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Joseph Cherniavsky (Yiddish: יוסף טשערניאַװסקי) (c. 1890-1959) was a Jewish American cellist, theatre and film composer, orchestra director, and recording artist.
Joseph Cherniavsky was born in 1894 in Lubni (Ukraine) into a family of klezmorim. He studied cello in the St. Petersburg Conservatory, and, at that time, jo...
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Joseph Cherniavsky (Yiddish: יוסף טשערניאַװסקי) (c. 1890-1959) was a Jewish American cellist, theatre and film composer, orchestra director, and recording artist.
Joseph Cherniavsky (1889-19 59) The cellist, band lieder and composer Joseph Cherniavsky, born 29 March, 1889 in Lubny in the Poltava district of Ukraine, is a perfect example of a musician who grew up and was trained as a klezmer, left the klezmer milieu to further his training as a classical musician, returning as a adult to klezmer and ...
Joseph Cherniavsky was born in 1894 in Lubni (Ukraine) into a family of klezmorim. He studied cello in the St. Petersburg Conservatory, and, at that time, joined the Zimro Jewish Chamber Orchestra. In 1918 he came with that group to the U.S.
Composer and conductor, educated at the St. Petersburg Conservatory (Gold Medal), and a student of Alexander Glazounov, Rimsky-Korsakov, and (in Leipzig) Julius Klengel. He toured the USA as a conductor in theatres and in concerts.
Joseph Cherniavsky. Ch. was born on 31 March 1894 in Lubny, Poltava Gubernia, Ukraine. His grandfather (the prototype for Sholem Aleichem's "Stempenyu") and his father were klezmers. He learned in a cheder and traveled around with his father to weddings and performed on the drums.
