yiddish

literature

  • Paula Eisenstein Baker (ed.): Leo Zeitlin, Chamber Music (AR Editions, Inc., 2008)
  • Paula Eisenstein Baker (ed.): Leo Zeitlin, Palestina (AR Editions, Inc., forthcoming)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paula Eisenstein Baker: Leo Zeitlin's Eli Zion: An Attribution Chiseled in Stone
  2. ↑ Leo Zeitlin: Eli Zion (Paraphrase on a folk theme and trop of "Song of Songs"), for cello & piano at Allmusic (English)
  3. ↑ Portrait at Pro Musica Hebraica
  4. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from July 20, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / byaaronhoward.com
personal data
SURNAME Zeitlin, Leo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tseitlin, Lev Mordukhov
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian musician, arranger and composer
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Pinsk
DATE OF DEATH July 8, 1930
Place of death New York City