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Ernest Bloch
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Ernest Bloch was a male composer, photographer, music educator, and pianist born in Geneva in 1880. He held citizenship in Switzerland and the United States. Bloch studied at the Hoch Conservatory under Émile Jaques-Dalcroze. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and taught at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Mannes College The New School for Music, Cleveland Institute of Music, and the University of California, Berkeley.
His notable works include the symphony Macbeth, Zerknirschung, Vidui, Avodath hakodesh, and Deux pièces, pour quatuor à cordes. Bloch played the violin and spoke French, English, and German. He had students including Randall Thompson, Ernst Bacon, and Ethel Glenn Hier. He died of cancer in Portland in 1959 due to natural causes.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1880
- Died
- 1959
- Works
- 85
Top works
- Zerknirschung [Vidui]
- Vibui [i.e. Vidui]
- Avodath hakodesh
- The Spiritual and artistic odyssey of Ernest Bloch
- Deux pièces, pour quatuor à cordes
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Sound
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Switzerland
- Active from
- 1880
- Active to
- 1959
Discography
- Quintet for Piano and Strings1951
- Mengelberg as Accompanist1987
- Bloch: Concerto Grosso no. 1 / Barber: Adagio for Strings, op. 11 / Grieg: Holberg Suite, op. 40 / Puccini: Crisantemi1988
- Sacred Service1988
- Complete Music for Violin and Piano, Volume I1989
- Complete Music for Violin and Piano, Volume II1989
- Piano Works (Complete), Vol. 11990
- America: An Epic Rhapsody in Three Parts for Orchestra1991
- Bloch: Schelomo / Bruch: Kol Nidrei1991
- Hanson Conducts Bloch1991
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 50,696
- Total plays
- 233,234
Tags
Ernest Bloch (1880–1959) was a Swiss composer. Bloch's early works, including his opera Macbeth (1910) show the influence of both the Germanic school of Richard Strauss and the impressionism of Claude Debussy. His mature works, including his best-known pieces, often draw on Jewish liturgical and folk music. These works include Schelomo (1916) for cello and orchestra, the Israel Symphony (1916), Baal Shem for violin and piano (1923, later version for violin and orchestra) and Avodath Hakodesh (S
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The american rheumatism association 1987 revised criteria for the classification of rheumatoid arthritis
· 1988 · cited 15,808x
- Many-body physics with ultracold gases
· 2008 · cited 7,103x
- Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
· 2012 · cited 6,794x
- Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC
· 2012 · cited 6,658x
- Carbon Dioxide Capture in Metal–Organic Frameworks
· 2011 · cited 6,195x
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Key facts
- Nearest city
- Agate Beach, Oregon
- Nrhp reference number span no
- 09000049
- Added to nrhp
- February 9, 2009
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Ernest
- Family name
- Bloch
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Geneva
- Place of death
- Portland
- Occupation
- music educator
- Educated at
- Hoch Conservatory
- Languages spoken
- German
- Genre
- symphony
- Instrument
- violin
- Image
- Ernest Bloch in 1917 at a table (retouched).jpg
- Work location
- Berkeley
- Residence
- New York City
Show 10 more facts
- date of birth
- 1880-07-24
- date of death
- 1959-07-15
- Commons category
- Ernest Bloch
- member of
- American Academy of Arts and Letters
- manner of death
- natural causes
- cause of death
- cancer
- name in native language
- Ernest Bloch
- related category
- Category:Compositions by Ernest Bloch
- place of burial
- Agate Beach
- municipal affiliation of a Swiss national
- Lengnau
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Encyclopedic overview
Bloch in 1917 Ernest Bloch (/blɒk/; German: [blɔx]; July 24, 1880 – July 15, 1959) was a Swiss-born American composer. Bloch was a preeminent artist in his day, and left a lasting legacy. He is recognized as one of the most significant Swiss composers in history. Several of his most notable compositions reflect his Jewish heritage. As well as producing musical scores, Bloch had an academic career that culminated in his recognition as Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley in 1952.
Biography
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