Books
The published books and articles by and about Ernest Bloch on this page are listed with the most recent publication at the top.Ernest Bloch related books
Ernest Bloch: Composer in Nature's University, Dr. Frank Jo Maitland Geltner, Dr. Alexander Knapp and members of Bloch family, Original 2005 version by Nancy Steinberg, Ernest Bloch Legacy Committee, Lincoln County Historical Society, July 2023
Dr. Frank Jo Maitland Geltner, Dr. Alexander Knapp and members of Bloch family.
Original 2005 version Oregon Coast Council for the Arts, by Nancy Steinberg
Ernest Bloch Legacy Committee
Lincoln County Historical Society, July 2023
Ernest Bloch Studies, ed Alexander Knapp / Norman Solomon, CUP 2016
Ernest Bloch Studies
Edited by Alexander Knapp
School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Norman Solomon
The Oriental Institute, University of Oxford
Ernest Bloch left his native Switzerland to settle in the United States in 1916. One of the great twentieth-century composers, he was influenced by a range of genres and styles – Jewish, American and Swiss – and his works reflect his lifelong struggle with his identity. Drawing on firsthand recollections of relatives and others who knew and worked with the composer, this collection is the most comprehensive study to date of Bloch’s life, musical achievement and reception. Contributors present the latest research on Bloch’s works and compositional practice, including studies of his Avodath Hakodesh (Sacred Service), violin pieces such as Nigun, the symphonic Schelomo, and the opera Macbeth. Setting the quality and significance of Bloch’s output in its historical and cultural contexts, this book provides scholarly analyses as well as a full chronology, list of online resources, catalogue of published and unpublished works, and selected further reading.
• Essays by leading scholars on Bloch cover all periods of his creative output and its reception around the world • Offers unique insights, through firsthand knowledge, into the composer’s character and personal development • Provides a reliable and comprehensive resource for Bloch and his music, correcting errors in previous sources.
CONTENTS
Foreword: reminiscences of my grandfather Ernest Bloch, II; Chronology; Alphabetical list of Bloch’s published and unpublished works Alexander Knapp; Bloch resources: recordings in the age of the Internet Stanley Henig; Introduction Norman Solomon; 1. From Geneva to New York: radical changes in Ernest Bloch’s view of himself as a ‘Jewish composer’ during his twenties and thirties Alexander Knapp; 2. The ‘suffering and greatness’ of Ernest Bloch: concepts of the composer as genius Klára Móricz; 3. Bloch, Wagner and creativity: refutation and vindication Malcolm Miller; 4. Sacred service: the mass Bloch never wrote, the two that Leonard Bernstein did write, and Shulamit Ran’s Credo/Ani Ma’Amin David Schiller; 5. Oregon years: the man and his music David Z. Kushner; 6. ‘The future alone will be the judge’: Ernest Bloch’s epic journeys between Utopia and Dystopia Philip V. Bohlman; 7. The reception of Bloch’s music in Palestine/Israel to 1948 Jehoash Hirshberg; 8. Bloch’s reception and his standing in Israel since 1954 Zecharia Plavin; 9. A performance history of Bloch’s opera Macbeth: Paris 1910-Manhattan 2014 Stanley Henig; 10. King Solomon and the Baal Shem Tov: traditional elements in Bloch’s musical representation of two iconic personalities from Jewish history Alexander Knapp; 11. Postscript: the legacy Norman Solomon.
CONTRIBUTORS
Ernest Bloch, II, Alexander Knapp, Stanley Henig, Norman Solomon, Klára Móricz, Malcolm Miller, David Schiller, David Z. Kushner, Philip V. Bohlman, Jehoash Hirshberg, Zecharia Plavin
Agate Beach: Helen Johnston Kintner, 2009
Jewish Identities, Klara Moricz, University of California Press, 2008
Jewish Identities
Jewish Identities: Nationalism, Racism, and Utopianism in Twentieth-Century Music
Klara Moricz
University of California Press, 2008
Berkeley and Los Angeles, California
ISBN 978-0-520-25088-8
Ernest Bloch: His Life and Thoughts Joseph Lewinski/Emmanuelle Dijon. (4 Volumes in French) Slatkine 2004
His Life and his Thoughts
[French] There are four volumes written by Joseph Lewinski and Emmanuelle Dijon.
