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M
ist Over the Lake was written in 1985 as part of the “Forest
Pictures” suite for Violin & Piano. “Mist” is a musical reflection of
a real and fantastic natural scene the composer had ventured upon. He recalls
that he wrote the piece quickly for fear of losing that inspiring but
disappearing image. It was first performed in Odessa at the Stolyarsky Music
School in 1985.
Jan
Freidlin was born in southern Siberia in 1944 and studied in Odessa where he
later taught as Head of the Music Theory department at the famous Stolyarsky
Special Music College. He currently teaches at the Levinsky Teachers College in
Tel Aviv. Jan Freidlin received the Grand Prix of Varna International Cinema
Festival (1978), the AKUM Prize (Israel) for “Miscenscens”—Sonata for
Violin & Cello (1993), 2nd Prize for “Letters from Arles” for Guitar at
the 1995 Guitar Foundation of America Competition, the Liberson Prize for Piano
Trio Nº 2 (Israel, 1995). His works were performed in the former USSR, Germany,
France ,UK, Italy, Australia, Brasil, USA. His “Sonata in Three Visions” for
Solo Harp was chosen by the International Harp Contest in Israel for the 1998
Contest as the required Israeli work.
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