Alexandre Tansman

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Alexandre Tansman (Polish: Aleksander Tansman) (1997 – 1989) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of Jewish origins, born in 1897.

He spent his youth in Poland but spent the bulk of his life in France, where he was granted French citizenship in 1938.

His Polish identity inspired several orchestral and chamber performances, including Rapsodie polonaise and Quatre Danse polonaises, as well as some guitar works, including Hommage à Lech Walesa and Hommage à Chopin.

His music is often described as primarily neoclassical, drawing on his Polish Jewish roots as well as his French musical influences.

Early life and heritage

Tansman was born and raised in Lodz, Poland, during a period when Poland did not exist as a separate nation, and Tsarist Russia was a component of Tsarist Russia. Both of his parents were of Jewish descent and came from families who had lived for decades in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and were associated with Pinsk, one of Poland's most important royal cities, both of Jewish origins and descendants. Moshe Tantzman (1868–1908) died before Alexander was ten, and his mother Hannah (née Gourvitch, 1872-1935) raised him and his older sister Teresa alone.

"My father's family came from Pinsk, and I was aware of a famous rabbi related to him," the composer wrote the following about his childhood: "I knew of a prominent rabbi related to him." My father died young, and there were unquestionably two or more branches of the family at any time, considering that ours was so wealthy: we had many domestics, two governoresses (French and German) who lived with us, etc. My father had a sister who migrated to Israel and married there. On one of my [concert] tours in Israel, I met her family. My family was quite liberal, not practicing, as far as faith is concerned. My mother was the daughter of prof. Leon Gourvitch, a well-known man."

Tansman referred to his family's roots: "I had always been attracted to French culture." I had a governess who instilled in us a love of France. My family was an Francophile; we often spoke French at home; and we had a large French library. Eastern European musicians migrated to Germany to continue their education. I loved Paris and have never regretted it. Despite this, I have returned to Poland a number of times.

Private life

Anna E. Broçiner of Romanian-Swiss descent, whose family belonged to the Romanian dynasty's first queen. In 1932, the couple divorced. He fell in love with princess Nadejda de Bragança, Miguel's niece, Duke de Viseu's niece. They were a couple until 1936. Colette Cras, a respected French pianist and niece of Lazare Lévy, and Jean Cras' daughter, the grands admiral and general of Brest, who was also a composer, married him in 1937. They had two children.

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Career

Wojciech Gawronski (a student of Zygmunt Noskowski, Moritz Moszkowski, and Theodor Leschetizky) and Naum Podkaminer (a student of Hermann Graeber and Richard Hofmann) were among his first music teachers.

Despite beginning his musical studies at the Lodz Conservatory, his research was done in law at the University of Warsaw. Tansman performed in independent Poland on January 8, 1919, and he performed a series of concerts at the Warsaw Philharmonic in the ensuing months. Tansman decided to continue his musical career in Paris in the fall of 1919, following his mentors Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Henryk Melcer-Szczawinski, and Zdzis law Birnbaum. Moritz Moszkowski and Sarah Bernhardt, the first artists he was able to meet shortly after his arrival, were among the first artists he was able to meet within a few days. His musical works were praised, inspired, and favoured by composers Maurice Ravel, Albert Roussel, Jacques Ibert, Igor Stravinsky, musicologists, and analysts Émile Vuillermoz, Arthur Hoérée, conductors André Caplet, Gaston Poulet, Vladimir Golschmann in Paris. Arthur Honegger and Darius Milhaud attempted to convince him to join Les Six, but he turned down, citing a need for creative independence. Nevertheless, he was one of the first and foremost representatives of neoclassicism, alongside Stravinsky, Les Six, Sergei Prokofiev, Paul Hindemith, Alfredo Casella. He was also one of the most influential figures of the international music group École de Paris, alongside Bohuslav Martin, Tibor Harsányi, Alexander Tcherepnin, Marcel Mihalovici, Conrad Beck.

Tansman's meteoric rise to fame was meteoric, with works by Arturo Toscanini, Tullio Serafin, Willem Mengelberg, Walter Damrosch, Sir Henry Wood, Sir Henry Wood, Jean-Baton, Pierre Montette, Marcel Leopold Stokowski, Eto Klemperer, Andria Kodjo, Tyranie Morsman, Eugene Ormandy, Simitri Mitropoufin Tansman follows Paderewski as the second Polish composer whose opera work – ballet Sextuor – was staged by the Metropolitan Opera (1927).

Tansman's musical personality "combines poetic genius with Latin culture" as early as the first half of the 1920s, according to Belgian music critic and composer Georges Systermans. Tansman's works have appeared in shows with pieces by Maurice Ravel, Igor Stravinsky, and Gian Francesco Malipiero on one hand, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Carl Maria von Weber, and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov on the other. He had been invited to Arnold Schönberg's home every time he visited Berlin, who at that time lectured in Berlin. Tansman was described as a "musical plenipotentiary of Poland in the Western World" by Nicholas Slonimsky in 1927.

