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Sergiu Natra (12 April 1924 – 23 February 2021) was an Israeli composer of classical music.[1]

Sergiu Natra
Sergiu Natra

Among Natra's creations: Symphony in Red, Blue, Yellow and Green, Horizons Symphony, Invincible Symphony, Tongues of Fire Symphony, Memories Symphony, Future In The Past symphony, The Meaning Of Life Symphony, Earth and Water Symphony, 2020 Symphony, Secrets Symphony, Variations for Piano and Symphony orchestra, Song of Deborah for symphony orchestra and voice, Sacred Service for symphony orchestra.

He was particularly known for his harp compositions, including "Music for Violin and Harp", "Sonatina for Harp", "Prayer for Harp", "Divertimento for Harp flute and Strings orchestra", "Music for Nicanor", "Commentaires Sentimentaux", "Ode To The Harp" and "Trio in One Movement no. 3".[citation needed]


Life and work


Natra was born in Romania as Sergiu Nadler in April 1924 into a Jewish family with Austrian, German and Czech origins. As a child he studied piano and took up music studies in 1932. He continued his studies at the Jewish conservatory until 1942, and graduated from the Music Academy of Bucharest in 1954.[2] He studied, among others, theory, composition and orchestration with Leon Klepper and modern music with Mihail Andricu.[citation needed]

He began composing at an early age and his symphony orchestra composition "March and Choral" earned him the status of a modernist in Romania. The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra performed this work in 1947 under the direction of Edward Lindenberg. Natra received many composition awards in composing classical music, including for creations composed at the age of 19 - "March and Choral" and "Divertimento in ancient style", George Enescu award for composition in 1945 and for creations composed at the age of 25 including "Suite for symphony orchestra" in 1951 when he received the National Prize for Composition.[citation needed]

Natra Sergiu and his family, Holocaust survivors and who were considered part of the "elite", suffered from persecution, forced labor, prison time and confiscation of all their properties.[citation needed] Some of the composer's music creations were not preserved and destroyed.[citation needed]

In 1961, Natra and his wife, Sonia, a sculptor and multidisciplinary artist, emigrated to Israel.[1] A year later, conducted by Sergiu Comissiona, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra performed the "Horizons Symphony for symphony string orchestra", which was the last piece he had written in Romania, and the "Music for violin and harp", performed by the violinist Miriam Fried and the French harpist Françoise Netter.[citation needed]

Besides composing music, professor Natra taught music, including at Tel Aviv University, where he taught music of the 20th century, composition, and analysis of forms.[citation needed] He was a professor at the Music Academy in the Tel Aviv University (now the Buchmann-Mehta School Of Music) until 1985.[citation needed]

Natra and his wife Sonia, had two sons, Danny and Gabi.[3] He died in February 2021 at the age of 96.[4]


Main works


Natra is a composer with a clear European orientation, who has a clear personal stamp and a particular writing style with melodic flow, atonal language, polyphonic idea, gradual development and shaping of motive material.[citation needed] He makes use of a rich palette of sound-colors, unusual instrumental combinations, central registers of instruments (and voices), playing techniques which are natural and comfortable and succeed in producing optimal sound, texts in a new language, with its fresh rhythms and sonorities.[citation needed]

Most of the composers scores were published by NATRA PUBLICATIONS, some by IMI in Tel Aviv[5] and some by Harposphere in Paris.[6] Part of the composers scores, the respective recordings, books and articles are found also in libraries, such as, Beit Ariela Public Library and Cultural Center (Israel),[7] The National Library of Israel,[8] The library of Congress (USA)[9] and The Harold B. Lee Library (USA).[10]

The main source of the list is the composer's documentation and archive. Additional references are found in:.[11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43] [44]


