Biography
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Born
1879
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Died
1955 (aged 76)
Grigori Abramowitsch Kerin (Russian Григорий Абрамович Крейн) was a Russian composer.
Krein studied in Moscow with Jan Hřímalý, Paul Juon and Reinhold Glière and from 1905 to 1908 with Max Reger in Leipzig. From 1913 he belonged, like his brother Alexander, to the Moscow department of the Society for Jewish Folk Music. He worked as a violin and theory teacher in Moscow. From 1926 to 1934 he lived with his son Julian in Vienna, Paris and Berlin, then again in Moscow and from 1941 to 1943 in Tashkent.
Kerin composed a symphony, a violin concerto, a Hebrew rhapsody, the symphonic poem Saul and David, a concert fantasy for violin and orchestra, three symphonic episodes, four songs without words and a string quartet.
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