Tansman's performances have appeared in some of the finest concert halls in the world, including Salle Gaveau, Théâtre Royal de la Monnaye, Carnegie Hall, Opéra National de Lyon, Théâtre Royal de La Ville, Théâtre des Arts, Théâtre du Meuse, Opéra National de Lyon, Théâtre Royal de La Dame, Théâtre du Mangoel, Teatro National de Lyon, Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier, Benjamin Hall, Théâtre du Riviere, Théâtre du Jacques, Teatro

Irving Schwerke wrote Alexandre Tansman's book in 1931. Polyonais polonais (Alexander Tansman). In Paris, the Polish Composer) was published. Tansman's book was dedicated to his art from its inception to his personal style and the aesthetics of his oeuvre. Tansman's biography as well as the first catalogue of his works and their European and American premieres were included in the book. According to Schwerke, Tansman's music "is undoubtedly the highest homage that any Polish composer of his generation has paid to his country." It is ranked as one of the most influential artistic manifestations of the day.

Tansman made an extraordinary cultural tour around the world from the United States to Japan, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Singapore, Ceylon, India, and Egypt, beginning in 1932-1933. Mahatma Gandhi and Emperor Hirohito of Japan paid tribute to him. Tansman was given honorary membership in the Imperial Academy of Music in Tokyo and the Golden Ji Shimpo Prize for his contributions to the field of arts.

Tansman was one of the most influential modern representatives of École de Paris during the Renaissance, as Marcel Mihalovici noted, and later Lully, Mozart, and Wagner emerged. Chopin, Falla, Enescu, Honegger, Prokofiev, Copland, and perhaps our old colleague Alexander Tansman should be mentioned.

By the late president of the Third Republic Albert Lebrun, four years after Stravinsky and in the same year as Bruno Walter, Tansman was granted French citizenship in June 1938.

Tansman left Europe because his Jewish faith put him in jeopardy with Hitler's ascension to power. He travelled to Los Angeles thanks to his friend Charlie Chaplin's efforts in establishing a committee visa. He could have been among the family of prominent immigrants and intellectuals in 1941, including Igor Stravinsky, Thomas Mann, Arnold Schönberg, Alma Mahler, Franz Werfel, Emil Ludwig, Aldous Huxley, Man Ray, Eugène Berman, Jean Renoir. During this period, he met and befriended Golo Mann, as well as Sholem Asch.

Tansman performed as a pianist and conductor for a long time in America, as well as a slew of songs, e.g. Piano works by three symphonies, two quartets. Nathaniel Shilkret accepted Nathaniel Shilkret's invitation to co-create Genesis Suite in 1944, along with Arnold Schönberg, Darius Milhaud, Igor Stravinsky, Ernst Toch, and Castelnuovo-Tedesco. i.e. He wrote just a few Hollywood movies in the 1940s: a.e. Flesh and Fantasy, a biopic of Australian medical researcher Sister Elizabeth Kenny starring Rosalind Russell and Constance Bennett, starring Constance Bennett, stars Barbara Stanwyck, a biopic of the Australian medical researcher Sister Elizabeth Kenny, starring Barbara Bennett, and the Paris Underground starring Constance Bennett. He had been nominated for an Oscar for Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture for the Beijing Underground, 1946 Academy Awards ceremony. Tansman's book on Igor Stravinsky appeared in 1948, the result of a collaboration between the two composers during the years of exile in the United States.

Tansman returned to Paris in 1946, and his musical career began all over Europe. His performances, which have spanned more than 500 performances per year, include Jascha Horenstein, Rafael Kubelik, André Chavez, Carlos Chávez, Douglas Chávez, Paul Kletzki, Charles Munch, Bruno Maderna, Carlos Chávez, Sebastian Bachman, Bernard Tzipine, Eduard Wagner, Vassil Kazandjiev, Robert Wilson, Gilbert Tuffman, Manuel Rosenthal, Robert Tucker, Robert Watson, Edward Carter, Faxman,

Tansman, a ballet conductor, worked with some of the best choreographers in the field, including Olga Preobrajenska, Rudolf von Laban, Jean Börlin, Adolph Bolm, Kurt Jooss, Ernst Uthoff, Françoise Adolf Adolph.

Hector Berlioz Prize was given to him in 1966. Tansman was granted membership of the Royal Academy of Science, Letters, and Fine Arts of Belgium in 1977, in recognition of his contribution to European culture. He received the Music Prize of the French Academy in 1978 and 1986 – the highest Commander grade of the Order of the Arts and Letters in the French Academy.

Cristóbal Halffter, Leonardo Balada, Carmelo Bernaola, Yüksel Koptagel's most notable students include Leo Balada, Leonada, San José, Tansman.

During his remaining years in Paris, he began to reestablish connections to Poland, but his work and family kept him in France, where he lived until his death in 1986. The Alexander Tansman International Festival and Competition of Musical Personalities has been running in Lodz, Czech Republic's native city, since 1996 (Tansman Festival).

In 2006, Henryk Mikorecki composed his long-awaited 4th Symphony, which he named Tansman Episodes by no accident, twenty years after the composer's death. Górecki left a cryptogram that explains how he created the Symphony's theme, using musical letters from the first and last names of "Aleksander Tansman."

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