Reviving the forgotten legacy of a brilliant Russian-Jewish composer
Grant Funds Complete String Quartets!
The Pro Musica Hebraica Foundation has donated a significant
grant for us to publish Achron's Complete String Quartets! Many of these magnificent and witty
works have never before been published -- we're here to fix that!
Our 4-volume edition will feature the complete scores and parts in addition to
newly commissioned scholarship on each individual work.
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New First Editions!We are continuing our efforts to produce high-quality first editions of Achron's unpublished sheet music - and they are already being used by musicians! Third Violin Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (Used for a 2011 Performance by Gernot Sußmuth and the Brandenburg Symphony Orchestra) Hebrew Melody for Violin and Orchestra (Used for an April 2012 Recording by Philippe Graffin and the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra) Achron-Paganini Caprices for Violin and Piano (To be recorded June 2012 by Philippe Graffin) |
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We are grateful for the financial support of our generous donors, who are helping us to
publish Achron's music, commission new scholarship, run this website, and more.
publish Achron's music, commission new scholarship, run this website, and more.
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Praise for Joseph Achron:
"He is one of our foremost modern composers and
I cannot say enough on his behalf both as a musician and as a man."
-- Jascha Heifetz (1935)
"Achron was one of the most under-rated modern composers.
The originality and profound elaboration of his ideas guarantee that his works will last."
-- Arnold Schoenberg (1945)
"Achron's Sextet... is quite the most impressive thing I've heard for years -- really very extraordinary in every respect. We must publish it, and soon, even if we have to sidetrack something else."
-- Gerald Strang to Henry Cowell (1941)