Leo Zeitlin ( Lev Markovich (Leib Mordukhovich) Zeitlin ; English Leo Zeitlin ; November 25 ( December 7 ), 1884 , Pinsk - July 8, 1930 , Long Island ) - Russian [1] , and later American [2] Jewish composer, violinist and pianist, teacher, folklorist.
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| Birth name | Leib Mordukhovich Zeitlin |
| Date of Birth | November 25 ( December 7 ) 1884 |
| Place of Birth | Pinsk , Minsk Province , Russian Empire |
| Date of death | July 8, 1930 (aged 45) |
| Place of death | Long Island , New York , USA |
| A country |  Russian empire  USA |
| Professions | composer , violinist , music teacher , folklorist |
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Biography
Born into the family of a wealthy logger. Got a traditional Jewish religious education. He studied the violin under the local klezmer Berl Fiedler. Since 1895, he studied violin at the school of the Imperial Musical Society (the future Odessa Conservatory ) under the guidance of E. Mlynarsky . Since 1904 he studied at the St. Petersburg Conservatory (which he graduated in 1910).
Since 1910 - the first violin in the orchestra of the Musical-Historical Society ("Count Sheremetyev Orchestra"), at the same time took part in the "Society of Jewish Folk Music". In the period from 1917 to 1921 he was the conductor of the local symphony orchestra in Yekaterinoslav . Since 1921, he was the conductor of the Vilnius Jewish Orchestra, took part in the creation of the local Jewish National Conservatory.
From 1923 until the end of his life he lived and worked in New York , wrote a number of popular Yiddish songs.
Artwork
- Eyli, eyli
- Iber di hoyfn
- Patsh, patsh kikhelekh
- Shoyn nito der nekhtn
- Der kadish fun reb Leyvi-Yitskhok
Notes
- ↑ Paula Eisenstein Baker . Leo Zeitlin's Eli Zion: An Attribution Chiseled in Stone.
- ↑ My own conclusion is that Rothmuller knew (perhaps from Saminsky's article) that it was Leo Zeitlin who wrote Eli Zion, and he knew (either from Saminsky or from some other source) that Zeitlin had emigrated to the United States and died. // Yivo annual. - Yivo Institute for Jewish Research - 1996. - V. 23. - P. 249.