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Jewish ethnologist, musicologist and composer
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2015-09-19 09:52:12
A defining anthem for half the Jewish people
[…] cantor, Abraham Jacob Lichtenstein. Hearing him sing Kol Nidrei, Bruch spotted two opportunities. One was to compose a piece for cello and orchestra, of which there were very few. The other was to achieve a commercial hit. ‘The success of Kol Nidrei is assured,’ wrote Bruch when he had submitted the score to a publisher in 1881, ‘because all the Jews in the world are for it.’ Not quite all of them. Abraham Zvi Idelsohn, the founder of Jewish ethnomusicology, would describe Bruch’s Kol Nidrei as ‘brilliant’ and ‘secular’, but felt ‘the melody entirely lost its original character.’ Bruch’s Kol Nidrei is a work of two halves, the second of which bears no relation to the Yom Kippur melody. Idelsohn was absolutely right: Bruch’s work is not Jewish. Audiences, on the other hand, adore it. Robert Hausmann gave the world premiere in Liverpool and every leading cellist since, […]
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