Marcus (Marc) Lewin
Vita
(DBühJ 39, 1928) Marcus Lewin, Kpllm. d. Tanzgruppe, [Saarbrücken I] Dudweilerstr. 43
(BBLd) Als Kind Klavierstudium in Riga, später am Leipziger Konservatorium; Dirigent in Berlin, nach 1933 an der Oper in Riga, 1935 emigriert nach Palästina.
(W) Marc Lavry (Hebrew: מרק לברי) (December 22, 1903, Riga – March 24, 1967, Haifa) was an Israeli composer and conductor. Born in Latvia and trained in Germany, Lavry immigrated to Palestine in 1936, where he was instrumental in developing the "Mediterranean School" of composition, that merged elements of oriental Jewish and Arab music with modern European classical music.
Lavry was born Mark Levin in Riga, Latvia on December 22, 1903. As a child, he studied piano at the Riga Conservatory of Music, where he also began composing. After graduating high school, he moved to Germany, where he earned a degree in architecture, and continued his music studies at the Leipzig Conservatory. He studied piano with Professor Robert Teichmüller, and composition with Paul Graener, and later with Alexander Glazunov. After discovering there already was an older, then more established composer and conductor named Mark Levin, he decided to change his own name to Marc Lavry.
He began his conducting career as music director of the opera house in Saarbrücken, and later, of the Tanzbühne Laban, the dance theater directed by modern dance pioneer Rudolf von Laban. In 1929, he became conductor of the Berlin Symphony Orchestra (not the more famous Berlin Philharmonic). In 1933, the Nazis, who had assumed power in Germany, disbanded the orchestra. Lavry returned to Riga, where he became resident conductor of the Riga Opera. However, as antisemitism intensified in Latvia as well, Lavry and his wife decided to emigrate to Palestine in 1935.
Lavry felt a strong connection with the emerging Jewish state. "I immigrated to Israel in 1935 and immediately felt that I found my spiritual homeland", he wrote in his autobiography. "Nowhere until arriving to Israel, did I feel that grounded. I felt that I landed where I belong and that I found a place worth fighting for. I felt that the country inspired me as a composer and that here I wrote my best compositions." He became resident composer of the Ohel Theater in Tel Aviv in 1941, and also served as conductor of the Palestine Folk Opera. There he composed the first Hebrew-language opera "Dan the Guard".
In 1948 he moved to Jerusalem to undertake the creation of the Kol Zion Lagola radio station. There, he founded the first professional choir in Israel, and was instrumental in the development of Israeli music.
In 1963, at the invitation of Haifa mayor Abba Hushi, Lavry moved to Haifa to conduct the Haifa symphony. He remained there until his death in 1967. He was survived by three children.
Q: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Lavry
(bio) https://marclavry.org/biography
Heirat 1934 vermutlich in Riga
(W) Marc Lavry, a leading Israeli composer and conductor, died here last night of a heart attack at the age of 63.
Q: https://www.jta.org/archive/marc-lavry-leading-israeli-composer-and-conductor-dead-was-63
s.a. https://www.lexm.uni-hamburg.de/object/lexm_lexmperson_00003571
s.a. https://www.performing-arts.eu/agent/gnd_128702915
s.a. https://www.filmportal.de/person/mark-lavry_0d19881f2f8347f38138d739def9f734
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Ehefrau Helena Mazoh-Lavry geb. Mazoh
Tochter Efrat Lavry-Zaklad, Harfenistin
Sohn Dan Lavry
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