Joachim Stutschewsky

Joachim ( Yehoyachin ) Stutschewsky (Hebrew יהויכין סטוצ'בסקי, Russian Иоахим Стучевский; * 26 Märzjul / April 7 1891greg in Romny in the Poltava Oblast, Russian Empire, .. † November 14, 1982 in Tel Aviv ) was a russian- Israeli cellist, composer and musicologist.

Life

His father, Calmen - Leyb Stutschewsky, came from a family of Jewish minstrels ( Klezmorim ), was a clarinetist and managed the family orchestra in the Poltava district in Ukraine .. Even as a child he received violin lessons, but switched to the cello at age eleven. A year later, he played in the orchestra of the city of Nikolayev and also appeared as a soloist. 1909 to 1912 he studied at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Leipzig at Julius Klengel and became a member of the Jena string quartet.

After that he lived from 1914 to 1924 in Zurich and was interested in the environment Zionist circles for the first time for Jewish music. Among them was not the music of the great Jewish composers such as Meyerbeer, Mendelssohn, Halévy or Mahler understood, but the music for the " [ ... ] To preserve and maintain the Jewish peculiarities in the creation of art to the right to a figures of the Jewish way of being and to respect one's own creative need. Not to music of Jews, but about Jewish music " based on this new Jewish School in music was the musical tradition of East European Jewry from everyday life and synagogue.

Stutschewsky gave private lessons and gave many concerts in Switzerland, where he played alongside contemporary music and Jewish music for a non-Jewish audience. From 1924 he was based in Vienna and founded by Rudolf Kolisch, Fritz Rothschild ( violin ) and Marcel Dick ( viola), the Vienna String Quartet, and with the pianist Friedrich Wuhrer the Viennese duo. With these ensembles he devoted himself to the Second Viennese School compositions. In addition, he was very keen for Jewish music and worked in conjunction with the promotion of Jewish music. He organized in Vienna and many European countries concerts with this music and was a leader active in the Association for the Advancement of Jewish music. He tensed up an extensive network of Jewish music organizations, with which he made ​​Vienna the international center for Jewish music societies. He has published numerous essays on Jewish music and musicians of the New Jewish School, the relationship between Jewish music and other musical cultures. In 1936, in Vienna, a collection of essays under the title My Path to Jewish music. Thus he became the main theorist and promoter of the New Jewish School.

His recent in the 1930 four -volume work The violoncello, highly appreciated by Casals and fire man, was at the Juilliard School in New York and the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia as well as in the Soviet Union to the standard textbook.

A few days before the annexation of Austria to the German Reich in 1938 Stutschewsky fled to Switzerland, from where he then emigrated to Palestine. He was music director of the Jewish National Council and organized concerts in Tel Aviv. He traveled almost the whole country and gave lectures on Jewish and Hasidic music, which he painted with his cello. In addition, he has published essays on the development of Israeli music and performed an extensive collection activities in the field of Hasidic song good. He was active again increasingly as a composer and processed in his second creative period now also folk music of Yemenite and Sephardic Jews.

Today, his legacy is one of the largest collections of the Archive for Israeli music in Felicja Blumenthal Music Center in Tel Aviv.

Stutschewsky was married twice: Regina ( Rewekka, " Wecki " ) sham ( cellist; 1908 Zurich - 1999 London ) Julia Blindz ( Singer, 1908 Tsarskoye Selo - ).

Awards (selection)

Works (selection)

Writings

  • Studies on a new technique on the cello. Published by Schott, Mainz from 1927 to 1929.
  • The violoncello. Systematic school from inception to completion. Published by Schott, Mainz from 1932 to 1937.
  • My Path to Jewish music. Jbneh -Verlag, Vienna, 1936.
  • The Folklore of the Jews of Eastern Europe. Tel Aviv, 1958 ( in Hebrew).
  • Jewish minstrels ( Klezmorim ). Tel Aviv, 1959 ( in Hebrew translation ).
  • Hassidic Tunes, Collected and Edited by J. Stutschewsky, 3 vols, Tel Aviv from 1970 to 1973.
  • The life path of a Jewish musician. A life without compromise ( 1944-76 ) Tel Aviv, 1977 ( in Hebrew translation ).
  • Hundreds of professional articles in German and Hebrew.

Compositions

Media

  • In Hassidic Mood. Joachim Stutschewskys Compositions for cello and piano. Emanuel Gruber, cello, Michael Boguslavsky, piano. 1993 Barcode 1089-9202.
  • Eli Zion - from St. Petersburg to Jerusalem. With works by Joachim Stutschewsky including David Geringas, cello; Jascha Nemtsov, piano. 2005 hänssler CLASSIC / SWR.
  • The New Jewish High School: St. Petersburg - Moscow - Berlin - Vienna. Works by Joachim Stutschewsky include: Helene Schneiderman, mezzo- soprano; Ingolf Turban, violin; Tabea Zimmermann, viola; Jascha Nemtsov, piano. hänssler CLASSIC / SWR 2001 ( double CD).
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