Rosowsky, Solomon, 1878-1962

Composed 1914.--Cf. Fleisher Collection.

From the description of Chassiden = Chassidim / S. Rosowsky. [19--] (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 53883259

Solomon Rosowsky was born in Riga, Latvia on April 7, 1878. His father, cantor/composer Baruch Leib Rosowsky (1841-1919) was Oberkantor at the Great Synagogoue in Riga from 1871-1919. Solomon Rosowsky helped found the Society for Jewish Folk Music at St. Petersburg in 1908. After studies at the Imperial Conservatory with Rimsky-Korsakov, Liadov and Glazunov, he graduated in 1911. In 1920 he returned to Riga, where he founded the first Jewish Conservatory of Music. He began editing his father's musical works, publishing only one of two volumes of "Shirei Thefiloh" in 1924 with the Juwal Publication Society. Solomon Rosowsky emigrated to Palestine in 1925. As a composer, he provided incidental music for the newly emerging Hebrew language theatre. He also collected and edited an anthology of Zionist folk songs (Mi-zimrat ha-aretz = Chansons de'Erets Israel), published by Salabert in 1935. The bulk of Rosowsky's musical research was on the signs for chanting the Hebrew bible. He presented a paper on this topic in 1934 to The Musical Association in London, later publishing his findings as The Music of the Pentateuch. In 1947, Rosowsky and his wife relocated to the U.S. with the hope of publishing a book on his cantillation research. The Cantillation of the Bible was published by New York's Reconstructionist Press in 1957. Solomon Rosowsky spent his final years teaching at the Cantors Institute of the Jewish Theological Seminary and the New School for Social Research. He died in 1962.

From the description of Papers, additional, 1920-1965. (Jewish Theological Seminary of America). WorldCat record id: 58047239