With the growing unrest in the world political situation, he emigrated to the US in 1925, but found only partial refuge there. He traveled to Palestine in 1924 but stayed only a short while.
In 1922, Achron established a publishing company for Jewish music in Berlin. In addition to the natural beauty and the haunting quality of the melody, the closeness of the violin sound to the human voice and the importance of the instrument in Jewish culture made the work a perfect match for the character and the original purpose of its tune.
Many violinists, including Heifetz, picked it up immediately, popularizing the work throughout the world. Petersburg as an encore after a special tribute concert to the Czar. The impact it had on Achron is obvious: much of his compositional output makes references to the folk elements of the Jewish people.Īchron himself premiered the Hebrew Melody in 1911 in St. Petersburg, Achron became active in the Society for Jewish Folk Music, which had been established to promote, organize, and present Jewish music. Petersburg Conservatory, which he entered in 1899 at the age of 13, he was a member of the violin class of the legendary teacher, Leopold Auer, along with Jascha Heifetz and Nathan Milstein. Joseph, who was considered a prodigy, gave extensive concert tours to all the cities of the Russian Empire following his debut in Warsaw at the age of seven.
Joseph Achron and his brother, Isidor, were musically trained from an early age by their father on the violin and the piano respectively. One particular kind was used in prayer and for study, and it can be assumed that Achron heard the Nigun that became the Hebrew Melody sung by his grandfather at the synagogue and at home. These soul-searching melodies without words poignantly re-kindled the lives of the Hasidic Jews in Eastern Europe in the early 19th and the 20th centuries. The nigunim, which are personal, improvised tunes, were passed on by the Jews from generation to generation through the centuries. (born 1886 in Lozdzieje, Poland, now Lasdjaj, Lithuania died 1943 in Hollywood, USA)
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