Modest Altschuler

Modest Isaakowitsch Altschuler (born February 15, 1873 in Mogilew , † September 12, 1963 in Los Angeles ) was an American cellist , conductor and film composer from Belarus .

Life

Altschuler was a student friend of Alexander Scriabin at the Moscow Conservatory . After studying music in Warsaw and Moscow After completing his cello studies, he emigrated to the USA around 1895. In 1903 he became the founder and conductor of the Russian Symphony Orchestra in New York , which he directed until 1918 and with which he made Russian music known in particular. In 1908, Scriabin's Le Poème de l'Extase was premiered in New York under his direction . Altschuler performed with well-known composers and soloists such as Rachmaninoff , Prokofiev, Mischa Elman , Josef Lhévinne and Scriabin. After the orchestra broke up at the beginning of the First World War, Altschuler moved to California, where he worked as a teacher and conductor. From 1926 to 1931 he took over the direction of the Glendale Symphony Orchestra .

Together with his brother Jakow Isaakowitsch Altschuler (* 1870), who emigrated with him to America and called himself Joe Aller there , Altschuler also composed and conducted film music, including "The Sea Hawk" (1924) or "Buffalo Bill Rides Again" ( 1947).

Filmography (selection)

1913: Spartacus (Spartaco)

literature

Igor Fjodorowitsch Belsa: Alexander Nikolajewitsch Scriabin . Verlag Neue Musik, Berlin, 1986. ISBN 3-7333-0006-8 .

Individual evidence

^ Encyclopaedia Judaica, Volume II (Alr-Az), 2nd ed., Thomson Gale, Detroit, 2007, ISBN 978-0-02-865930-5 , p. 26

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personal data
SURNAME	Altschuler, Modest
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Altschuler, Modest Isaakowitsch; Altschuler, Moisei Isaakowitsch
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American cellist, conductor and film composer
DATE OF BIRTH	February 15, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH	Mogilev
DATE OF DEATH	September 12, 1963
Place of death	los Angeles

[1] Encyclopaedia Judaica, Volume II (Alr-Az), 2nd ed., Thomson Gale, Detroit, 2007, ISBN 978-0-02-865930-5 , p. 26