Mark Kopytman

Mark Kopytman ( Russian Марк Ру́вимович Ко́пытман ; Hebrew מרק קופיטמן; * December 6, 1929 in Kamyanets-Podilskyj ; † December 16, 2011 ) was an Israeli composer and music teacher.

Kopytman first studied piano and music theory. He then completed a medical degree and later continued his musical training with Roman Simovych at the Music Academy in Lviv and with Semjon Bogatyrjow at the Moscow Conservatory . He received his second PhD in 1958 and then taught in Moscow, Alma-Ata and Chişinău.

In 1972 he emigrated to Israel and became professor of composition at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance , of which he was dean from 1974 to 1994. From 1979 he was a permanent visiting professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem . 1982–83 and 1988–89 he was visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania . In 1991 he gave lectures as a visiting professor at the Moscow Conservatory. In 1991 he founded the Doron Ensemble for 20th Century Music.

Kopytman composed a. a. two operas, orchestral works, chamber music, piano works and several ballets. He was u. a. was awarded the Koussevitzky International Record Critics Award for the orchestral work Memory (1986), the Israeli ACUM Prize for Lifetime Achievement (1992) and the Prize of the Israeli Prime Minister (2002).

Works

• Songs of Captivity and Struggle for baritone and piano (1957)
• Children's Songs (1959-64)
• Distance Beyond Distance for mixed choir (1960)
• Two Little Suites (1962, 1965)
• String Quartet 1 (1962)
• Polyphonic pieces for piano (1962–85)
• Forty Years for mixed choir (1964)
• Songs of Anguished Love for voice and piano (1964)
• Water-colors for female choir (1965)
• Casa Mare , opera (1966)
• Pieces for oboe and piano (1966)
• String Quartet 2 (1966)
• Ten Moldavian Folk Songs for mixed choir (1966–1972)
• String Quartet 3 (1969)
• Soare cu Dinitz for voice and piano (1972)
• Lamentation for flute (1973)
• For Piano (1973)
• October Sun for voice, flute, violin, piano and percussion (1974)
• This is a Gate Without Wall for voice and instrumental ensemble (1975)
• For Percussion (1975)
• Monodrama , ballet music (1975)
• Prism , ballet music (1976)
• For Harpsichord (1976)
• For Harp (1976)
• Day and Night Arise to Heaven for voice, trumpet and percussion (1977)
• About an old Tune for violin, viola, cello and piano (1977)
• Basso Recitativo for two pianos (1977)
• For Organ (1978)
• Two Poems , ballet music (1978)
• And a time for Every Purpose , ballet music (1979)
• Wings , incidental music (1979)
• Cantus I for three oboes (1979)
• Cantus II for violin, viola and cello (1980)
• Stones for mixed choir (1980)
• Chamber Scenes from the Life of Susskind von Trimberg , Chamber Opera (1982)
• Variable Structures , twelve short preludes for piano (1985-87)
• Circles (Life of the World to Come) for voice, clarinet, cello and piano (1986)
• Dedication for violin or viola (1986)
• Wno lights up? for children's choir (1987)
• Letters of Creation for voice and piano (1988)
• Eight Pages for solo voice (1989)
• To Go Away for voice, clarinet, violin, cello and percussion (1989)
• Ornaments I for two clarinets (1991)
• Chamber Music for clarinet and piano (1992)
• Kaddish for cello or viola and piano (1992)
• Ornaments II for two bassoons (1993)
• Tenero for cello (1993)
• Alliterations for piano (1993)
• Discourse I-II (Cantis VI) for oboe and string quartet (1994)
• Strain for string quartet (1995)
• Vocalise (1995)
• Three Nights for voice and instrumental ensemble (1996)
• Fermane for folk singer and three clarinets (1998)
• Misterioso-Sussurando for cello (1998)
• Passolargo for guitar (1999)
• Eight Chapters (Quartet 4) (2000)
• For Gregory , three miniatures for piano (2000)
• If There Are Seven Heavens , Twelve Miniatures for Voice and Cello (2001)
• Music for Nine for string and wind quartet (2001)
• Farewell for string quartet (2001)
• Ornaments III for flute (2001)
• Bucolics , five little pieces for children for piano (2002)
• Cantus II for string quartet (2003)
• Cantus IV (Dedication) for violin and piano (2004)

literature

• Yulia Kerinin: The Music of Mark Kopytman: Echoes of Imaginary Lines . Kuhn, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-928864-96-1 .

Web links

• Homepage of Mark Kopytman
• Short biography of Mark Kopytman ( Memento of November 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) at LAPhil 2013–14, accessed on May 1, 2018