The Society of Jewish Folk Music is an organization created to promote the study and development of Jewish folk music in Russia - spiritual and secular.
Society of Jewish Folk Music | |
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Official language | Yiddish Hebrew Russian |
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Founder | D.A. Chernomordikov |
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Founding date | 1908 |
Liquidation | |
1924 |
The Jewish Folk Music Society was founded in March 1908 ; the board was located in the city of St. Petersburg [1] .
Members of the Society collected and processed folk songs. In 1910, the Society began publishing Jewish folk songs (by the end of 1911, 34 numbers had been released), arranged for solo and choral singing, as well as for various instruments. A collection of songs (number 89) was also published, specifically for the Jewish school and family [1] .
To popularize Jewish music, the society periodically organized appropriate concerts in St. Petersburg, and organized tours of the province for the province [1] .
Also in the capital, meetings were held at which reports were read with musical illustrations. In 1911, the company had more than 300 members [1] .
The organizer and first chairman of the society was the Russian composer, pianist, writer, diplomat, teacher and music critic David Aaronovich Chernomordikov [2] , who was also a staunch Bolshevik and a participant in the revolutionary events of 1905 ; The latter circumstance helped the organization survive the October 1917 coup and the Civil War in Russia . After Chernomordikov, the chairmen of the society were I. M. Knorozovsky and V. Mandel [3] .
The Jewish Folk Music Society ceased to exist in 1924 [3] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Society of Jewish Folk Music // Brockhaus and Efron Jewish Encyclopedia . - SPb. 1908-1913.
- ↑ Chernomordikov, David Aaronovich // The Brockhaus and Efron Jewish Encyclopedia . - SPb. 1908-1913.
- ↑ 1 2 Chernomordikov David Aaronovich