Philip Herschkowitz
Philip Moisejewitch Herschkowitz ( Romanian Filip Herşcovici; Russian Филипп Гершкович , Filipp Gershkovich ; born September 7, 1906 in Iași , Romania; † January 5, 1989 in Vienna ) was a composer and music theorist.
After studying in Iași, he moved to Vienna, where he became a pupil of Alban Berg in 1928 and Anton Webern from 1934 . In 1939 he returned to Romania, but fled to the Soviet Union in 1940, first to Chernivtsi in Bukovina . After the start of the German war of conquest against the Soviet Union, he fled further and came to Tashkent in Central Asia. In 1946 he moved to Moscow. In 1949 he was expelled from the Soviet composers' association, to which he had belonged since 1942, during an anti-Semitic campaign. As a consistent representative of twelve-tone music, he was denied public impact as a composer. He gave private lessons and exerted a great influence on a generation of composers, including Edison Denisov , Alfred Schnittke , Sofia Gubaidulina , Boris Tishchenko and Dmitri Smirnov . In 1987 he moved to Vienna, where he died two years later.
Works
Almost all of the compositions that have survived date from after 1945:
- Piano works
- Songs
- Chamber music
- Chants with orchestra accompaniment
4 volumes with essays on music theory were published from the estate.
literature
- Filip Herşcovici in the Munzinger archive , accessed on May 8, 2018 ( beginning of article freely accessible)
- Yuri Kholopov: Philip Gershkovich's search for the lost essence of music . In: Valeria Tsenova (Ed.): Underground Music from the Former USSR . Harwood Academic Publishers, Amsterdam 1997, ISBN 3-7186-5821-6 , pp. 21-35 .
Web links
- Dimiter Muftieff: Philip Herschkowitz in the Lexicon of Persecuted Musicians of the Nazi Era (LexM), as of March 30, 2017
- musica-reanimata
- Elisabeth Th. Hilscher: Herschkowitz, Philip. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-7001-3044-9 .
- exile archive
Individual evidence
- ↑ Klaus Linder: Herscovici, Filip. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 8 (Gribenski - Hilverding). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2002, ISBN 3-7618-1118-7 ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
- ↑ Dmitri Smirnov: A Geometer of Sound Crystals: A book on Philip Herschkowitz . Ernst Kuhn, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-928864-99-8 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Herschkowitz, Philip |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Herschkowitz, Philip Moisejewitch |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Romanian composer and music theorist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 7, 1906 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Iași , Romania |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th January 1989 |
| Place of death | Vienna |