Education
Less than a year later, he chose to return to China, where he entered the world of Shanghai"s academia and, together with other highly qualified Jewish musicians (ie, Alfred Wittenberg, Walter Joachim, Arrigo Foa, etc), who had fled the Russian pogroms and revolution, trained a number of young Chinese musicians in classical music, who in turn became leading musicians in contemporary China.
Career
Born into a Mountain Jewish family, he was sent for medical studies to Zürich. After the October Revolution, in 1917, which made further studies in Europe impossible, his family sent him to the United States. Between 1918 and 1947, he worked to create a synthesis of Chinese musical elements and Western techniques of orchestral composition.
In 1947, he moved to the United States of America, where he already had spent three years in the mid-1920s.
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