Alberto Hemsi - Wikipedia
Alberto Hemsi (27 June 1898 – 8 October 1975) was a composer of the 20th century classical era. His work in the field of ethnomusicology and integration of Sephardic melodies has been noted as parallel to Béla Bartók's collection of traditional Hungarian music and consequent integration to his music.
Alberto Hemsi: A Five-Hundred-Year Journey | Niv Mag
Alberto Hemsi, age 20. Photo credit: Institut Européen des Musiques Juives. Hemsi appears to have been one of those extraordinary individuals who thrive wherever they are planted.
Alberto Hemsi: Collector and Composer of the Coplas Sefardies
Alberto Hemsi (1898, Turgutlu, Turkey - 1975, Paris, France), a 20th century composer born in Turkey, dedicated his life’s work to collecting and promoting the music of the Sephardic Jews.
Hemsi, Alberto (1898-1975) - Institut Européen des Musiques Juives
Between 1920 and 1923, Alberto Hemsi taught theory, piano and choral singing in Izmir. From 1924 to 1927, he settled down in Rhodes, gave courses and started ethnographic and folkloric research, especially among old women and cantaderas, semi-professional singers, renowned for their beautiful voice, who were invited by families to sing during ...
The Alberto Hemsi Collection - Institut Européen des Musiques …
Alberto Hemsi was one of the first composers to collect music from the Sephardi Jews of the former Ottomane empire, and to use it in many of his works. The records of this exceptional patrimonial collection have been done by Hervé Roten …
Hemsi (Chicurel), Alberto
Oct 7, 2024 · Italian composer, ethnomusicologist and music publisher. After education at the Alliance Israélite Universelle in Turgutlu, from 1907 he attended the school of the Société Musicale Israélite in Izmir, studying composition with …
Alberto Hemsi | jewishmusic
Worked as musical director in various synagogues in Egypt (1927-1957) and in France (from 1958). Collected many traditional Sephardic melodies mainly from Turkey and Rhodes, some he published in his Coplas Sefardies (Alexandria-Paris, 1932–1973), and some were published posthumously in Cancionero Sefardi (Jerusalem, 1995).
ARC Ensemble Uncovers Hidden Treasure: The Music of Alberto Hemsi
Oct 14, 2022 · The ensemble has uncovered another worthy candidate in the composer and ethnomusicologist, Alberto Hemsi, who was born in 1898 in Anatolia, then part of the Ottoman Empire and now Turkey.
Alberto Hemsi - Biography — JewAge
Alberto Hemsi (27 June 1898 – 8 October 1975) was a composer of the 20th Century Classical era. His work in the field of ethnomusicology and integration of Sephardic melodies has been noted as parallel to Béla Bartók's collection of traditional Hungarian music and consequent integration to his music.
Alberto Hemsi - Classical Music Daily
Returning home in 1919, he began to collect folk music of the Hispano-Judaic tradition, collecting chants from throughout the former Ottoman Empire, attempting to harmonise them for piano - difficult because they were monophonic and modal - and publishing them as his Coplas Sefardies.