Sarah Feigin (1928 – 2011) was a Latvian composer who lived and worked in Israel. She composed several works for the clarinet, included a clarinet duet, three separate works for clarinet and piano, a clarinet concerto, a clarinet-string quintet, and other works for various chamber ensembles.
Sarah Feigin (1928 – 2011)
Sarah Feigin (1 July 1928 – 24 April 2011) was a Latvian music educator and composer who lived and worked in Israel.1 She was born in Latvia, and studied piano and composition at the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music originally known as the Riga Conservatory of Music. She graduated with bachelor’s and master’s degrees. She moved to Israel in 1972 and founded a Conservatory of Music in Holon in 1973, working as its director until 1983. Feigin worked for “Jeunesses Musicales d’Israel”2 from 1973 to 1990, organizing concerts for youth. Her music has been performed internationally.3,4
Sarah would teach children as well as teach at music education institutions when she lived in Israel. Her preferred instruments are organ and piano when composing music. Her work has been published by the Israel Music Institute and the Israel Composers’ League, and her pieces have been on the Israeli radio on a regular basis.5 Sarah Feigin composed pieces such as, chamber music, music for piano, educational pieces, songs for ballets, and vocal music.6
In 2000, Sarah received an award for her work “Thoughts On Playing” at the International Composition Competition in Miami, Florida.
On October 9, 2012, Feigin was included in the album Clarinet Repertoire Of Women Composers. The last title on the album is Feigin’s Fantasia for Clarinet and Piano Written in 1996, in Israel.8
In 2018, the album “Piano Works by Sara Feigin” was released. The recording focuses on her solo piano music and mostly includes either unperformed or previously unrecorded works, many based on traditional folk songs.9 The pieces are performed by British-born and Israeli-based pianist Benjamin Goodman.
For the clarinet, Feigin composed several notable works, all listed below. Among them are a clarinet concerto, also arranged for clarinet and string quartet, a work for two clarinets and piano, a trio for clarinet, flute, and piano, three accompanied works for clarinet and piano, one of which, Fantasia, she also arranged for clarinet and string quartet and for two clarinets and piano.
You may purchase most of her clarinet works from the Israel Composers’ League.
Works for Clarinet
Fantasia (Fantasy) | 1996
Clarinet and piano
Publisher: Israeli Composers League
Purchase option 1: Israeli Composers’ League
Nigunim | 1998
Clarinet and piano
Publisher: Israeli Composers’ League
Purchase option 1: Israeli Composers’ League
Reflections on a Niggun | 1999
Clarinet and piano
Publisher: Israeli Composers’ League
Purchase option 1: Israeli Composers’ League
Fantasia (Fantasy) | 1999
2 Clarinets and piano
Publisher: Israeli Composers’ League
Purchase option 1: Israeli Composers’ League
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References
- “Feigin”. furore-verlag. Retrieved 9 June 2015.
- Jeunesses Musicales International
- Dees, Pamela Youngdahl (2004). A Guide to Piano Music by Women Composers: Women born after 1900.
- Sadie, Julie Anne; Samuel, Rhian (1994). The Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers (Digitized online by GoogleBooks). Retrieved 8 December 2010.
- http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article/grove/music/2020055?q=sarah+feigin&search=quick&pos=1&_start=1#firsthit
- Women Opera Composers: Biographies from the 1500s to the 21st Century.
- Jump up to:a b “Compositions”.
- “Clarinet Repertoire Of Women Composers”.
- https://www.gramophone.co.uk/review/feigin-piano-works
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