Cover design for פרץ ל.י פון לידער: קינדער צעהן: סיואיטע-וואקאל; M. Milner (Ed.) Vokal Svite: Tsen Kinder Lieder Fun Y.L. Peretz, Far Shtime Mit Piano [”Vocal Suite: Ten Children’s Songs By Y.L. Peretz, For Voice And Piano. First edtiion.
Kiev: Kultur Lige / Melukhe Farlag, 1921. Original color wood-engraving or letterpress.. 34 x 27cm. Losses at corner margins. Sheet music for children's songs by Y.L. Peretz (1852-1915), one of the greatest figures of Jewish culture in the modern period; equally renowned for his Hebrew and Yiddish works. Cover design and illustration by Joseph Tchaikov (1888-1986), one of the foremost Jewish artists of the Russian Avant-Garde ...Joseph Tchaikov (1888-1986). Tchaikov, sculptor, painter, graphic designer, teacher and theorist, studied in Paris in 1910-1913. Was an active member in groups and societies of Jewish artists and one of the founders of "Kultur Lige" in Kiev....10 Children’s Songs of Y. L. Peretz (1921) by composer Moses Milner. Described as “childlike, but not childish” by professor Neil W. Levin who compares the composition to Robert Schumann’s Kinderszenen, the songs of this elegant cycle are deceptively simple. Ranging from a lullaby to pastoral scenes to a dance, the songs display Y. L. Peretz’s lyrical Yiddish and Milner’s unique blending of a Yiddish folksong sensibility with his sophisticated early 20th century musical language.
Reference: Illustrated Children’s Books and Periodicals in Hebrew and Yiddish, 1900-1929 in the Collections of the Library of Congress No. 39.., P. 51. Item #51-5006
Price: $600.00