----------------------- Message requiring your approval ---------------------- From: Naomi Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [ha-Safran]: Good challenge - Finnish Jewish composer
Original query:
Our music teacher has asked me to find the name, and hopefully some recordings, of a Finnish Jewish composer of liturgical and choral music who lived in the 17-18th centuries (a contemporary of Marcello). She thought the name was Pergamon. She was mistaken, but said the name is something similar. Ring a bell to anyone?] Thanks for your help, in advance, Talya Pardo Librarian Solomon Schechter Academy 514-485-0866
Talya, Except for the century, I think Pergament fits the bill for the Finnish-Jewish composer you were seeking.
MOSES PERGAMENT (1893 � 1977) Born on 21st September 1893 in Helsinki, died 5th March 1977 in Stockholm. He settled in Sweden in 1915 and became a Swedish citizen in 1918. He studied at the University of Helsinki, violin at the St Petersburg Conservatory and opera conducting at Sternsches Musik Konservatorium, Berlin. He was a self-taught composer. He spent the early years of the 1920s in Paris. He founded and directed the Orchestra of the Jewish Music Society in Stockholm and became a Member of the Royal Academy of Music in 1952.
More about his career at this website: http://www.kilpinen.org/PERGAMENT-S.htm There appears to be plenty of info on the web about recordings of his music.
Naomi Cohen Saint Joseph's University Library Philadelphia, PA
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