Alexander Uriah Boskovich

Alexander Uriah Boskovitch (born 16 August 1907 in Cluj, † November 13, 1964 in Tel Aviv) was an Israeli composer and music educator.

Boskovitch studied in Paris with Paul Dukas and Alfred Cortot and became director of the opera house of his birth city of Cluj. In 1938 he emigrated to Palestine. Here he worked as a teacher at the Conservatory of Tel Aviv. In addition to musicians such as Paul Ben- Haim, Marc Lavry and Odon Pártos he is regarded as representative of (East ) Mediterranean style of music whose concept Max Brod in his 1951 published writing represented the music of Israel. This style is characterized by irregular metric, repetitions and variations, simplified or missing polyphony, a Jewish- Yemenite embossed melody and the preferred use of instruments such as the clarinet and oboe.

Works

  • Jewish Folk Songs, 1938
  • Adonai Ro'i for alto and orchestra, 1946
  • Canticle di Ma'alot for orchestra, 1960
  • Bal Ysrael, 1960-61

Source

  • Amaury You closel: Smothered voices: "Degenerate Music" in the Third Reich, Böhlau Verlag Wien, 2010, ISBN 9783205782926, pp. 258-59
  • Israeli Composer
  • Music teacher
  • Born 1907
  • Died in 1964
  • Man
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