Shaul Berezovsky
Composer, pianist and music director
Shaul Berezovsky (Yiddish: שאול בערעזאָװסקי, Hebrew: שאול ברזובסקי, Polish: Szaul Berezowski, 1908–1975) was a Polish and Israeli composer, pianist, and music director. He composed music for productions by many of the leading figures of the Polish Yiddish Theatre of the interwar and postwar period, including Shimon Dzigan and Israel Shumacher, Moishe Broderzon, and Ida Kamińska. He was also well known as a choir director and arranger.
Biography
Early life
Berezovsky was born in Grodno, Grodno Governorate, Russian Empire (today located in Belarus) on 5 June 1908. He was born into a family of musicians; his grandfather was a Hazzan in Skidzyelʹ (a town near Grodno) and his father, Shraga-Fayvl Berezovsky, was a well known choir director and music teacher in Grodno. One of his earliest musical instructors was his own father, and after briefly studying the violin he was sent in 1916 to a local piano teacher in Grodno named Lilia Fidelman. Shaul's older brother Lyolye also became a pianist, studying at the Leipzig Conservatory and later becoming an instructor in Greece and then Israel. From 1926 to 1929 Shaul studied at the Warsaw Conservatory in Warsaw.
Music career
After finishing his schooling, he relocated to Białystok, where he began to work as a Yiddish theatre accompanist, directed the orchestra at the Apollo, and had a jazz band in the military. He also started to write music for theatre troupes such as Ararat.
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