Jascha Horenstein (Russian: Яша Горенштейн; 6 May 1898 – 2 April 1973) was an American conductor. Biography: Horenstein was born in Kiev, Russian Empire (now Ukraine), into a well-to-do Jewish family; his mother (Marie Ettinger) came from an Austrian rabbinical family and his father (Abraham Horenstein) was Russian. His family moved to Königsberg in 1906 and then to Vienna in 1911 and he studied at the Vienna Academy of Music starting in 1916, with Joseph Marx (music theory) and Franz Schreker (composition). In 1920, he moved to Berlin and worked as an assistant to Wilhelm Furtwäng… read more
Jascha Horenstein (Russian: Яша Горенштейн; 6 May 1898 – 2 April 1973) was an American conductor. Biography: Horenstein was born in Kiev, Russian Empire (now Ukraine), into a well-to-do Jewish family; his mother (Marie Ettinger) came from an Austrian rabbinical family and his father (Abraham… read more
Jascha Horenstein (Russian: Яша Горенштейн; 6 May 1898 – 2 April 1973) was an American conductor. Biography: Horenstein was born in Kiev, Russian Empire (now Ukraine), into a well-to-do Jewish family; his mother (Marie Ettinger) came from an Austrian rabbinical family and his father (Abraham Horenstein) was Russian. His family moved to Königsberg in 1906 and the… read more