
Moses Pergament: ”A Wagner of the Jews”
Mon, May 23
|Helsinki
Chamber works by Moses Pergament. Musicians from Helsinki Chamber Orchestra, James Kahane, conductor, Tuuli Lindeberg, soprano, Tomas Nuñez-Garcés, cello, Sebastian Silén, violin, Iryna Gorkun-Silén, flute, Martin Malmgren, piano.


Time & Place / Aika ja paikka
May 23, 2022, 7:00 PM
Helsinki, Ritarikatu 1, 00170 Helsinki, Finland
Details / Lisätietoja
Moses Pergament is a forgotten oddity in Finland’s musical history. In spite of a publicly acclaimed composition concert debut in 1914 in Helsinki, his colourful and cosmopolitan music has mostly remained unperformed in his country of origin. One explanation is that Pergament during his lifetime had to fight actively against the strong forces of antisemitism; after having settled in Sweden in 1915, it would still take him several decades before he was accepted in the Society of Swedish Composers, and when Jean Sibelius discusses Pergament’s debut concert in his diary entries, he expresses himself unabashedly antisemitically. When the Swedish composer and music critic Wilhelm Peterson-Berger called Pergament a “foreign parasite” in an interview, Pergament traveled to Peterson-Berger’s home and delivered him a slap in the face that made him famous overnight – though not as a composer. As he was not a native Swede, and in addition to that was…
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