Josef Tal
Josef Tal (Hebrew: יוסף טל; September 18, 1910 – August 25, 2008) was an Israeli composer. He wrote three Hebrew operas; four German operas, dramatic scenes; six symphonies; 13 concerti; chamber music, including three string quartets; instrumental works; and electronic compositions.[1] He is considered one of the founding fathers of Israeli art music.[2]
Der Sohn des Rabbiners. Ein Weg von Berlin nach Jerusalem (The Son of the Rabbi: A Way from Berlin to Jerusalem). An , 1985, ISBN 3-88679-123-8.
autobiography
Reminiscences, Reflections, Summaries, retold in Hebrew by , published by Carmel (1997), ISBN 965-407-162-2.
Ada Brodsky
Tonspur – Auf der Suche nach dem Klang des Lebens (On Search for the Sound of Life), an autobiography, Henschel Publishing House Berlin 2005, 3-89487-503-8.
ISBN
1949, 1958, 1977 – The City of Engel Prize
Tel Aviv
1957/1958 – grant for the study of electronic music
UNESCO
1981 – Foreign Honorary Membership of the "in recognition of creative achievement in the arts"
American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters
1982 – (Israel), "for his novel approach to musical structure and texture and the unfailing dramatic tension of his creations"[54]
Wolf Prize in Arts
1993 – Doctor Philosophiae Honoris Causa of "In special recognition of his unique operatic works which are evidence of his deep connection with the spirit of Judaism during various periods of history, and his achieving a synthesis between ancient Jewish tradition, and modern-day music"
Tel Aviv University
1995 – Prize
ACUM
1998 – Doctor Philosophiae Honoris Causa of The "In tribute to his rich musical legacy and in recognition of his contribution to the development of music education in Israel"
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
List of Israel Prize recipients
List of compositions by Josef Tal
Burns, Jeffrey: "Aus einem Gespräch mit Josef Tal". Zeitschrift für Musikpädagogik, no. 41, September 1987 pp. 3–9
Burns, Jeffrey: "", in IMI News, 2001/1, pp. 17–20 ISSN 0792-6413
With Josef Tal on Kurfürsterdamm
Espiedra, Aviva: "Josef Tal, Sonata for Piano", in: A critical study of four piano sonatas by Israeli composers, 1950–1979, Doctor of Musical Arts dissertation in Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, 1992 pp. 15–78
Flender, Reinhard D.: "Auf der Suche nach einer kulturellen Heimat. Stefan Wolpe und Josef Tal – Zwei Deutsch-Jüdische Komponisten aus Berlin". 1998, no. 3
Neue Zeitschrift für Musik
Hirshberg, Jehoash: "Joseph Tal's Homage to Else", in Ariel – A Quarterly Review of Arts and Letters in Israel, no. 41 (1976), pp. 83–93
: The Jerusalem Diary. Music, Society and Politics, 1977 and 1979. Plumbago Books ISBN 0-9540123-0-5
Keller, Hans
Keller, Hans: "The Musician as Librettist", Opera XXXV (1984) pp. 1095–1099
Markel, Shlomo: On Notation for Electro Acoustic Music and Interactive Environment for Composition, research thesis Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Science, Technion, Haifa (1993)
Seter, Ronit: Yuvalim be-Israel: Nationalism in Jewish-Israeli Art Music, 1940–2000, PhD dissertation, Cornell University, 2004, 553 pp. (on Tal, pp. 145–152).
Seter, Ronit: "". Musical Quarterly 97:2, 238-308 (esp. "Josef Tal, Israel's Progenitor of Electronic Music", pp. 278–288)
Israelism: Nationalism, Orientalism, and the Israeli Five
: "The Dilution of National Onomatopoeias in Post-Statehood Israeli Art Music: Precursors, Contiguities, Shifts." Journal of Musicological Research 32:4, 314–345, (2013)
Shelleg, Assaf
: Jewish Contiguities and the Soundtrack of Israeli History, Oxford University Press (November 12, 2014)
Shelleg, Assaf
Tischler, Alice: A Descriptive Bibliography of Art Music by Israeli Composers. Warren, Michigan: Harmonie Park Press (1988)
Gluck, Bob and Shlomo Dubnov. "." eContact! 15.2 — TES 2012: Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium / Symposium électroacoustique de Toronto (April 2013). Montréal: CEC.
From ‘Enfant Terrible’ to Elder Statesman: Conversation with Israeli composer Josef Tal (1910–2008)
Shimoni, Uri, Moti Gerner, Shlomo Markel and Josef Tal. "." ICMC 1992. Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference (USA: San Jose State University, 1992).
Studio Report: A New Icon Musical Notation System – TAL
Website dedicated to Tal
Bibliography on Josef Tal, in Ronit Seter, "Israeli Art Music", on (accessed 23 March 2024)
Oxford Bibliographies
compiled by Claude Torres
Discography
on the Israel Music Institute website.
Score catalogue
performed by Klara Szarvas (harp) and Joseph Weissgerber (cello). On archive.org.
Lamentation, Hora and By the Rivers of Babylon
on YouTube performed by Kotaro Fukuma at the Arthur Rubinstein Piano Master Competition, May 2011 in Tel Aviv.
Sonata for Piano
on YouTube (partial) performed by Dmitri Levkovich at the Arthur Rubinstein Piano Master Competition, May 2011 in Tel Aviv.