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Bidding Information
Lot #    19720
Auction End Date    1/8/2008 12:17:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Judische Kompositionen fur eine Singstimme ...
Author    [Music] Janot S. Roskin
City    Berlin
Publisher    Musikalen Druckerei G.m.b.H.
Publication Date    1917?
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description
   5 pp.; [3]ff. musical scores port., 280:197 mm., usual age staining, not bound, wrappers present.
          
Paragraph 1    Musical scores for Jewish music for voice and piano by Janot S. Roskin. The cover has a drawing of M. Lebenheim which is dated 1917.

The second cover is the same as the first with musical scores for other songs inside.

          
Detailed
Description
   Janot S. Roskin (1884-1946)was a composer who already in his yourh worked as a choirist. On his journeys in his homeland region he collected folksongs.He went to Berlin and founded a conservatory and in 1916 founded a muscial publishing house which in 1921 took the name Hatikva, and with this enterprise he exerted himself in the goal of spreading Jewish music

He published many collections of Jewish songs and folksogs.He also led the choir of the Jewish reform synagogue and was active as a composer. He wrote compositions for piano and for voice. He went into exile to the US and created the musical publishing house Hatikva in the United States in 1941. He died in Indianapolis in 1946. His company relocated to various cities and was eventually taken over by Transcontinental Music Publishers. .

          
Reference
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   http://cmslib.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/lexm/object/lexm_lexmperson_00001085
        
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Germany:    Checked
  
Subject
Music:    Checked
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    German
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica