DAVID SOLOMONOVICH SCHORR (SIMFEROPOL, RUSSIAN EMPIRE, JANUARY 15, 1867 – TEL AVIV, PALESTINE, JUNE 1, 1942)
Born in Simferopol, in a Jewish family. Parents: teacher and public figure Solomon Schorr and Dina Dukat. He studied music at home, then at the St. Petersburg Conservatory in 1880-1885 with K. Fan-Ark and V. Safonov. In 1885 he transferred to the Moscow Conservatory, from which he graduated in 1889. Schorr turned down an offer to stay at the conservatory as a teacher, as it involved baptism. He taught piano at the Elizabeth Institute in Moscow. In 1895 he was among the participants in the first Rubinstein competition. In 1892, together with violinist David Krein and cellist Modest Altshuler (since 1896 Rudolf Ehrlich played the cello instead of Altshuler), Schorr founded the “Moscow Trio” (also known as ” Schorr’s Trio”), which became famous outside of Russia. In 1907, Schorr left the trio (at that time he was replaced by A. B. Goldenweiser), but later returned to its composition, in which he remained until the collapse of the team in 1924. Since 1889, Schorr has been active in teaching and concert activities, performing in various cities of Russia. At the same time, he took part in quartet meetings of the Russian Musical Society in Moscow and St. Petersburg and taught at the Moscow Elizabethan Institute. In the early 1890s, Schorr and his brother Alexander opened a private music school in Moscow. In 1911, with the assistance of Leonid Sobinov, Schorr and his son Yevsey founded the Beethoven Institute of Musical Education (Beethoven Studio). Before the revolution, D. Schorr was also engaged in private teaching in Moscow (among his students was V. A. Sudeikina) and read lectures on musical history in the Pedagogical Society of Moscow University, in his homeland in Simferopol and other cities. In 1918 – 1925 he was a teacher (since 1919 professor) of the Moscow Conservatory in chamber ensemble and piano classes. In 1908, together with Ivan Bunin, Schorr visited the land of Israel, after which he became an activist in the Zionist movement in Russia. After the start of mass arrests of Zionists by the Soviet authorities in 1922, Schorr used his connections in the highest spheres of the Soviet party nomenclature and, with the help of L. Kamenev, achieved the replacement of the prison and exile for the arrested Zionist leaders by deportation abroad “without the right to return to the Soviet Union” and deprivation of citizenship . In total, such a measure was applied until the beginning of the 30s to about two thousand Soviet Zionists. Later, Russian Jews whose lives were saved by Schorr’s initiative planted a grove in his honor in Ben Shemen. In May 1925, Schorr and another Zionist figure, Yitzhak Rabinovich, sent a memorandum to the acting chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, P. Smidovich (part-time chairman of KomZET), as well as to the chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars A. Rykov. The memorandum proposed to stop anti-Zionist repressions, release previously arrested Zionists, allow emigration to Palestine, and allow Soviet Jews to study Hebrew as the language of a national minority. In June, Rykov met with Schorr and Rabinovich, who then participated in a meeting with the leadership of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee and the GPU. The ideas set out in the memorandum were eventually rejected by the authorities. In 1925 Schorr left for Palestine , but returned to Moscow in 1926. In 1927 he finally settled in Tel Aviv, giving concerts and lectures in different localities of the country and teaching music. In 1934, Schorr and his son Yevsey (Yehoshua) organized the Tel Aviv Department of Musical Education, and in 1936, the Institute of Musical Enlightenment and Education in Holon. David Schorr died on June 1, 1942.
Family
Wife – Rakhil Kalmanovna Schorr.
Daughter – Eva Davidovna Schorr (Evgenia; 1890, Moscow – 1940), in 1913-1922 she was married to the poet Vadim Shershenevich. Joint daughter – Irina. After emigrating, they lived in Belgium.
Daughter – Maria Davidovna Schorr. The only one of the children who did not follow her father to Palestine and remained in Moscow.
Son – Yevsey Davidovich Schorr (in Palestine – Yehoshua Schorr; 1891, Moscow – 1974, Holon, Israel) – journalist, teacher, musical figure. In 1910 he graduated from the gymnasium, at the same time he studied piano with his father. In 1911-1918 he worked at the Beethoven Institute (since 1917 he was a professor). Since 1922 – abroad, for some time he lived in France, Italy, then in Palestine. Engaged in active journalistic and social-musical activities.
Niece (daughter of pianist, teacher of the Moscow Conservatory Alexander Solomonovich Schorr, 1864-1939) – Olga Alexandrovna Schorr (pseudonym Dechart; 1894-1978), known as the secretary of the poet Vyacheslav Ivanov, the keeper of his literary heritage and the main editor of the complete collection of his works.
Cousin – pianist Alexander Germanovich Schorr (1876-1942).
TRACKLIST
WELTE-MIGNON 2086 SCHUMANN – Schlummerlied (Slumber Song) Op. 124, No. 16, Eb
WELTE-MIGNON 2088 C.P.E. BACH – Rondo, b
WELTE-MIGNON 2089 BACH-SAINT-SAENS – Gavotte from the Violin Concerto #2, b 2nd mt.
2090 BACH – Partita No. 1, Bb S. 825 Gigue
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