Leo Zeitlin

Lev Mordukhov Tseitlin, Eng. Transcription Leo Zeitlin, (Russian Лев Цейтлин, born 25 Novemberjul / December 7 1884greg in Pinsk, .. † July 8, 1930 in New York City ) was a Russian musician, arranger and composer.

Life

Leo Zeitlin attended the music school in Odessa and the Conservatory in St. Petersburg, where he studied with Rimsky -Korsakov and Alexander Glazunov. He was a member of the Jewish Association for Ethnic music before he emigrated to the United States in 1923. There he worked as a musician ( violist and violinist ), as a composer and orchestra conductor; he also taught. In New York he was a member of the Musicians Union Local 802 and the orchestra at the Capitol Theatre on Broadway, in the most works by Wagner, Liszt, Tchaikovsky and Beethoven were played. From 1925 Zeitlin for the orchestral arrangements began to write, mostly light classical and popular titles that were transferred in Saturday's radio program Major Bowes Capitol Theatre Family. Zeitlins first package was the song When Love Sings a Song in Your Heart, which was played in 1925 by nine-member Capitol Baby Grand Orchestra. His most famous work was Eli Zion, a paraphrase on a folk theme that was listed, inter alia, by Itzhak Perlman. In 1928 he played at the Capitol String Quartet with David Mendoza, Alexander Savitsky and Bernard Nadelle. In 1929 he wrote two overtures with arrangements of popular songs; followed by five other overtures, including Palestine ( Rhapsody on Hebrew Themes ). Zeitlin, who last lived in Queens, died in July 1930.

Zeitlin is not to be confused with the Soviet violinist Lev Moissejewitsch Zeitlin ( 1881-1952 ).

The work is Zeitlins since the 1990s by Paula Eisenstein Baker, cellist and music teacher at the University of St. Thomas, explored.

Works (selection)

• Eli Zion ( Paraphrase on a folk theme and trop of "Song of Songs " ), for cello & piano
• Palestina ( Rhapsody on Hebrew Themes )
• Five Songs from the Yiddish