Paul Schoenfield
Paul Schoenfield (born January 24, 1947 in Detroit ) is an American composer and pianist of Jewish descent.
Life
Schoenfield began playing the piano at the age of six, and a year later he made his first composition. He graduated from Carnegie-Mellon University and received his PhD in Music from the University of Arizona .
In his music he makes use of various stylistic elements: He combines traditional-classical music with folkloristic elements, which are particularly based on Klezmer , to a new unit. In doing so, he continues the tradition of American composers, starting with George Gershwin , whose most prominent characteristic has always been the recourse to popular elements (regardless of what type they may be in the specific case). In his work so far, chamber music works and solo concerts take up most of the space; there are also piano and choral works, an opera and an oratorio . His best-known work by far is the “Cafe Music” for violin, violoncello and piano with its succinct rhythm and powerful melodies.
Paul Schoenfield was also active as a pianist nationally and internationally for a long time, but now seldom appears in public. Among other things, there is a recording of all works for violin and piano by Béla Bartók with him and Sergiu Luca .
In addition to his musical activities, Paul Schoenfield is also well versed in mathematics and Hebrew .
He has lived in the small town of Migdal haEmek in Israel since the 1990s .
Works (selection)
- Cafe Music for piano trio
- Four music videos for piano trio
- Vaudeville Concerto for Little Trumpet and Orchestra
- Slovak children's songs for flute and piano
- Fairy tales from Chelm for narrator and string quartet
- High-rock ballet for amplified violin, saxophone, bass guitar, drums, synthesizer and piano
- Four parables for piano and orchestra
- Klezmer Rondos , Concerto for Flute and Orchestra
- Five days from the life of a manic-depressive for piano four hands
- Taschyag for two pianos
- D 'vorah oratorio
- The Merchant and the Pauper , Opera
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| SURNAME | Schoenfield, Paul |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American composer and pianist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 24, 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Detroit |