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BLOCH, Ernest

Ernst Bloch, photographed in January 1956

Born in Geneva, July 24, 1880
Died in Portland, OR, July 15, 1959

  • Swiss-born Jewish musician Ernest Bloch worked as composer, conductor and teacher both in Europe and America. He eventually became a naturalized American citizen and founding director of the Cleveland Institute of Music.1
  • In 1952 Bloch retired to Agate Beach, Oregon,2 where he composed, and enjoyed his hobbies of photography, mushroom collecting, and polishing agates.3

Short biography from the Oregon Encyclopedia

Sources

  1. David Z. Kushner, “Bloch, Ernest,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed July 31, 2019, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000003287.
  2. “About,” Ernest Bloch Legacy, accessed July 31, 2019, http://www.ernestbloch.org/.
  3. David Z. Kushner, “Bloch, Ernest,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed July 31, 2019, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000003287.

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