Joel Engel (composer)

Joel Engel (* 1868 in Berdyansk, Russian Empire, now Ukraine, † February 11, 1927 in Tel Aviv, Palestine, today Israel ) was a Russian-Jewish composer, musicologist and music critic.

Life

Joel ( Yuli ) Engel studied composition and music theory at the Moscow Conservatory. After graduation, he worked for 20 years as a music critic for the daily newspaper Moskowskije Vedomosti ( Moscow News ). He also published the Russian edition of the Riemann music lexicon.

In 1900, Angel began collecting Jewish folk songs in Russia and arrange. 1908, a group of like-minded composers, including Joel Engel, Solomon Rosowsky ( 1878-1962 ) and Saminsky Lazare ( 1882-1959 ), in St. Petersburg Society for Jewish Folk Music. Angel wrote down every subsequent edits of Jewish folklore and initiated their performances in Russia.

In 1912 he accompanied the writer and ethnographer Solomon An- ski ( 1863-1920 ) on an expedition to collect folk songs in the Jewish Pale of Settlement. Then angels composed the opening music to On Skis drama The Dybbuk. Through his incidental music to the drama of the Jewish theater Habima Hadibuk in Moscow angel gained great notoriety.

In 1922 Engel in Germany. In Berlin, he was involved in the founding of the music publisher Juwal Publisher Society for Jewish Music and became its artistic director.

1924 immigrated to Palestine angel. There he taught at the music school Shulamith in Tel Aviv and composed incidental music for the theater Ohel.

Joel Angel Award

After Angel of Joel Engel Prize of the city of Tel Aviv is named. Prize winners are among others the composer Menachem Avidom (1947 and 1956 ), Ben -Zion Orgad (1961) and Jacob Gilboa (1973).

Recordings (selection)

• Joel Engel / S. An- Ski: The Dybbuk, classic -meets - klezmer ensemble arrangements: Irith Gabriely, text and paraphrase: Iris Anna Otto, spokeswoman Iris Anna Otto, recording: September / October 1994, Tonstudio van Geest, sand Hausen, Kranichsteiner Literature Publishing House, No. TA 197, Compact Disc