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SONGWRITERS For more Jewish songwriters, see also lists of Jewish-composed SONGS and MUSICALS. |
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SCORE COMPOSERS For more Jewish film music composers, see: Academy Award for Best Scoring of a Motion Picture Academy Award for Best Original Song. |
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NOTES
1. Jewish father,
non-Jewish
mother. 2. Jewish father, non-Jewish mother. 3. Amy Biancolli's recent biography Fritz Kreisler: Love's Sorrow, Love's Joy (Amadeus Press, Portland Oregon, 1998) contains an extensive discussion of Kreisler's Jewish background, which he never acknowledged and which his wife adamantly denied (see Chapter 8: "Kreisler the Catholic, Kreisler the Jew"). Biancolli cites a 1992 interview by David Sackson of Franz Rupp, Fritz Kreisler's piano accompanist in the 1930s. Rupp states that he once asked Kreisler's brother, the cellist Hugo Kreisler, about the Kreislers' Jewish background, to which Hugo responded simply, "I'm a Jew, but my brother, I don't know." According to Biancolli, Kreisler's father, Salomon Severin Kreisler (also called Samuel Severin Kreisler), a physician and amateur violinist from Krakow, was almost certainly Jewish. Fritz's mother, Anna, was a Roman Catholic, and probably an "Aryan." According to Louis Lochner's 1950 biography Fritz Kreisler, Kreisler was reared as a Roman Catholic. However, according to unpublished parts of the manuscript uncovered by Biancolli in the Library of Congress, he was baptized only at the age of twelve. The bottom line seems to be that Kreisler was at least half-Jewish and his reticence on the subject primarily an attempt to placate his highly anti-Semitic wife Harriet. ("Fritz hasn't a drop of Jewish blood in his veins!" she is said to have vehemently responded to an inquiry from Leopold Godowsky. Godowsky retorted: "He must be very anemic.") 4. See Ismerjük''oket?: zsidó származású nevezetes magyarok arcképcsarnoka, by István Reményi Gyenes (Ex Libris, Budapest, 1997, p. 145). 5. Jewish father, non-Jewish mother. See http://www.schirmer.com/default.aspx?TabId=2419&State_2872=2&composerId_2872=1389. 6. Jewish father, non-Jewish mother. 7. Jewish father, non-Jewish mother. 8. Born Irwin Michnick. Man of La Mancha lyricist Joe Darion is also Jewish, according to his entry in Marquis Who's Who in America. 9. Jewish father. 10. Jewish mother, non-Jewish father. In an interview with Francine Cohen published in the Arts and Leisure Guide of the November 4, 1994 issue of The Jewish Chronicle (London), Newley stated concerning his 'Jewish genes': "My mum's side is Jewish and so is Joan Collins's dad's side, so I suppose you could say we had a full set between us. We both always used to say that whatever talent we had came from our Jewish backgrounds." 11. Jewish mother, non-Jewish father. 12. See Broadway Babies Say Goodnight: Musicals Then and Now, by Mark Steyn (Routledge, NY, 1999, p. 87). 13. Jewish father (publisher Richard Simon), non-Jewish mother. 14. Jewish father, non-Jewish mother. In addition to Thomas Newman's father, Alfred Newman, his uncles Lionel and Emil Newman were also prominent film composers, as are his brother David and his cousin Randy Newman. 15. See Ismerjük''oket?: zsidó származású nevezetes magyarok arcképcsarnoka, by István Reményi Gyenes (Ex Libris, Budapest, 1997, p. 144). |
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