Volume I: His Life and his Thoughts
followed by an analysis of his work – 1880-1916, 794 pages
Volume II: His Life and his Thoughts
The american consecration – 1916-1930, 952 pages
Volume III: His Life and his Thoughts
The return to Europe – 1930-1938, 738 pages
Volume IV: His Life and his Thoughts
The Haven of Peace in Oregon – 1939-1959, 1040 pages
Followed by a catalogue of his work
These books are the most comprehensive collection of Ernest Bloch letters. It is rich with photos and bibliographic references.
Bloch, Schoenberg, and Bernstein : assimilating Jewish music, David M. Schiller, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003
David M. Schiller
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003
David Schiller’s study of the Jewish music of Bloch, Schoenberg, and Bernstein reveals how, in the mid-20th century, the problem of assimilation was acutely felt as the unfinished business of
Ernest Bloch Companion, David Zakeri Kushner, Greenwood Press, 2001
David Zakeri Kushner
Greenwood Press, 2001
Westport, Connecticut
ISBN: 0-313279-05-5
The Ernest Bloch Companion eludes to and explores the “Jewish Question” in a fascinating and informative journal documenting Ernest Bloch and his influence in the Jewish musical community.
The evolution of Ernest Bloch’s music is traced throughout his travels in Europe and America. A complete picture of Bloch emerges from this integrated study of his life and his music. The opening biographical chapter provides a brief, personal history from which Bloch’s career and many interests follow, including his pursuits in photography. The biographical information provides the framework for addressing the Jewish Question, a common focus of Bloch’s work. Bloch emerges, from this multifaceted study, as a composer whose music must be examined within both its Jewish heritage and in a larger, universal context. Musicians, scholars, and Bloch enthusiasts will welcome this volume examining Ernest Bloch’s life, career and major works which are enhanced throughout by musical examples. Bloch’s professional development is easily traced through the chronological organization of the book.
Ernest Bloch, Jacques Tchamkerten, Melophiles: Editions Papillor, 2001
Ernest Bloch
Ernest Bloch: ou Un prophete en son temps
Jacques Tchamkerten
Melophiles: Editions Papillor, 2001
ISBN 2-940310-07-0
Creative Spirit : Suzanne Bloch and Irene Heskes, 1976
Ernest Bloch, The Composer Speaks, Alfred A. Knopf, 1950
David Ewen, “Ernest Bloch, The Composer Speaks,” in The Book of Modern Composers (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1950), 252.
Ernest Bloch related articles
Religious Ambiguity in the Life and Works of Ernest Bloch, David Z Kushner
Ernest Bloch in San Francisco, David Z Kushner
GERMAN PARLIAMENT COMMEMORATES HOLOCAUST BY PLAYING BLOCH’S Prayer, Ben Knight, 2018
Published by Deutsche Welle on 01/31/2018
Bloch’s 1924 “Prayer”
GERMAN PARLIAMENT COMMEMORATES HOLOCAUST BY PLAYING BLOCH’S Prayer
Auschwitz survivor Anikta Lasker-Wallfisch addresses Bundestag
Lasker-Wallfisch’s speech was preceded by a musical recital of the 1924 piece “Prayer” by Ernest Bloch, with Lasker-Wallfisch’s son Raphael Wallfisch playing the cello.
Read more at http://www.dw.com/en/german-parliament-commemorates-holocaust/a-42378576
In Memoriam Ernest Bloch II, Alexander Knapp, 2018
Natalie Clein, British cellist writes a blog in The Strad, September 2018
The Strad British cellist Natalie Clein recalls her first contact with Ernest Bloch’s music and its deeper significance to her. View PDF.
Remembering Ernest Bloch (1880-1959), Robin Rausch, 2010
https://blogs.loc.gov/music/2010/01/remembering-ernest-bloch-1880-1959/
THE MAN IN THE LONG WOOLEN CAPE, Helen Johnston, 2009
See Agate Beach: Helen Johnston.
In slider at top of page.
Ernest Bloch in the USA: Alexander Knapp, 2007
Written by Alexander Knapp.
Agate Beach News 1941 - 1959
News regarding Ernest Bloch in Agate Beach.