Joseph Achron

Joseph Isidor Achron ( born May 13, 1886 in Łoździeje ( Lazdijai ), Russian Empire, † April 29, 1943 in Hollywood ) was a Jewish- Lithuanian, later resettled in the United States composer and violinist of Jewish origin.

Life

His father, who recognized his talent early on, taught him initially itself; later he was informed him of other teachers. At the age of seven years, Joseph Achron stepped in Warsaw for the first time to the public. Performances in the former Russian Empire followed.

In the years 1899-1904 he studied in violin with Leopold Auer and composition and music theory with Anatoli Ljadow at the Conservatory in St. Petersburg.

After completing his studies, he went to Berlin; Here he was mainly active as a violinist. However, a few years later, he returned to St. Petersburg in order to complete further studies of the theory of composition at Ljadow.

Around 1911 he began to deal with the Jewish musical culture. He joined the initiative, launched in 1908, the Society for Jewish Folk Music and was a composer working in this tradition; his first composition in this context was the Hebrew Melody, an instrumental composition for violin and piano. You should be his most famous work.

After completing military service, he worked at the St. Petersburg Jewish Chamber Theater with. In 1922 he returned to Berlin; here he headed to Michail Gnessins Jewish music publishing Ibneh. Prior to his emigration to the USA in 1925 he stayed briefly in Palestine.

In the United States he was able to establish itself as a serious composer, despite initial successful performances of his works never. His late works even met with rejection. He was for a time active in New York City at the Westchester Conservatory, where he gave violin lessons. Later he tried his breakthrough as a composer on the West Coast of the United States. However, this success was denied him.

Works

Achron's compositional output mainly includes sonatas, duets, instrumental concerts, dances, serenades, and Preludes.

  • Preludes Prelude Op 13
  • Souvenir de Varsovie op 14
  • Coquetterie op 15
  • Les Sylphides, Op 18
  • Hebrew Melody, Op 33
  • Hebrew Lullaby op 35 no. 2
  • Dance Improvisation on a Hebrew folk song, Op 37
  • Fragment mystique ( sur un théme hébraïque )
  • Shear op 42
  • Tale op.46
  • Love Dedication op 51
  • Canzonetta op 52 no. 2
  • Serenade op 17
  • Violin Sonata, Op 32
  • Dance improvisation
  • Les Aveugles, by Maurice Maeterlinck, op.47, 1919
  • Mazeltov, Shalom Aleichem from 1920
  • Kiddush Hasem, Shalom Asch, 1928
  • Golem by H. Leiwick, 1931
  • Fartog, from (?). Walter
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