Name Aaron Avshalomov Role Composer | Children Jacob Avshalomov | |
Died April 26, 1965, New York, United States Albums Orchestral Works, Volume 1 (Moscow Symphony Orchestra feat. conductor: Jacob Avshalomov, David Avshalomov) People also search for Jacob Avshalomov, Jan Meyerowitz, Portland Youth Philharmonic | ||
Aaron avshalomov peking hutungs 1931
Aaron Avshalomov (Russian: Ааро́н Авшало́мов; 11 November 1894 – 26 April 1965) was a Russian-born Jewish composer.
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Born into a Mountain Jewish family in Nikolayevsk-on-Amur, Russia, Avshalomov was sent for medical studies to Zürich. After the October Revolution in 1917, which made further studies in Europe impossible, his family sent him to the United States. There he married a fellow Russian émigré in San Francisco.
Less than a year later, he chose to return to China, where he entered the world of Shanghai's academia and, together with other highly qualified Jewish musicians (i.e., Alfred Wittenberg, Walter Joachim, Arrigo Foa, etc.), who had fled the Russian pogroms and revolution, trained a number of young Chinese musicians in classical music, who in turn became leading musicians in contemporary China. Between 1918 and 1947, he worked to create a synthesis of Chinese musical elements and Western techniques of orchestral composition. In 1919, his son, Jacob Avshalomov was born, who became a composer and conductor, too.
In 1947, he moved to the United States, where he already had spent three years in the mid-1920s. He died in New York.