{"id":115937,"date":"2024-12-04T16:43:24","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T15:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iemj.org\/publication-de-six-nouvelles-partitions-de-serge-kaufmann\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T16:24:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T14:24:22","slug":"publication-de-six-nouvelles-partitions-de-serge-kaufmann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iemj.org\/en\/publication-de-six-nouvelles-partitions-de-serge-kaufmann\/","title":{"rendered":"Release of six new scores by Serge Kaufmann"},"content":{"rendered":"

Born in 1930, Serge Kaufmann<\/a>\u00a0 studied classical music at Coll\u00e8ge Calvin in Geneva, and then at the Schola Cantorum in Paris, under the direction of Daniel Lesur. In the post-war years, the sight of a photograph \u2013 the boy in the Warsaw Ghetto \u2013 pivoted his convictions a passionate, internal questioning whose voice became ever more insistent: \u201cWhat would have happened to me if, instead of being born in Switzerland, I had been born on the other side of the border? Would I not have shared the fate of these thousands of Jewish children who didn\u2019t have the chance to grow up simply because they were born of Jewish parents or grand-parents !\u201d<\/p>\n

Inspired by this revelation, Serge Kaufmann has enriched for nearly 25 years the field of Jewish music by composing works with evocative names: Suite Yiddish<\/em>, Petite suite klezmer<\/em>, Le Maharam de Rothenbourg<\/em>, Neshama<\/em>, Kol nidr\u00e9<\/em>, Yesod<\/em>\u2026 Although never built on purely traditional melodies, his compositions have a sound that is undeniably Jewish.<\/p>\n

His vocal, orchestral and chamber music works have been the subject of several recordings. Serge Kaufmann is a Chevalier des Arts et Lettres.<\/p>\n

At the end of 2024, the IEMJ is publishing six new scores by Serge Kaufmann<\/strong>, in paper or digital format, for various instrumental and vocal ensembles.<\/p>\n

Consult and order these scores on the IEMJ store<\/strong><\/p>\n