Mark Warshawsky (1845 - 1907) Russie Mark Markovich Warshavsky (Russian: Марк Маркович Варшавский, Yiddish: מאַרק ו93;אַרשאַווסקי; born in Odessa 1848, died in Kiev, 1907) was a Yiddish-speaking folk poet and composer from the Russian Empire.
He graduated from the Law school of Kiev University and practiced law in Kiev. By the influence of Abraham Goldfaden Warshawsky started to write songs and sing them in his circle of friends accompanied by a fortepiano. He did not take seriously his musical work and never recorded those songs, relying on his memory. Many of his works in this way were spread throughout the Jewish community of the Ukrainian region of the Russian Empire and most of them were simply adopted as folk songs. (Retracter)...(lire la suite)
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