Richard Farber
Richard Michael Farber (born December 4, 1945 in Washington, DC ) is an Israeli composer of American origin.
Life
Richard Farber attended the Hebrew Academy of Washington School in Washington, DC . As a member of the Habonim , at the age of nineteen he followed the Zionist appeals and moved to Israel . There he studied from 1965 at the Rubin Academy of Music and Dance and also graduated in 1970 in musicology from Tel Aviv University . His teachers included Yitzhak Sadai , Noam Sheriff , Haim Alexander , Edith Gerson-Kiwi, and Yosef Tal . In Israel he wrote stage music for various theaters.
Faber lives in Tel Aviv and has also been working in Europe since the 1980s, primarily in Germany due to the German culture promotion system. The WDR in Cologne has repeatedly commissioned him to compose and has premiered his compositions. Faber has staged a number of theater performances, he has composed music for theater and radio plays. Farber's first ballet, Mann im Schatten , was first performed in 1992 in the choreography by Renato Zanella from the Stuttgart Ballet .
Farber is a collector of antique textiles. The German Textile Museum in Krefeld showed its collection of Asian garments in 1996.
Works (selection)
- prose
- Encounters with red-haired women. A report , Vienna: Edition Maioli, 1983
- Opera
- Who knows where Polyphonia is? : Opera in 2 acts . Text and Music by Richard Farber. Piano score by Ali N. Askin. Munich: G. Ricordi approx. 1990
- Dracula and the Ballerina in Chains . 1994, Pfalztheater
- The devilish triangle . 1996, Theater Krefeld
- Operation midnight . 2002, Bonn Opera
Web links
- Literature by and about Richard Farber in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Richard Farber in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Richard Farber in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Richard Farber , website
Individual evidence
- ^ Richard Farber , website
- ^ Oriental Textiles: Oriental textile art . Catalog for the exhibition Embroidery from Central Asia. Richard Farber Collection . Krefeld, 1996
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Farber, Richard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Farber, Richard Michael (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th December 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Washington, DC |