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'''Grigori Isaakovich Kompaneyets''' (Григорій Ісакович Компані́єць, 1881-1959) was a [[History of the Jews in Ukraine|Ukrainian Jewish]] composer, choir conductor, and educator.


== Biography ==
Grigori Isaakovich Kompaneyets (Григорій Ісакович Компані́єць, 1881-1959) was a Ukrainian Jewish composer, choir conductor, and educator. He is notable for the range of his contributions to musical life in Ukraine, Russia and the Soviet Union, Palestine, and the United States.
Grigory Kompaneyets was born in [[Poltava]], [[Ukraine]]. During his childhood, his family moved to [[Rostov-on-Don|Rostov]], where he received his early musical training in the synagogue choir. In 1904-04, he took voice lessons in Milan, with the Italian tenor Augusto Brogi. In 1912, he conducted the first performance of the opera ''Samson and Delilah'' in a modern Hebrew translation, at the [[Saint Petersburg Conservatory|St. Petersburg Conservatory]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Feinberg |first=Anat |date=2023 |title=Die Erste "Erez-Israelische Oper" in "Altneuland" |journal=Aschkenas |volume=33 |issue=2 |pages=370 |doi=10.1515/asch-2023-2019 |via=JSTOR}}</ref> In 1916, he conducted an orchestra of 83 musicians for a concert organized by [[Society for Jewish Folk Music]] in [[Saint Petersburg|St. Petersburg]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Nemtsov |first=Jascha |title=From St. Petersburg to Vienna: The New Jewish School in Music (1908-1938) as Part of the Jewish Cultural Renaissance. |date=2024 |publisher=Harrasowitz Verlag |year=2024 |isbn=9783447111058 |edition=Revised and supplemented English |location=Wiesbaden, Germany |publication-date=2024 |pages=74 |language=English}}</ref> In the same year, he graduated from the St. Petersburg Conservatory. In the mid-1920s, Kompaneyets emigrated to [[Mandatory Palestine]]. He returned to the [[Soviet Union]] in the early 1930s.



From 1932 to 1934, Kompaneyets taught conducting and score-reading at the Kharkiv Institute of Music and Drama, now the Kharkiv I. P. Kotlyarevsky National University of Arts. In 1934, one of his choral compositions, ''A Regendl,'' was presented to the American choral conductor [[John Finley Williamson]], during the [[Westminster Chorus]]'s visit to the Soviet Union.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Minar |first=Patricia |date=April 25, 1936 |title="Westminster Chorus gives balanced program." |url=https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1186&context=i19301939 |journal=The Breeze (Newspaper) |volume=XIV |issue=22 |pages=3 |via=Scholarly Commons: A Repository for James Madison University}}</ref> In the same year, he began teaching at the Kyiv Conservatory; he was appointed as a professor there in 1940, a position he held until 1952.


== References ==
== References ==
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Feinberg, Anat. "Die Erste "Erez-Israelische Oper" in "Altneuland": = Übersetzung Des Sachtitels: The First Palestine Opera in "Altneuland"." Aschkenas 33, no. 2 (2023): 341-380, https://doi.org/10.1515/asch-2023-2019

Nemtsov, Jascha. From St. Petersburg to Vienna: The New Jewish School in Music (1908–1938) as Part of the Jewish Cultural Renaissance. 1st ed. Harrassowitz Verlag, 2024. http://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.16192351.

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Grigori Isaakovich Kompaneyets (Григорій Ісакович Компані́єць, 1881-1959) was a Ukrainian Jewish composer, choir conductor, and educator.

Biography

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Grigory Kompaneyets was born in Poltava, Ukraine. During his childhood, his family moved to Rostov, where he received his early musical training in the synagogue choir. In 1904-04, he took voice lessons in Milan, with the Italian tenor Augusto Brogi. In 1912, he conducted the first performance of the opera Samson and Delilah in a modern Hebrew translation, at the St. Petersburg Conservatory.[1] In 1916, he conducted an orchestra of 83 musicians for a concert organized by Society for Jewish Folk Music in St. Petersburg.[2] In the same year, he graduated from the St. Petersburg Conservatory. In the mid-1920s, Kompaneyets emigrated to Mandatory Palestine. He returned to the Soviet Union in the early 1930s.

From 1932 to 1934, Kompaneyets taught conducting and score-reading at the Kharkiv Institute of Music and Drama, now the Kharkiv I. P. Kotlyarevsky National University of Arts. In 1934, one of his choral compositions, A Regendl, was presented to the American choral conductor John Finley Williamson, during the Westminster Chorus's visit to the Soviet Union.[3] In the same year, he began teaching at the Kyiv Conservatory; he was appointed as a professor there in 1940, a position he held until 1952.

References

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  1. ^ Feinberg, Anat (2023). "Die Erste "Erez-Israelische Oper" in "Altneuland"". Aschkenas. 33 (2): 370. doi:10.1515/asch-2023-2019 – via JSTOR.
  2. ^ Nemtsov, Jascha (2024). From St. Petersburg to Vienna: The New Jewish School in Music (1908-1938) as Part of the Jewish Cultural Renaissance (Revised and supplemented English ed.). Wiesbaden, Germany: Harrasowitz Verlag. p. 74. ISBN 9783447111058.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  3. ^ Minar, Patricia (April 25, 1936). ""Westminster Chorus gives balanced program."". The Breeze (Newspaper). XIV (22): 3 – via Scholarly Commons: A Repository for James Madison University.