Juliusz Wolfsohn (1880-1944) – Hebrew Suite for piano and orchestra op. 8

[Wheesht]

Juliusz Wolfsohn (1880-1944)

Born on 7 January 1880 in Warsaw, Wolfssohn received his first tuition at the conservatoire in his hometown with Alexander Michałowski (piano) and Sigismund Noskowski (composition), then he went to Moscow to continue his studies at the conservatoire of the Philharmonic Society. After further studies in Paris with Raoul Pugno and, briefly, in Vienna with Leschetizky and Ignacy Friedman, he settled in the Austrian capital in 1906, where he quickly made a name for himself as an excellent performer of Chopin. He played concert tours in Europe and the United States (in 1926) and was also active as teacher (one of his pupils was Ignatz Waghalter) and as music reviewer for Austrian and Polish newspapers. After the "Anschluss" of Austria into Nazi Germany in 1938 he was forced to flee and managed to reach the Netherlands first and then the United States. He died in New York on 12 February 1944.
 
As a composer he worked in the field of Jewish music exclusively.

His Hebrew Suite op. 8 was first published for piano in 1926, then in an orchestrated version in 1928. This was released in 2024 on a CD entitled 1927-1929 Brücken aus dem Gestern - Orchesterwerke jüdischer Komponisten. In addition to this work by one of the 'Last Romantics: Jewish Composers of Interwar Europe' (title of a 2011 concert by Jascha Nemtsov and friends) the album also also pieces by Jaromir Weinberger –  "Weihnachten", music for large orchestra and organ – and short scenes for silent movies by Werner Richard Heymann. The first piece on the disc, however,  "Der Dybuk" by Bernhard Sekles, is outside the remit of this forum.
The full album, released by [url="http://Born on 7 January 1880 in Warsaw, Wolfssohn received his first tuition at the conservatoire in his hometown with Alexander Michałowski (piano) and Sigismund Noskowski (composition), then he went to Moscow to continue his studies at the conservatoire of the Philharmonic Society. After further studies in Paris with Raoul Pugno and, briefly, in Vienna with Leschetizky and Ignacy Friedman, he settled in the Austrian capital in 1906, where he quickly made a name for himself as an excellent performer of Chopin. He played concert tours in Europe and the United States (in 1926) and was also active as teacher (one of his pupils was Ignatz Waghalter) and as music reviewer for Austrian and Polish newspapers. After the "Anschluss" of Austria into Nazi Germany in 1938 he was forced to flee and managed to reach the Netherlands first and then the United States.
As a composer he worked in the field of Jewish music exclusively.

His Hebrew Suite op. 8 was first published for piano in 1926, then in an orchestrated version in 1928. This was released in 2024 on a Rondeau CD entitled "1927-1929 Brücken aus dem Gestern - Orchesterwerke jüdischer Komponisten". In addition to this work by one of the 'Last Romantics: Jewish Composers of Interwar Europe' (title of a 2011 concert by Jascha Nemtsov and friends) the album also also pieces by Jaromir Weinberger –  "Weihnachten", music for large orchestra and organ – and short scenes for silent movies by Werner Richard Heymann. The first piece on the disc, however,  "Der Dybuk" by Bernhard Sekles, is outside the remit of this forum. The full CD is also on Youtube.

[Alan Howe]

For those interested, here's the link to the audio excerpts at jpc:
https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/1927-1929-bruecken-aus-dem-gestern-orchesterwerke-juedischer-komponisten/hnum/11832549

(The above 'Rondeau' link doesn't work, I believe.)

[Wheesht]

Thank you, that link really does not work. I have tried, without success, to fix my post. Something weird is going on here. When I write the correct link, or even just 'is on Youtube', I cannot save this. Instead, the word 'released by' stubbornly remains in place... No idea why, I have logged out and in again, and cleared the cache, all to no avail. But this is not about the music...

[britishcomposer]

This is what you posted:

https://http//://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_ku9oMTPFuqfbYbPCRgleV-4uIQCJOFer4&feature=shared

You have to delete the folling element:
http//://

The correct link then is:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_ku9oMTPFuqfbYbPCRgleV-4uIQCJOFer4&feature=shared

[Wheesht]

My original link to YT was without the extra http//://! Still not sure what's gone wrong. Anyway, the links is there now for anybody who may actually be interested in the music...