Isadore Freed

Isadore Freed ( born March 26, 1900 in Brest- Litovsk, † November 10, 1960 in Rockville Centre, New York) was an American composer.

Freed, son of a Jewish family from Belarus, came at the age of three years with his family to Philadelphia. He studied until 1918 Music at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1923, he took several months piano lessons with Josef Weiss in Berlin. 1926 was the first performance of compositions Freed by the Friends of Chamber Music held in Philadelphia.

From 1928 to 1933 studied in Paris Freed composition with Ernest Bloch, Vincent d' Indy and Nadia Boulanger. After his return to the U.S. he founded the Philadelphia Chamber Orchestra and the Composers' Laboratory. The Laboratory has allowed young composers to bring chamber music to the performance.

Since 1937, Freed taught music at Temple University and took a post as organist and choir director at Temple Israel Keneseth in Philadelphia. In 1944 he became head of the Composition Department at the Julius Hartt Musical Foundation in Hartford, on whose behalf he 1946, the Opera The Princess and the Vagabond wrote.

In 1939 Freed's first liturgical work Sacred Service for Shabbat Morning. Since 1951 he has taught at the Hebrew Union School of Sacred Music newly established. From 1942 to 1944 he was president of the Jewish Music Forum, he also served on the board of the Jewish Liturgical Society and the Hebrew Union College of Sacred Music. 1958 appeared his writing Harmonizing the Jewish Modes.

Works

  • Vibrations, Ballet, 1928
  • Homo Sum, opera, 1930
  • String quartet, 1931
  • String quartet, 1932
  • Jeux de timbres, 1933
  • String quartet, 1937
  • Sacred Service for Sabbath Morning, 1939
  • Trio for Flute, Viola and Harp, 1940
  • Symphony No.. 1, 1941
  • Triptych for Violin, Viola, Cello and Piano, 1943
  • Appalachian Symphonic Sketches, 1946
  • Festival Overture, 1946
  • Passacaglia for Cello and Piano, 1947
  • The Princess and the Vagabond, Opera, world premiere 1948
  • Wind Quintet, 1949
  • Symphony No.. 2, 1951
  • Rhapsody for Trombone and Orchestra, 1951
  • Violin Concerto, 1951
  • Cello Concerto, 1952
  • Concertino for English Horn and Orchestra, 1953
  • Oboe Sonatina, 1954
  • Hasidic Service, 1954
  • American composer
  • Composer of classical music ( 20th century)
  • University teachers (Temple University)
  • Born 1900
  • Died in 1960
  • Man
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