References


  1. Toeplitz, Uri & Seter, Ronit (2001). "Natra, Sergiu [Nadler, Serge]". In Sadie, Stanley & Tyrrell, John (eds.). The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2nd ed.). London: Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-56159-239-5. ‎ (Print version: Sadie, Stanley (ed.), The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Macmillan, 1980, Vol. 13 p. 76. ISBN 0-333-23111-2)
  2. Cummings, David (ed.), "Natra, Sergiu", International Who's Who in Classical Music, Routledge, 2000, p. 261. ISBN 0-948875-53-4
  3. Who's Who in Israel and Jewish Personalities from All Over the World, Bronfman, Ben Itzhak (ed.) 1985 (p. 237)
  4. ISRAELI COMPOSER DIES, AT 96
  5. The Israel Music Institute
  6. Harposphere Paris
  7. Beit Ariela Public Library
  8. The National Library of Israel
  9. The Library of Congress
  10. The Harold B. Lee Library
  11. A Descriptive Bibliography of Art Music by Israeli Composers, Alice Tischler, 1988 (p.172-175), 2011
  12. Die Musik Israels, Max Brod, 1976 (p.106-108, 76, 78, 83, 84, 134, 135, 136, 138, 140, 141)
  13. Contemporary Music In Europe, Paul Henry and Broder Nathan, 1965 (p. 295)
  14. Dictionary of 20th century music, John Vinton, 1974 (p. 507)
  15. Solo vocal works on Jewish themes: a bibliography of Jewish composers, Kenneth Jaffe, 2011 (p. 131, 224, 227, 234, 287, 321, 327, 339, 375, 381, 383, 397)
  16. Listening guide to Israeli works, Dalia Golomb, Ben-Zion Orgad, 1985 (p. 174)
  17. Encyclopedia Judaica, Keter Publications, 1971
  18. The sound of the harp in the holy land, The international harp contest in Israel, William Y Elias, 2002
  19. Tempus fugit- writings about music and musicians, Ruth Guttman Ben Zwi, 2004 (p.368 and others)
  20. Dancing Jewish: Jewish Identity in American Modern and Postmodern Dance, Rebecca Rossen, 2014 (p. 81, 82, 307)
  21. The Music of Israel: From the Biblical Era to Modern Times, Peter Gradenwitz, 1996 (p. 273, 389, 410)
  22. Great Jews in Music, Darryl Lyman, 1986 (p. 309)
  23. Aspects of Music in Israel: A Series of Articles Published on the Occasion of the ISCM World Music Days, Israel, 1980 (p. 22, 25)
  24. Beyond the Baton : What Every Conductor Needs to Know: What Every Conductor ..., Diane Wittry Music Director Allentown and Norwalk Symphony Orchestras, 2007 (p. 275)
  25. Timbral Diversity: An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Solo Works for the Tenor Trombone Containing Extended Techniques, James Max Adams, 2011 (p. 165)
  26. Visions of reform: Congregation Emanu-El and the Jews of San Francisco, 1849–1999, Fred Rosenbaum (p. 275)
  27. Contemporary Israeli music: its sources and stylistic development, Zvi Keren, 1980 (p. 97)
  28. Scholars' guide to Washington, D.C., for audio resources: sound recordings in the arts, humanities, and social, physical, and life sciences, James R. Heintze, Zdeněk V. David, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 1985 (p. 262)
  29. Music in Jewish History and Culture, Emanuel Rubin, John H. Baron, 2006 (p. 340)
  30. Music in Education, Macmillan Journals Limited, 1974 (p. 191, 269)
  31. The Jewish lists: physicists and generals, actors and writers, and hundreds of other lists of accomplished Jews, Martin Harry Greenberg, 1979 (p. 146, 281)
  32. Harps and harpists, Roslyn Rensch, 2007 (p. 230, 234, 252)
  33. International Music Guide, Derek Elley, 1978
  34. Who's who in World Jewry, Harry Schneiderman, Itzhak J. Carmin, 1972 (p. 648)
  35. International Who's who in Music and Musicians' Directory, 1998 (p. 401)
  36. Who's who in the Middle East and North Africa, 1978 (p. 901)
  37. Encyclopaedia Judaica, Fred Skolnik, Michael Berenbaum, 2007 (p. 32)
  38. Cello Music Since 1960: A Bibliography of Solo, Chamber & Orchestral Works for Solo Cellist, Donald Homuth, 1994 (p. 190)
  39. Jüdische Musik?: Fremdbilder, Eigenbilder, Eckhard John, Heidy Zimmermann, 2004 (p. 274)
  40. International Directory of Contemporary Music: Instrumentation, 2000 (pp. 322, 469)
  41. Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart- allgemeine Enzyklopädie der Musik, Friedrich Blume, 1979 (p. 851, 1335)
  42. Geschichte der Klaviermusik. 2, Peter Hollfelder, 1989 (p. 1344)
  43. Neue Musik in Düsseldorf seit 1945: ein Beitrag zur Musikgeschichte und zum Musikleben der Stadt, Hans Hubert Schieffer, Hermann-Josef Müller..., 1998 (p. 159)
  44. World Harp Congress Board of directors




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