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Alexander Veprik
6+ albums
Russiarussian
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Alexander Moiseyevich Veprik, also Weprik, (Russian: Александр Моисеевич Веприк; 23 June 1899 in Balta, Ukraine – 13 October 1958 in Moscow) was a Russian (Ukrainian; Soviet) composer and music educator. Veprik is considered one of the greatest composers of the "Jewish school" in Soviet music. Veprik grew up in Warsaw and studied piano with Karl Wendling at the Leipzig Conservatory. At the onset of World War I, the family returned to Russia. Veprik studied composition with Alexander Zhitomirsky (1881–1937) in the Saint Petersburg Conservatory (1918–1921) and Nikolai Myaskovsky at the Moscow Conservatory (1921–1923). Veprik was active in the musical life of 1920–1930s. In 1923 he was active in the creation of the Society for Jewish Music, a focal point for Jewish composers in Moscow, and Jewish music flourished as a result of the activities of the Society. He taught at the Moscow Conservatory (1923–1941; professor from 1930; dean from 1938). In 1927 during a business trip in Austria, Germany and France, he met Arnold Schoenberg, Paul Hindemith, Maurice Ravel and Arthur Honegger. His music became well-known in Europe and the United States during this time: nearly his entire oeuvre was performed by the Berlin Radio Symphony (1928–1929). In March 1933 Arturo Toscanini conducted Veprik's Dances and Songs of the Ghetto at Carnegie Hall in New York. Veprik was arrested as a "Jewish nationalist" in 1950, maltreated in prison and then deported to the Gulag. He was released from har
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Pastorale for Orchestra
382Suite for Violin & Piano, Op. 7: II. Barocco, al rigore di tempo
143Suite for Violin & Piano, Op. 7: I. Comoditto, abbandono
114Dances and Songs of the Ghetto for Orchestra, Op. 12
115Suite for Violin & Piano, Op. 7: III. Capriccioso, ma placido
116Five Little Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 17: II. Adagio
107Two Poems for Orchestra: No. 2
68Two Symphonic Songs for Orchestra, Op. 20: No. 1, Song of Mourning
59Five Little Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 17: I. Allegro moderato
510Two Symphonic Songs for Orchestra Op. 20: No. 2, Song of Joy
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